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AI’s Biggest Impact in the Data Center is Cybersecurity

AI tools can handle more data than human security pros ever can and find anomalies that are invisible to humans.

Attackers Have a New Way to Damage Data Center Infrastructure

A new kind of malware goes after industrial safety systems that provide emergency shutdown capabilities. It can cause damage or shut down operations. The malware…

VMware-Carbon Black Partnership Expected to Close Data Center Security Gaps

Short on security professionals, enterprises scream for more automation as attacks increase in number and scope.

Despite Takedowns, Botnets Aren’t Going Away Any Time Soon

Here’s what data center managers can do to reduce exposure to the likes of the Andromeda botnet.

Why Traditional Security Info and Event Management Tools No Longer Cut It

By being slow to add deep visibility into cloud environments, incumbent SIEM vendors leave themselves open to disruption by the likes of Splunk.

How the Cloud Killed the Firewall

The firewall as we know it cannot keep up with today’s enterprise application needs.

Data Center Security: Honey Pots and the Art of Deceiving Hackers

While a lot of work, honey pots are one of the most effective ways of pre-empting serious security breaches.

What IP? Ex-con’s Security Firm Offers to Solve Hollywood’s Piracy Problem

Secure Channels pitches a secure storage service for movies and other sensitive intellectual property, but can it solve its reputation problem?

New Chip Design Gains Traction as Fix for Major Data Center Security Hole

Encrypting data at rest and in flight is not enough; solution could help Equifax avoid epic breach

AI Starts Making Inroads into Data Center Security

Machine learning helps security systems uncover deviations human security pros cannot detect

The Huge Security Threat of Misconfigured Cloud and How to Fix It

As organizations move operations to cloud environments, basic security controls are sometimes not implemented correctly.

Is It Time for Data Center Managers to Say Goodbye to Kaspersky?

Experts question the company’s ability to survive allegations that the Russian government has built backdoors into its software.

How Worms Get inside Data Centers and What Can Be Done about Them

WannaCry and Petya demonstrate that worms have come into their own, and keeping systems patched only goes so far from protecting your data center against…

How to Fight the New Breed of DDoS Attacks on Data Centers

As attacks grow in scope and sophistication, infrastructure providers, telcos, and security vendors band together to fight back.

Why DDoS Attacks are on the Rise

Attacks are growing in size, and “everyone has a target on their back.”

Cloudflare Stops Charging More for Bigger DDoS Attacks

One year ago, security researcher and blogger Brian Krebs was hit by a massive DDoS attack, so big that his host booted him off their…

China’s Quantum Net Advance Offers a Glimpse into the Future of Enterprise Security

Chinese companies actively productizing quantum key distribution, which pushes communications security to a new level Earlier this month, China’s official news agency Xinhua announced the…

Ransomware Grows Up, Goes After Data Centers

Attacks on enterprise infrastructure reach unprecedented scale and ransomware payload Think your data center is safe from ransomware attacks because the attackers only go after…

VMware Builds Data Center Security into the Virtual Infrastructure

Anti-malware defenses are struggling to keep up with constant floods of new, fast-evolving attacks but one thing that could help is if the infrastructure itself…

It’s Time to Replace Your Encryption-Key Spreadsheet

When a company stores critical data, whether in its own data center or in the cloud, encryption key management is vital to keeping that data…

Are Encrypted Lockboxes for Data Centers Worth the Usability Cost?

The idea is simple. First, you encrypt all your data and put the key somewhere safe. Then you send the data off to a data…

10 Things Data Center Operators Can Do to Prepare for GDPR

As we explained in an article earlier this week, the new European General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect next May, has  wide-reaching implications…

What Europe’s New Data Protection Law Means for Data Center Operators

The new  European General Data Protection Regulation  goes into effect next May and applies to any company, anywhere in the world, that collects sensitive data…

Quantum Computing Could Make Today’s Encryption Obsolete

Researchers at top university and corporate labs around the world are in a furious race to create the first practical, usable quantum computer. Quantum computers…