NETWORKING sufficiently air gapped or secured behind firewalls and DMZ ' s , they can be easy prey to hackers and malware attackers , essentially attacking the data centre through its own critical infrastructure .”
Darren Watkins , a Managing Director at Virtus Data Centres , was also willing to talk to me about the weaknesses of a modern data centre , although , understandably , he politely refused to give me a step-by-step plan for knocking out one of his facilities . “ From a holistic security point of view , the biggest security weakness has to be the security associated with access to the data that is held or being generated within the data centre ,” he muses , noting that “ This comprises firewalls , software and network security aspects that are the responsibility of the end customer .” Given that some major carrier hotels can host hundreds of different customers of different sizes , the odds that one of them isn ’ t doing their due diligence with regard to security are troublingly high . Just look at the SolarWinds attack last year , when Russian hackers used access to the company ’ s Orion software to distribute
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