The challenge – To work securely.
Comprehensive and proactive protection against cyberattacks is crucial and of upmost importance for our customers no matter if the data centre is run on premise or in the cloud. Dynamic growth and increasing technological complexity are posing new questions for businesses and their IT organisations.
Is the in-house IT department up to the task of running the IT infrastructure and fulfilling necessary requirements to do so? Are businesses playing security catchup? Do established data centre architectures comply with the EU GDPR, BSI and institutions such as TISAX® or BaFin®?
Ready to face the digital world of tomorrow.
Organically grown IT infrastructures struggle to meet the demands of businesses for resource scalability and agility in the provision of new services while taking IT security into account. The aim should be to build a next generation data centre that’s ready for digitalisation and able to support the digital transformation. What does that mean? Completely reconfiguring data centres so that they are at the cutting edge.
Advanced data centre security framework.
Our advanced data centre security framework reference architecture shows you what you have to do to get your data centre up to scratch to fulfil the necessary security requirements. We take a best of breed approach which means finding and integrating the best possible solution for each application area.
Therefore, when planning a secure data centre, our IT architects consider the following points:
- On-premise or cloud architecture
- Segmentation on a network or server layer (micro segmentation)
- Access control to the data centre/cloud
- Secure cloud access (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, etc.)
- Monitoring data communication within the data centre and beyond
- Monitoring for compliance and defence against cyberattacks and malware
- Correctly securing web, application and mail servers
- Global URL filter
- Virus and malware protection
- Data Leakage prevention
- Sandboxing
- End-to-end security
- Encryption
- Global and local load balancing
- Public key infrastructure
- Identity management and 2FA/MFA
- Privileged access management
- Up-to-date software product versions / patch management
- Centralised management and visibility
- Demand-oriented and legally-compliant logs
- Stability and operation of the data centre infrastructure
Benefits.
The advanced data centre security framework is a dual-layer security infrastructure that is both BSI and GDPR-compliant. The framework serves to leverage appropriate measures to secure building blocks such as perimeter, cloud, DMZ, data centres and campus networks. Role-based identity and access management plus the latest web and mail security technology complete the end-to-end security. The design provides for the integration of cloud services and a secure connection to SD-WAN technologies at any time. Internal security services in the backend such as web/mail security, NAC and endpoint security protect the entire infrastructure—from the client to the server.
Summary.
Companies and the public sector are slowly beginning to realise that there is no 100% protection against cyberattacks and the European Data Protection Regulation’s obligation to report security incidents within 72 hours is driving the message home. We need modern concepts and new approaches to be able to detect attacks and that includes vulnerability management, SIEM and proactive PEN tests.
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