Innovative ideas on Data Center Security Management

Just as athletes are eager to achieve good performance, people expect data centers to achieve high performance. However, at any time, achieving success requires an existing process: goal setting, design, planning, training, execution, and maintenance. These are all necessary steps. Creating a blueprint for success is an important part of achieving the expected results. However, without the support of effective measures, the final results will be very different from expected. Sometimes, a small change will have a huge impact.

Any system is composed of multiple running and correlated components. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure the balance between components so that no unnecessary pressure is generated at any stage. This balance should also be sought for a comprehensive review of data center security.

With the rapid development of technology and the constant development of security threats, we cannot examine security issues only from isolated components such as networks, servers, databases or hypervisors, instead, we should comprehensively study risks and impacts to find the best solution that meets our strategic objectives. At present, the diversity of peripheral devices is not as easy to define as before, so it cannot be taken for granted that data security can be ensured as long as the server stays in your data center.

The protection of all components is important to the security of interconnectivity. We strongly recommend that enterprises carefully weigh the security issues between networks and servers. In addition to ensuring the security of data processing transactions on servers, dual protection can also ensure data security during transmission. Many enterprises do not consider the security of data centers in balance. Some enterprises do not achieve the best server protection because they often think that server performance is more important. We need to recognize the reality that enterprises that only implement virus protection on servers always look at the primary protection layer of the network to ensure security, however, this limits the enterprise's ability to prevent targeted, persistent, and penetrating virus attacks.

Repetitive and complex, leading to inefficiency

Repeated boring, monotonous, and boring programs cannot give full play to the roles of the IT staff, especially when these programs are incorrect or cannot provide protection. This is the same as athletes saying they need to change to enhance their strength. data centers also need to use innovation to enhance their security protection capabilities.

Managing data center security is not a sprint, It is a endurance race, and it will become more and more competitive. Every day, 10,000 new malware are detected, and sustained threats are extremely destructive. The depth and breadth of Network activities cannot be ignored, but some IT staff often think that the current security measures are sufficient.

The mindset effect refers to the stubborn pursuit of solutions suitable for the past environment, ignoring the Evaluation and Research of alternative solutions. In today's environment, if you still follow the old method, improving efficiency can only become a blank talk. The nature of the data center is changing. Its goal is to improve the efficiency of infrastructure usage by reducing power consumption and improving scalability. Virtual Technology has changed our understanding of data centers, and IT elites have begun to rethink network and server management to maintain a balance between them. In this case, should we change the concept of data center virus protection?

During virus detection, on-demand or access file scanning has proved very inefficient. Some IT people even said they had secretly hoped they could discard the two methods. As the system availability and performance requirements increase significantly, any component that may cause problems will become the focus of attention in terms of utility or demand.

How to achieve efficient and competitive operation for enterprises is a major challenge for IT professionals. Some people may even take convenient ways to achieve the best results. However, for unified management of different servers, determining the real-time scan time or determining the file scan type based on the excluded method is still very inefficient. Blacklist is still a common method because you are familiar with IT, but blacklist is not reliable as the primary security protection for data centers. Some IT professionals are prohibited from using the blacklist, or, you can limit the number of times a full system scan is performed within one month.

Server SecurityThere is no fixed solution

There are many alternative and complementary solutions for server security issues. Unlike the past, which only focused on providing security solutions for popular servers, optimized Data Centers and risk analysis ensure that you customize more professional and targeted solutions based on data types, processing methods, and infrastructure. However, whether it is because of the product performance or the depth of protection, if the virus protection does not meet your needs, is there any other alternative?

In this controlled environment, dynamic whitelist can take full advantage of IT to ensure that only valid applications are allowed to run on the server. We cannot check whether the server is protected every time a new threat warning is triggered. This focus should be placed on new projects that can bring more and better business results.

The features of the whitelist technology make these host-based protection measures hardly affect system resources because system scanning is not activated. This technology can be used to ensure the security and integrity of the host after IT personnel confirm that the server is not threatened by infection. Malware or other advanced threats cannot perform unauthorized changes to executable files, which is suitable for applications on domain controllers, application servers, and public application servers. These powerful high-performance systems are now securely optimized in terms of speed and accuracy, providing enterprises with key business processing and service work.

For file files and printers that need to constantly receive new content from various channels, custom security may be a better solution. For a long time, these professional systems have been operating just like long-distance runners. They still have to keep pace stable in the face of different terrain challenges. In addition to providing more protection for VLAN virtual Internet, it also needs to be integrated with powerful and reliable Host Intrusion Protection. You can monitor and defend against system, application, or service exceptions. This is also important for changing file servers.

The way to improve efficiency is not to adopt extreme methods, but to make changes when they are needed through accurate understanding and planning, no matter how small the change is. IT should be noted that, in terms of server virus protection, we must first break the regular rules and solve the mindset problems that plague many IT professionals. In fact, the general method cannot achieve the best effect, and in some cases, the host-based safety belt will be problematic.

After everything is ready, what we need to do now is to ensure that the right measures are taken to maintain a balance between security and performance, and provide adequate in-depth protection for the enterprise. This is not out of opposition to the use of anti-virus software, but an opportunity to seek other control solutions, so that your data center has the best security and performance.