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Environmental controls

Environmental controls

- We spend so much time talking about configuring our firewalls and installing a good operating system and making sure our hard drives work and double checking our network connections that we forget something really, really important. And that is the environment upon which your computers and your networks operate. Now when I'm talking about the environment, I'm talking about the room temperatures and how much dust there is and the quality electricity and all that type of stuff. And I'm going to dump this all into this one episode that I'm calling environmental controls. So the first rule I want to talk about when it comes to environmental controls is make sure that you're compliant with your local government or federal government's regulations. There's going to be all kinds of regulations in terms of what are proper temperatures you can work at, what are acceptable humidities, things like that. Here in the United…

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