Security for the Most Valuable Room in Your Company, from the Fence Line to the GPU Fabric.
A GB300 rack is a seven-figure asset holding your model weights and your customers' data. We assess what you have, design the physical, network and operational controls an AI facility needs, implement and deploy them, and take you through certification — SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53/171, TIA-942 and Uptime — with evidence auditors accept.
Who This Is For
- Owners of a new private cluster who need security designed in before the first rack lands
- Operators of an existing hall adding GPU rows and discovering the controls no longer fit
- Companies whose customers or regulators are asking for SOC 2, ISO 27001 or NIST evidence this year
- Colo tenants who need cage-level security their landlord does not provide
- Government and defence programs preparing for FedRAMP, CMMC or IL-level assessments
What's Included
Assessment
Threat model for the facility and workload, gap analysis against the frameworks you need, penetration test of management networks, physical walk-through, and a risk register ranked by exposure.
Physical Security Design
Perimeter and site controls, mantraps, biometric and badge access, per-cage and per-rack locking, CCTV coverage with retention, visitor and vendor escort procedures, loading-dock and media handling.
Network and Fabric Security
Segmentation of GPU, storage, management and out-of-band networks; zero-trust access to BMCs and switches; InfiniBand partition keys and Spectrum-X VXLAN isolation; encrypted interconnect to other sites.
Platform and Data Controls
Confidential-computing options on Blackwell-class GPUs, model-weight and dataset encryption at rest, key management, signed images and firmware attestation, audit logging to an immutable store.
Supply-Chain Assurance
Vetted sourcing through authorised channels, chain-of-custody records from distributor to rack, tamper-evident delivery, firmware verification on arrival, counterfeit screening for optics and components.
Implementation and Deployment
Install and configure the physical, network and platform controls designed above — with the facility live where required — and run acceptance tests against the control set.
Certification
Control narratives, policies and evidence packages mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53/171, TIA-942 rating and Uptime tier; auditor coordination and remediation until the report is issued.
Ongoing Assurance
Quarterly control testing, annual penetration test, continuous log review from our NOC, and change management that keeps the certificate valid between audits.
Reference Specifications
Starting points. Every engagement is engineered to the workload, site and budget in front of us.
| Frameworks | SOC 2 Type I/II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, NIST SP 800-53 and 800-171, TIA-942 Rated 3/4, Uptime Tier III/IV; HIPAA and PCI DSS mapping where workloads require |
|---|---|
| Physical | Mantraps, multi-factor access (badge + biometric), per-cage CCTV at 90-day retention, rack-level electronic locks, intrusion detection, manned post options |
| Network | Separate GPU, storage, management and OOB networks; zero-trust gateway for BMC/switch access; IB partition keys; VXLAN/EVPN segmentation; MACsec on inter-hall links |
| Platform | NVIDIA confidential computing where supported, LUKS/TPM-backed disk encryption, HSM or cloud KMS key management, signed container images, firmware attestation |
| Monitoring | SIEM integration (Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk or Wazuh), immutable audit log store, DCIM and BMS alarms correlated with security events |
| Testing | External and internal penetration tests, physical red-team option, tabletop exercises, quarterly control validation |
| Deliverables | Risk register, security architecture, control matrix, policies and procedures, as-built drawings, evidence package, auditor report |
How We Deliver
- 1
Assessment
Weeks 1–3Threat model, framework gap analysis, penetration test, physical walk-through. Output: risk register and prioritised roadmap.
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Design
Weeks 3–6Physical, network and platform security architecture with a control matrix mapped to the target frameworks; policy set drafted.
- 3
Implementation
Weeks 6–12Access control, CCTV, segmentation, zero-trust access, encryption and logging installed and configured; procedures rolled out to staff.
- 4
Deployment and Validation
Weeks 12–14Acceptance testing of every control, retest of findings, evidence collection begins.
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Certification
Weeks 14–20Auditor engagement, observation period for Type II where applicable, remediation, report issued.
Questions We Get Asked
We're in a colo. Isn't security the landlord's problem?
The landlord secures the building to their standard and stops at your cage door. Everything inside — cage access, rack locks, management-network isolation, encryption, logging — is yours, and auditors will ask you for it, not them.
Which certification should we go for first?
If customers are asking, SOC 2 Type II is usually the one they mean. ISO 27001 travels better internationally. For US government work the path is NIST 800-171 then CMMC or FedRAMP. The assessment phase settles this with you against who is actually asking.
Can you secure a cluster you didn't build?
Yes — most security engagements start with an existing facility. The assessment is designed for exactly that, and the roadmap it produces is phased so the hall stays in production while controls are added.
How is GPU fabric security different from a normal network?
InfiniBand and RoCE fabrics bypass the kernel and much of the usual security tooling. Isolation has to be done at the fabric level — partition keys, VXLAN segmentation, controlled access to the subnet manager and switch OS — and that's rarely in a general IT security team's experience.
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