Your data is your organization’s identity and its vital fuel source. It is critical that you take precautions to secure your data center in order to protect your organization from external threats. This includes installing proper safeguards on your physical infrastructures, such as monitoring temperature and humidity, ensuring that high-voltage supplies have enough insulation and other similar steps. Additional safeguards include installing firewalls, implementing biometric authentication, and restricting server access.
Nowadays, every type of data hosting is becoming more complex, with features such as redundancy, backup, cloud hosting, on-premises hosting, data sharing with other vendors, or apps needing extra data owner services and sync between multiple services, among others.
Businesses must store and manage sensitive data for their consumers and clients. To secure business information, data center security is critical to every organization’s risk management strategy. The zero trust security paradigm, which limits access and permissions to the absolute minimum required by business goals, should be implemented to ensure data center safety.
As a security leader, the protection of your company’s and customers’ data must be your first priority. Personal, sensitive, and financial information is often stored in data centers. This data is about the data center’s customers, stakeholders, and workers. Criminals may take advantage of this information, which can cost firms millions of dollars to investigate and correct. The damage is not just monetary; it may also significantly impact your company’s reputation.
The next-generation data center may meet its data processing and storage requirements by combining on-premises technology with public and private cloud environments. This is the technique via which a NewGen data center may achieve its requirements.
The security standards that apply to your firm will be determined by the degree of secure data center architecture on which it is based. If your business uses the services of an external cloud service provider for data management and storage, you are using a public cloud data center. Despite legitimate concerns about data security, organizations continue to retain ties with these sorts of service providers (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure).
Automation and artificial intelligence must be integrated into the hybrid data center and cloud computing security architecture in order to protect this infrastructure on a large scale. This is one of the requirements that must be satisfied in order for the hybrid security architecture to be accurately built and implemented.
This architecture should be controlled from a single console that gives total visibility and control over the security of all environments, whether hosted on-premises or in the cloud. Also, it should be administered from a single console.
CheckPoint, Cisco Meraki, SonicWall, and Sophos are just a handful of the many hardware vendors that provide a hybrid data center security solution as part of their product offerings.
These solutions enable an organization to enjoy all of the advantages of a hybrid data center while maintaining all of the security controls that it now uses, which is made possible by the hybrid data center itself. To put it another way, the hybrid data center enables the firm to do so. They accomplish this goal by developing a centralized management system for the security regulations and preventive measures that are executed throughout an entire company’s data center. This gives them the ability to monitor and oversee all of these rules and processes from a single spot. This includes assets that are located both on a company’s own premises and on the cloud.
System admins, third-party vendors, and hardware technicians must be trained on how to properly manage their physical access and data center visits, credentials, as well as the risks that may come from even minor mistakes. CISO and senior management must provide this training to their employees. The appearance of threats, how they function, and which attack surfaces are most likely to draw the attention of malicious actors must all be covered in education. Educational opportunities are one of the most effective ways to reduce human-based risks.
Aside from the users, system admins, third-party vendors, hands & feet support team members, hardware technicians, etc., data centers may provide threats due to poorly implemented networks, lack of verification, or insufficient security procedures. Because hackers are always seeking new methods to launch attacks, you must only utilize the most modern security protocols and technology. A data center may keep one step ahead of the most recent dangers by automatically updating all of its software, including any software that uses threat information.
To overcome all data center physical and logical security, all businesses that offer data center services and have numerous client data housed and controlled by data center service providers must develop a zero-trust architecture.
Organizations can create and maintain a reliable digital infrastructure with the help of Fulcrum’s Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering. Our clients gain from our comprehensive infrastructure support, qualified professionals providing round-the-clock service, and strong OEM technology alliances.
Author: Vaibhav Tare is a CISO & Head of Cloud Infrastructure at Fulcrum Digital with over 27 years of cybersecurity, cloud, enterprise data center infrastructure experience. In his role, he advises customers, partners, ISVs, and OEMs on best practices for developing cybersecurity, data center and cloud management strategies and architecting and designing data center modernization blueprints with software defined infrastructure projects.
