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“ Don ’ t leave the drawbridge down to unguarded data ,” says Camellia Chan , CEO and Co-founder of Flexxon . Software security solutions for data centres can only handle a certain capacity before falling short , with human-centric methods exacerbating the issue . Chan emphasises the aspects data centre operators need to know about a holistic approach to cybersecurity and how to minimise data loss prevention with tangibility . n enormous amount of

However , data centres still often rely on reactive , static and human-centric methods for cybersecurity . Measures such as firewalls , VPNs and encryption for network security are easily manipulated , can be exploited by Zero Day attacks and weakened by human error .

To protect business operations and continuity , what ’ s needed is a truly holistic approach to cybersecurity , incorporating both hardware and software defences to provide security across the entire attack life cycle .

What is a holistic approach ?

As technology becomes more advanced , unfortunately so do the tactics used by cybercriminals to hack systems or extort data and demand payment . In the past two years alone , the cybersecurity threat posed by AI has exploded and it is expected to increase the global ransomware threat exponentially . Therefore , as technology evolves , cybersecurity strategies must as well .

A resilient cybersecurity posture is crucial for data centres . But for too long solutions have focused on simply preventing attacks , rather than ensuring the whole attack life cycle is secured . Traditional software defences that are reactive and human-dependent , such as antivirus , will

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