NETWORK AND CYBERSECURITY
Data Centre Magazine explores the challenges facing industry operators , and the strategies that will help them stay secure
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The global shift towards cloud network architecture and data centre colocation as a service has laid considerable challenges at the feet of data centre operators in the last few years . Traditional security systems that use firewalls to keep threats at bay are no longer sufficient . “ Think of a castle in a medieval city . To protect it from the outside world , you ’ d have this wall that over time would get taller and thicker ,” explained Vladimir Gotsev , Director of Engineering at tech firm Netrix , in a recent interview with the Chicago Business Journal . “ That was pretty effective as long as everyone lived inside the castle .”
Today , of course , the acceleration of cloud-based data centres , coupled with the accelerated growth of the internet of things ( IoT ), has changed all that . Companies are increasingly choosing to store sensitive and proprietary information remotely , in data centres operated by third parties . These third parties are then responsible for safeguarding this valuable information , and today the number of ways for malicious actors to gain access to that information is increasing exponentially . 2019 was a record-breaking year for both mega breaches and smaller scale hacks . In the first half of the year alone there were more than
AUGUST 2020