For those with a significant stake or role in a data centre business, whether it’s for their own organisation or for others, it is important to understand that there is a very real cyber risk threatening data centre operators, creating a pre-eminent risk to their critical facility networks.
With the digital economy already accounting for 7% of the UK’s GDP and the estimated spend on the Internet of Things (IoT) being in excess of £20bn in 2021, it is clear that the data centre market in the UK and around Europe is on a long-term upward trend.
Throughout industry, Industrial Control Systems (ICS) have long been targeted with cyber crime but now, more malicious and sophisticated strains of malware and ransomware are specifically targeting Operational Technology (OT) environments.