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spreading rapidly throughout the industry , this often feels more like an attempt by operators “ to assure their customers data is being kept in a highly secure environment ,” rather than an entirely outcome-driven approach . “ Should the worst happen , whether that be a cyber-attack , natural disaster , or fire , having backups stored in a different location will ensure the organisation can recover quickly , avoiding long-term downtime and service outages , and can continue working , even if it is in a limited capacity , until the recovery effort is complete ,” Burke explains .
Spreading your assets across a number of disaster recovery sites isn ’ t a catchall solution , however . “ Ultimately , security must be made as dynamic as the computing you are trying to protect ,” says Dearing , “ with security systems that evolve to mirror innovation and recalibrate with changes or attacks . Combined , these strategies , alongside employing segmentation as a security solution , will reduce the attack surface of data centres and cloud computing .”
More Data to Protect “ Regardless of industry , organisations are - on average - managing 10 times more data than they did five years ago - from 1.45 petabytes in 2016 to 14.6 petabytes in 2021 ,” says Elizabeth Green , a cybersecurity and resilience specialist at Dell Technologies . She adds that a recent Dell Technologies report found that 82 % of respondents were of the mind that their existing data protection strategies wouldn ’ t be enough to safeguard them against the changing threat landscape . “ More than a third of organisations worldwide have experienced a ransomware attack or breach that blocked access to systems or data in the previous 12 months ,” says Green . “ It ’ s clear that improving organisational cyber security is of paramount importance .”
So , organisational , application , and infrastructural cybersecurity all need to be improved to keep data centres safe . How to do this exactly ( somewhat predictably in such an ever-changing field ) differs depending on who you ask .
Zero Trust and Microsegmentation If you ask Dearing , we need to shake up the ways in which we actually make data centres and the hardware that goes inside them . “ It is more effective to build
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