TECHNOLOGY
“ Society ’ s reliance on technology highlights the dependence both people and organisations have on the data centre industry ”
SHAWN BURKE GLOBAL CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER , SUNGARD AVAILABILITY SERVICES
security , industrial control systems ( ICS ), hardware- and software solutions , is expected to grow to as much as $ 24.41 billion for the period between 2017 and 2023 - an estimation made before the pandemic threw everything into overdrive .
Still , some experts believe that it doesn ’ t matter how much money you throw at a problem if you go about solving that problem in an ineffectual way . “ If you look at the challenges of securing data centres and cloud computing , the focus and investments appear completely out of sync ,” remarks Trevor Dearing , EMEA Director of Technology at Illumio , a Silicon Valley cybersecurity firm specialising in zero trust segmentation . According to Dearing , despite the fact that “ almost 80 % of the computing traffic never actually leaves the data centre , the bulk of attention is placed on protecting the 20 % that does .”
Now , there ’ s no disputing that external data is potentially exposed to a greater level of threat , may arrive from an unknown source , and most importantly exists outside the control and visibility of the security operator - which makes it a high source of risk nonetheless . But guarding your country ’ s borders against axe wielding psychopaths ( or , say , people infected with COVID-19 ) and just assuming that there aren ’ t any
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