Fire Suppression
What is Fire Suppression?
Systems designed to detect and extinguish fires in facilities, particularly data centers, using methods that minimize damage to equipment and data.
Terms that appear alongside fire suppression
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as fire suppression. The number is how many controls name both.
- redundancy 3 shared controls
- environmental monitoring 3 shared controls
- disruption 2 shared controls
- iso 22301 2 shared controls
- soc 2 2 shared controls
- nist 2 shared controls
- change management 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern fire suppression
What the standards actually require on fire suppression
Requirements naming fire suppression across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Fire growth and spread need to be checked by a system that acts on its own, sized against the compartment it protects, the building's use, the hazard involved and the building's height (E1P4).
australia-national-construction-code-2025-volume-one-building-code-of-australia-class-2-to-9-buildings::E1P4 · E1P4 Automatic fire suppression systems →Management considers water detectors under raised floors and in ceilings, where leaks from fire suppression, break rooms, restrooms and HVAC are not easily visible, and automated mechanisms commensurate with risk that detect water near IT infrastructure and al...
ffiec-it-examination-handbook::AIO-V.D.3 · V.D.3 Water (Architecture, Infrastructure, and Operations) →Employ and maintain fire suppression and detection devices independent of energy source.
PE-13 · Fire Protection →Employ and maintain fire suppression and detection devices independent of energy source.
PE-13 · Fire Protection →For items carried in the cargo compartment, a policy and procedures are recommended that include a specific safety risk assessment considering, as a minimum, the fire risk of the items and the compartment's fire suppression capability (ORG 3.4.1).
iata-operational-safety-audit-iosa-standards-manual::ORG 3.4 · ORG 3.4 Specific Risk Assessments →Control: physical security for equipment rooms that house telecommunications facilities used for the telecommunications business should be designed, built and put in place. Purpose: to secure equipment rooms.
iso-iec-27011-2024::7.16 · TEL: Securing telecommunications equipment room →Questions people ask about fire suppression
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