In today’s cyber landscape with both the frequency and cost of breaches rising, what can be done to harness the power of existing compute, network and storage infrastructure for the purpose of greater cybersecurity readiness? This session will explore the ability to up level an organization’s security posture by focusing on key aspects of data center architecture that enable greater visibility, protection and threat detection. By augmenting and instrumenting existing compute, network and storage components within the data center, analytical threat data can be greatly enhanced thereby increasing the speed and fidelity in which a response and recovery can be orchestrated. This enhanced visibility into application behavior and communication patterns allows the infrastructure to protect applications at a least privileged level thereby significantly narrowing the attack surface. The session will include examples of higher education institutions that have implemented this approach and discuss the benefits they have realized. Benefits include compliance with relevant higher education security standards to include NIST, PCI and HIPAA. Cyber-enabling data center architecture allows organizations to take the next step in maturing their approach to cybersecurity and establishing a secure and compliant IT landscape.
