Define: "Air-gapped" in Business
Catastrophic fiscal burn
"The only secure system. Put the server in a closet and cut the Ethernet cord."
A network security measure where a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks.
What does "Air-gapped" actually mean?
"The only way to keep the developers from breaking the production environment."
"Due to strict compliance requirements, the backup servers must remain completely air-gapped."
"We air-gapped the backup server, which worked brilliantly until someone plugged a rogue USB fan into it and took down the network."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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