Threats Can Be Anywhere: Modernise Your Data Centre Security
28th April 2020
Did you know? IT organisation spend 76% of their attention on securing their data centre
Virtualisation, cloud, and software-defined networking are redefining the modern data centre. There is a huge influx of data, from big data analytics and new types of applications. Workloads are even more dynamic than before, spanning across multiple physical data centre locations and across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. This spread of data creates a “new” perimeter outside of your traditional data centre premises and can increase data theft opportunities. You could thus be challenged with where and how to secure your data centre.
Modern Data Centres Need a New Approach to Security
Data centres are evolving and are no longer confined to traditional set-up. In fact, some analysts predict that by 2022, 50 percent of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed outside a traditional, centralised data centre or cloud. Ensuring Security can be challenging as Security teams spend 76% of their time securing the data centre and to make it more challenging 25% of global security decision makers say staff shortages are a major challenge, and they struggle to find staff with the right skills. To address the data centre security needs, IDC advocates that securing your data centre can a be three-fold methodology covering visibility, reducing attack surface through segmentation and preventing threats.
Challenges of securing data everywhere
The challenge with securing data is that you need to have security EVERYWHERE, not just at the perimeter. Attackers know that your data is now highly distributed, and that you may be having a harder time keeping track of it. They know that this provides them with another layer of obfuscation and opportunity for carrying out theft.
Today’s security must therefore be pervasive – built in and integrated across the network, cloud, applications, and endpoints. This makes it harder for attackers to slip through the cracks and take advantage of the distributed nature of computing.
Why Choose Cisco Secure Data Centre Solution?
Cisco is working hard to make your data centre is more agile and automated – enabling you to extend workloads beyond the perimeter for new applications that require computing to be performed closer to the user experience.
The Cisco Secure Data Centre Solution provides an integrated security architecture that addresses three critical needs of the modern data centre around Visibility, Segmentation and Threat protection. The Cisco Secure Data Centre Solution is a validated systems-level solution for highly secure data centres, delivering:
- Operational efficiency from automated provisioning and flexible, integrated security
- Advanced threat protection to stay up to date, informed, and secure
- Improved resiliency to enable data center availability and secure services
Cisco Secure Data Centre Components
Enabling a decentralised data centre environment requires a security strategy that spans three important areas: visibility, segmentation, and threat protection.
- Visibility – If you can’t see it, you can’t secure it. That’s why Cisco offers in-depth network and threat visibility in any data centre and across any cloud.
- Segmentation – Segmenting your network reduces your attack surface. It can prevent attackers from moving laterally across the network, and block legitimate users from accessing restricted resources.
- Threat Protection – By now we all know that threat protection is a process, not a single product. Cisco’s data centre protection consists of various levels of threat sensors to prevent attackers from stealing data or disrupting operations.
The truth is that in today’s dynamic environment, you may not always know exactly where everything is at all times. But with the right mix of tools and intelligence, you don’t have to know. Instead, you can rest assured that wherever your data may go, it will remain protected.
