What we’re about
Data center security is a set of policies, precautions, and practices designed to protect facilities and their assets from attacks and unauthorized access. The main goal of data center security is to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of housed data and services.
Data center security requires an admin to prepare for and prevent a range of security incidents, including:
Various physical threats (unauthorized access to premises, theft of hardware, vandalism, sabotage, terrorist acts, etc.).
Natural disasters (earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, wildfires, etc.).
Various cybersecurity threats (e.g., data breaches, hacking attempts, DDoS attacks, viruses, ransomware, probing, man-in-the-middle attacks, phishing, SQL injections, etc.)
Fire-related incidents (electrical fires, equipment overheating, power surges, etc.).
Region-wide and local power outages.
Unauthorized use of computing resources.
Data leakage and corruption incidents.
Various human errors (accidental data deletion, misconfigurations, operational mistakes, etc.).
Different insider threat scenarios.
Data exfiltration attempts (either in person or virtually).
Preventing all these threats is no easy task, which is why data center security has three critical needs:
Clear and complete visibility of users, devices, networks, applications, workloads, and processes.
High levels of physical and digital segmentation to reduce the scope of unfortunate and malicious incidents.
A well-rounded threat protection strategy that accounts for all possible physical and virtual risks to the facility.