Securing data centres with turnkey solutions

An integrated security ecosystem can boost data centre and organisational security, reports MVP Tech – A Convergint Company.

Modern organisations need a comprehensive, scalable and secure data centre to operate, innovate and achieve goals. Strong security is essential to protect the data centre and, ultimately, the organisation from physical and cyber-threats.

However, isolated, siloed measures are insufficient to deliver the level of security needed to truly safeguard modern day data centres.

The threat landscape for data centres – and organisations – has expanded in recent years, driven by the emergence of new attack vectors, the increasing sophistication of cyber-criminals and the easy availability of new attack weapons.

The increasing complexity of data centres also makes them vulnerable to many kinds of threats – both physical threats, like unauthorised access, theft, vandalism, sabotage and natural disasters – and cyber-threats like data breaches and cyber-attacks.

But, security is not the only challenge for organisations. Compliance is also a complex consideration.

Today’s organisations must comply with a host of standards and regulations, many of which include stringent and confusing requirements, particularly around security.

As a result, many companies struggle to understand requirements.

A well-integrated security infrastructure can help companies mitigate threats and minimise their potential impact on data centre operations and organisational health.

A strong security ecosystem is also vital when it comes to achieving compliance,

An integrated security ecosystem

A robust security ecosystem for data centres incorporates strong physical defences like biometric access control and surveillance systems and cybersecurity controls like firewalls, antivirus software and endpoint detection and response (EDR) platforms.

These defences are tailored to the organisation’s threat landscape, providing the best possible protection from all kinds of threats.

Moreover, the measures are integrated into a unified, centralised hub, providing proactive and holistic threat protection and improved incident response.

An integrated system provides a unified view of security across the data centre plus centralised command and control, allowing teams to identify and address gaps before they can be exploited.

It also simplifies policy enforcement and compliance and helps to ensure continuity and data integrity in the event of an adverse event.

A tailored security ecosystem with AI-enabled analytics capabilities provides stronger security for a data centre.

By automatically analysing user and system behaviours, the system detects patterns and unearths anomalies that may indicate the presence of a threat.

These insights improve threat detection and strengthen the data centre’s posture.

With real time analytics, automation and centralised control, human resources are no longer wasted repeatedly resolving common security issues.

Instead, the system will automatically address problems, leaving staff to focus on higher priority issues.

Integrated, automated, AI-based systems also simplify data centre security management, enhance operations and, ultimately, improve ROI.

Turnkey solutions and a reliable partner

A reliable tech partner, one that can build and customise cutting-edge, sustainable security solutions and provide 24×7 post-implementation support is invaluable for any organisation looking to build a fortified, functional data centre.

The partner must have a deep understanding of the latest security technologies, bring advanced engineering and integration expertise and unflinchingly focus on the client’s challenges and requirements from the start of the project to its end.

The partner should have a team of skilled engineers and project managers who bring advanced technological capabilities to successfully implement a secure, efficient and scalable data centre.

Equally important, they should follow a tried and tested assessment process to determine what the client is looking for and create a tailored implementation/integration strategy.

This process should start with scope definition and identification of the client’s attack surface, move to threat impact analysis and end with a thorough evaluation of existing security measures.

Post-assessment, the partner should provide recommendations for new security measures and technology systems integrations.

Every recommendation and subsequent implementation should closely align with the organisation’s threat landscape, data centre security goals and security budget.

In addition, since sustainability and energy efficiency are critical imperatives, it’s important that the partner uses energy efficient security technologies and follows sustainable design principles for the data centre project.

This partner should also integrate renewable energy sources like solar to reduce the data centre’s power consumption and minimise the organisation’s environmental impact.

MVP Tech – Convergint MEA is a reliable provider that ticks all these boxes.

Along with carefully-engineered solutions implementation, we offer end to end project management throughout the lifecycle, from initial assessment to solution design, deployment, ongoing preventive maintenance and end of life recycling.

We ensure that the end result is a secure and protected data centre, while also minimising environmental footprint.

Our partnerships with top tier tech providers allows us to deploy and integrate best in class security solutions throughout the MEA region.