Reducing Infrastructure Risk: The Essential Guide to Tier Certification

The rising demand for efficient, dependable data center infrastructure has catapulted industry communities like the Open Compute Project (OCP) into leading foundations for shared best practices in data center design. Companies seeking to compute data with strong connectivity and at high speed – be it internet giants or individual enterprise businesses – are now seeking OCP-compliant solutions and service providers.

Vulnerable industrial and critical infrastructure environments, long thought immune from cyber threats, are being targeted by attackers. The interconnectedness of industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) networks with IT networks has opened them up for exploitation by attackers. Current OT monitoring tools are tools are better-suited for performance monitoring, not security. Securing industrial infrastructure requires visibility to the environment and the ability to quickly detect threats targeting the environment.

IT organizations have grown accustomed to traditional IT infrastructure and virtualization technology that requires care, feeding and large budgets. Sadly, this keeps them focused on the speeds and feeds and not on what matters most – business outcomes and customer experiences. Join us to hear how Faisal Jawaid, IT Manager at TELUS Spark, a leading science museum in Calgary, CA, rose above the daily grind of managing complex infrastructure and mundane maintenance tasks.

This free 1-hour webinar from GigaOm Research features analyst Jake Dolezal and will focus on comparing Web Application Firewall (WAF) security platforms in an enterprise with high performance needs. This webinar will discuss web application security mechanisms deployed in the cloud. The cloud enables enterprises to differentiate and innovate with microservices at a rapid pace. However, the cloud is just as vulnerable, if not more so, to attacks and breaches as on-premises APIs and apps are. Our focus is specifically on approaches to securing apps, APIs, and microservices that are tuned for high performance and availability. We define “high performance” as companies that experience workloads of more than 1,000 transactions per second (tps) and require a maximum latency below 30 milliseconds across the landscape.