The next-generation datacenter requires new security practices, but that doesn’t mean everything we learned about datacenter security becomes obsolete.
Securing traditional datacenters used to be all about installing perimeter defenses, such as firewalls, to keep threats away from internal networks. While that was enough a decade ago, today’s next-generation datacenters are prone to advanced attacks from malware and hackers aiming to infiltrate and remain undetected for as long as possible.