Every business incurs losses due to cyber attacks which in terms costs them losing money along with the customers and business reputation. Hence it is imperative for the business to maintain the security of their servers along with whole IT infrastructure. Data and IT infrastructure are very crucial for every business, and hence most of them are now migrating to cloud infrastructure.
Security Solutions have always been the key part in the data center design and architectures. Datacenters are working hard in ensuring the highest level of security to meet all the compliance norms. Datacenter itself is a complex ecosystem with several components and equipment that requires security aspects to be considered separately as a major concern.
Here are some of the critical components that have special security requirements.
Physical security of DC: Physical security of the datacenter building along with all the components and equipment is very crucial. DC building must be designed to avert all the weather disasters, industrial accidents and many more. The physical security should also include the variety of measures including the building construction and designing, CCTV monitoring, protecting with the specialized security team.
Limited and restricted access: The DC security team needs to have a close watch on the visitors from cleaning staff to the internal IT staff and the person accessing the critical areas. The all restricted areas should have several layers of the security for all movements and must be tracked to ensure the unauthorized access to the server rooms.
Data security: All the DC is aimed at keeping the hosting the data and application safe and secure. It also includes the comprehensive measures like data backup and recovery, data encryption for file transfering, encoding and decoding of the latest data and privacy regulations and comprehensive monitoring of traffic.
Network Security: The network is the very first layer of the server infrastructure and hence must be secured properly through the firewalls and traffic screening at the entry point. It must be ensured that the inspecting and monitoring the internal traffic within the network, to detect and mitigate any threat that might have passed the firewalls.
Server Security: With Virtualization securing the server has become more challenging and intricate. Implementing the industry standards and ensuring complete security 24/7 monitoring, intrusion detection, and intrusion prevention are all key aspects of server security. The complete server security solutions are needed to protect the physical server operating environment.
All businesses fell prey to the cyber attackers regardless of the industry or its size. Hence Datacenter companies are working and devising the strategies that are very aggressive and innovate to ensure that DC security services remain uncompromised.