Security News > 2024 > July > Release the hounds! Securing datacenters may soon need sniffer dogs
Sniffer dogs may soon become a useful means of improving physical security in datacenters, as increasing numbers of people are adopting implants like NFC chips that have the potential to enable novel attacks on access control tools.
So says Len Noe, tech evangelist at identity management vendor CyberArk. Noe told The Register he has ten implants - passive devices that are observable with a full body X-ray, but invisible to most security scanners.
Noe explained he's acquired swipe cards used to access controlled premises, cloned them in his implants, and successfully entered buildings by just waving his hands over card readers.
He thinks dogs should be considered because attackers who access datacenters using implants would probably walk away scot-free.
Noe told The Register that datacenter staff would probably notice an implant-packing attacker before they access sensitive areas, but would then struggle to find grounds for prosecution because implants aren't easily detectable - and even if they were the information they contain is considered medical data and is therefore subject to privacy laws in many jurisdictions.
Noe thinks plenty of other attacks could be mounted using implants.