The Secured Area (SA) facility is a compound with physical and electromagnetic protections. The SA hosts classified information in both paper and electronic format. To support the storage of electronic data, it hosts classified IT networks. It also hosts a videoconferencing capability.
The SA facility is located in Brussels, at EU Commission and the European Parliament premises.
The Secured Area consist in:
— the outer part (the shield),
— the inner part (systems and components protected by the shield).
The outer and inner parts pertain to fundamentally distinct and different trades. The outer part is mostly classical engineering (Faraday shield and direct sub-systems such as shielded airlocks, ventilation, fire detection and alarm, etc), whereas the inner part is mostly related to information technologies (ICT sytems).
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