Infrastructure back doors
CLOSE THE BACK DOOR
Matt Walmsley head of EMEA marketing at Vectra Networks , discusses the vulnerability of UK data centres , particularly when it comes to infrastructure back doors and the importance of detecting an attack early on .
Today ’ s data centres are highly virtualised environments . Densely packed and home to unparalleled levels of enterprise data . So much so , data centres are now commonly the repository for the enterprise ’ s key digital assets and resources . Their high value makes them a tantalising target for attackers and their position within the enterprise means that attacks may be relatively mature by the time they manifest . For example , an attacker may initially compromise a laptop at the perimeter , spread internally , gain administrative credentials and only then move against the data centre .
The data centre is both integrally connected , yet in some ways separated from the physical enterprise . Furthermore , 80 per