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THE SECURITY TRENDS ARE ACTUALLY VERY CONNECTED TO THE DATA CENTRE TRENDS THEMSELVES . SO WE SEE A PROLIFERATION OF CONNECTED DEVICES .
issues around shortage of talent globally , but in the data centre space it existed before the great resignation and the pandemic and it ’ s really visceral on the cybersecurity side of things . So those two trends coupled with the growth , the investment , the mergers and acquisitions activity – which has been so exciting to see – it ’ s also led to a proliferation of multi-vendor environments multi-country data centre management and so you ’ re going to see a trend towards more centralisation on the security side in terms of how they manage their data centres .
How important is data centre security and how do you prioritise this ?
Well , when considering data centre security in terms of risk , I think there are three elements that determine risk of a particular industry and it ’ s going to be threat , vulnerability and consequence .
So obviously with the trends I mentioned , threats and vulnerabilities are growing . And when you look at consequence , data centres today don ’ t have the health and human safety impact of say nuclear industry or wastewater potentially . But as workloads continue to move to the cloud and as data centres continue to manage more and more mission critical infrastructure , there is consequence there . So , it ’ s certainly critical infrastructure globally and should be recognised as such .
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