siliconindia | | November 20189dustry professionals in January 2018), improving security (both physical and cyber) is the key investment driver for decision relating to data infrastructure (60.2 percent). A high majority - 89.3 percent of the sample - also agree that security management is now the key factor in maintaining availability. Therefore, to `keep-up with the pace' means implementing security that is able to adapt to provide con-sistent, constant and intelligent protection across evolv-ing and hybrid data center models against advanced and evolving threats. Today's defence against cyber-threats will be real-time, continual and immediate in response. It will usually involve multiple layers of cyber-defence so if one is breached, the next can step-up, it will be au-tomated and use multiple points of data collection (IoT) to make decisions and to evolve the protocol necessary to maintain protection. The processes for the physical secu-rity of the data center will include new technologies such as biometrics, automated access or denial of access based on this. It will be able to identify who or what the physical threat may be based on database matching of photographs or number plates.What are some interesting trends and common pain points in the industry? There are a number of trends that are shaping data center markets. The first is the continuing move from in-house data centers into facilities and services provided outside the organisation (`outsourcing'). As a related trend is the move away from legacy IT (physical servers) towards nonphysical, `dematerialised' infrastructure and compo-nents. This includes components and services that are created within and sourced from virtualised, cloud-based or software-defined environments. The pain points aside from security are accessing the resources required to meet the increasing demand for data center facilities and ser-vices, among enterprise sectors. Resources may include money, power (in particular power sourced from sustain-able sources), water, connectivity, staff/skills, access to quality outsourcing facilities and services. Future outlook for DC/Cloud security in Asia?It is fairly much a continuation of the chess game as de-scribed above between threats (at both the cyber and in-frastructure levels) and defences. As the world gets more digitalized, so do the data centres will need to do even more to maintain availability. Increases in the number of automated and lights-out facilities and the levels of con-nectivity between data infrastructure will increase the risk profile. This means that companies will need to look very carefully at the risk profile they need to adopt for their infrastructure. Security will be looked at as part of this process and also as part of the evaluation of overall data health. Increasingly, sophisticated algorithm-based tech-niques can be used in conjunction with big data analytics, not just to identify security threats, but to diagnose the wider principle of `data health'. Data anomalies, where the `norm' has been established on the basis of prior em-pirical learnings do not necessarily mean a threat. There-fore, the ability to distinguish between data anomalies and genuine threats will become increasingly important in or-der to identify and deal with threats efficiently rather than engaging on wild goose chases. As the world gets more digitalized, so do the data centres will need to do even more to maintain availability
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