Cryptojacking: The Hot New Type of Attack on Data Centers
Servers hijacked for cryptocurrency mining may lead to higher bills from your cloud provider or your power utility.
Category: Data Center Knowledge
Can Blockchain Fix Cybersecurity?
The technology holds a lot of promise for security, but there’s still a long way to go before it sees serious enterprise adoption.
Lessons From This Year’s Data Center Outages: Focus On the Fundamentals
Most downtime incidents in the past year resulted from known causes and were preventable via robust design and processes.
Cybersecurity Tools for Data Center Networks are Getting Smarter With Machine Learning
New tools put more power in the hands of security professionals, whose responsibilities have grown exponentially.
Are You Spending Too Much (or Too Little) on Cybersecurity?
Pinpointing the right level of security spend is easy in theory but not in practice.
CASB, SSO, or PAM? Access Control for Data Center Admins
Researchers agree that most enterprise security breaches involve stolen or weak passwords. Here are the main technological approaches to addressing this problem.
How to Secure Your AWS Storage Buckets
Amazon is responsible for securing its cloud. Your security inside its cloud is on you.
Why Entrusting Security to a Startup May Be Worth the Risk
They may not have the scale or the reputation of big vendors, but security startups are often better positioned to meet your specific needs.
California’s New Privacy Act May Drive Tighter Controls in Data Centers
The law goes into effect in 2020, but now is a good time to start preparing.
Can Supercomputers Improve Cybersecurity? Not for a While
Supercomputers are evolving at a maddening pace, but no matter how powerful, they remain impractical for solving security challenges.
Machine Learning Is Becoming a Must in Data Center Network Security
The volume of data traveling on networks and sophistication of attack tools are outpacing human experts’ capabilities.
Five Barriers to Adoption of Liquid Cooling in Data Centers
The rise of machine learning is driving adoption of liquid cooling, but the switch from air to liquid isn’t simple.
Does Your Data Center Have Adequate Cyber Insurance?
As enterprises get increasingly interconnected, cyber insurance for data centers is becoming not only a priority, it’s becoming a best practice.
Following Equinix’s Lead, Interxion Gets Into Encryption Key Management
Interxion has launched an encryption key management service called Key Guardian.
The Challenges and Opportunities of Big Data in Cybersecurity
While big data is a challenge to defend, big data concepts are now applied extensively across the cybersecurity industry.