Dave Klein
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Data centers are a new target for hackers
Sergey Stelmakh | 05/08/2019
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Dave Klein, senior director of engineering and architecture at cloud data center security software developer Guardicore, explains to Information Age why data centers are becoming targets for hacker attacks and advises on the steps to take to protect them.
Why hackers are retargeting data centers
As some experts point out, over the past three years, attackers denmark mobile database begun to switch from hacking individual consumer devices to corporate data centers. Whether on-premises, cloud, or hybrid cloud environments, hackers have targeted them for two reasons. First, data centers are an inexhaustible source of priceless corporate information, and therefore money. They can even be compared to gold mines that can bring hackers huge profits. Why? The answer is simple. Why would criminals hack a browser to access the confidential information of an individual if they can get to tens of millions of accounts at once.
What makes data centers even more attractive targets is that they contain business and industrial secrets, the resale of which can be much more profitable than trading in consumer information. Finally, they are the center of large computing power and high-speed network channels, which guarantees hackers additional opportunities to make a profit using the captured corporate resources. Stolen computing infrastructure is in high demand on the black market, with cybercriminals on the Darknet selling it as DDoS-as-a-Service and RAT-as-a-Service. They can be used to carry out massive infections of PCs around the world or to distribute backdoors with remote access functionality.
Sergey Stelmakh | 05/08/2019
IncreaseDave Klein
Dave Klein, senior director of engineering and architecture at cloud data center security software developer Guardicore, explains to Information Age why data centers are becoming targets for hacker attacks and advises on the steps to take to protect them.
Why hackers are retargeting data centers
As some experts point out, over the past three years, attackers denmark mobile database begun to switch from hacking individual consumer devices to corporate data centers. Whether on-premises, cloud, or hybrid cloud environments, hackers have targeted them for two reasons. First, data centers are an inexhaustible source of priceless corporate information, and therefore money. They can even be compared to gold mines that can bring hackers huge profits. Why? The answer is simple. Why would criminals hack a browser to access the confidential information of an individual if they can get to tens of millions of accounts at once.
What makes data centers even more attractive targets is that they contain business and industrial secrets, the resale of which can be much more profitable than trading in consumer information. Finally, they are the center of large computing power and high-speed network channels, which guarantees hackers additional opportunities to make a profit using the captured corporate resources. Stolen computing infrastructure is in high demand on the black market, with cybercriminals on the Darknet selling it as DDoS-as-a-Service and RAT-as-a-Service. They can be used to carry out massive infections of PCs around the world or to distribute backdoors with remote access functionality.