MAHESH THIAGARAJAN
DESIGN & BUILD
MAHESH THIAGARAJAN
TITLE: EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
COMPANY: ORACLE
INDUSTRY: TECHNOLOGY AND AI
Mahesh oversees core infrastructure services including compute, networking, storage, hardware, data centres, Oracle Linux and supply chain operations.
And once inside a wireless vector, an adversary may bypass traditional perimeter defences entirely.
For AI-driven data centres, facilities that represent some of the most strategically valuable digital infrastructure on the planet, the implications are significant. These data centres are not simply enterprise assets. They are geopolitical assets.
A threat long understood by government and defence Government intelligence communities, military organisations and national law enforcement agencies have understood the wireless threat landscape for decades.
Secure facilities such as SCIFs, SAPFs, and military data centres have long deployed wireless airspace monitoring systems to detect and neutralise unauthorised emitters and RF-based attacks. Airspace cybersecurity has been treated as a foundational security layer alongside physical security and network defence.
In high-security government environments, wireless signals are not ignored, they are continuously monitored, classified and controlled. Until recently, most commercial data centres did not adopt this model.
AI data centres: A new category of target AI data centres operate at unprecedented scale. They concentrate massive compute density, proprietary model weights, sensitive training datasets, and intellectual property that may represent billions of dollars in value.
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