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THE DATA CENTER IS THE HEART OF MULTICLOUD AND REQUIRES A NEW SECURITY MINDSET TO GAIN RESILIENCE
André Kupfer , LATAM Sales Engineering Leader , Hillstone , says the Cloud Workload Protection Program ( CWPP ) is a fundamental achievement for Brazil .
The Brazilian digital economy increasingly runs in the multi-cloud environment . This increases the challenge of managing and securing the data center , the physical foundation of the cloud .
An IDC study released in February 2024 indicates that cloud consumption in Brazil will generate revenues in the amount of US $ 1.5 billion in 2024 .
The cloud is not an abstract entity : private and public data centers of all sizes and infinite segments , technologies and applications are responsible for delivering the services that companies and people need .
As much as they have different profiles , data centers are equal in the search for maximum resilience .
A 2022 Uptime Institute study shows that among 1,000 global data center managers surveyed , 25 % said they had suffered losses of more than US $ 1 million from downtime in 2021 .
The focus of cybercriminals is to identify a vulnerability of a particular device or application and , from there , move laterally , or East – West , until it gains dominance over other segments of the data center and triggers ransomware actions with immense destructive power .
Above all , what affects the data center affects the multi-cloud world and the digital processes that support people ’ s lives .
In this hyper-distributed and complex universe , there is no more room for security solutions focused on perimeter protection . Those who still follow this model have no visibility into the threats focused on the complex and micro-segmented virtual world that makes up the modern data center .
Aware of this fact , Gartner has developed a tailor-made discipline to increase the resilience of increasingly complex , heterogeneous and segmented data centers . This is the Cloud Workload Protection Program ( CWPP ) – a cloud load protection platform .
What affects the data center affects the multicloud world and the digital processes that support people ’ s lives .
André Kupfer , LATAM Sales Engineering Leader , Hillstone
As each data center is a patchwork quilt with different generations of networks , systems and applications being processed , CWPP seeks to be a response to this situation .
In a multicloud , workloads can be distributed across a variety of virtualized environments . Each segment represents a specific workload . Workloads can have data stored in different physical locations . This is very common in data centers and hybrid networks .
The workload is essentially the software , processes and resources required to perform the data processing work .
An organization ’ s accounting department has a workload that is likely separate from the workload of the sales department . Production has a separate workload to itself .
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