Data center security & compliance

Optimal efficiency

Efficiency drives down overhead, delivering economic as well as environmental benefits. Iron Mountain offers 99.999% uptime and a full range of third-party data center standards. However, we see data center compliance as a by-product of a culture of continuous improvement, and this drives ever more efficient design and operation.

Globally, Iron Mountain is known as the trusted guardian of the assets of more than 230,000 customers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 1000 companies. Building on that reputation, Iron Mountain Data Centers has established a  proven commitment to the core principles of safety and security, and a reputation for providing the highest level of asset protection and customer engagement in the industry. Our highly secured data centers are purpose built, with an integrated multi-layered physical and logical security approach that is both responsive to customer requirements and meets the most stringent internationally recognized third party certifications.

We have an unrivaled reputation in the industry for fostering communication and collaboration among our employees, partners, and customers, to always design and operate best in class security solutions and service.  Our standardized processes, procedures and culture of continuous improvement ensure that we apply the highest principles of loss prevention and safety, risk mitigation, operational security and incident management.

Our mission is to continuously enhance our business value and create a competitive, progressive advantage with well-aligned security and safety teams in conjunction with state of the art technology and systems.

Iron Mountain has the most comprehensive compliance program in the colocation industry. We go above and beyond to ensure the highest national and regional data center security standards possible, with continuous improvement in design, operation, security, and efficiency.

We are the only colocation provider to have global data center certification for business continuity (ISO 22301), information security (ISO 27001), energy management (ISO 50001), environmental management (ISO 14001), and quality management (ISO 9001). Iron Mountain is also the first data center in the United States to achieve DCOS Maturity Level 3, at our VA-2 data center in Virginia.

We have a coordinated approach to global compliance, and all customers receive set levels of compliance across our portfolio, with additional region-specific certifications as needed.