Even if the cloud computing is on the rise, there are still a lot of corporate data centres around and these are a very tempting target for cyber criminals and malicious hackers.
To help protect data centres – and the data stored within them – the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) have come together to offer security guidance to data centre operators and users.
“Operators and users of data centres have a clear responsibility to protect the data that they hold and process – failing to do this poses a massive financial, reputational and, in some cases, national security risk,” said Dr Ian Levy, technical director at NCSC.
“Owning these responsibilities means understanding the array of methods that malicious actors could use to compromise a data centre both physically and digitally,” he added.
There are several issues which data centre operators and users should be thinking about, in order ensure best security practices and that data is kept safe and secure.
Risk Management
Both data centre operators and data centre users…
