Smart Cities & Critical Infrastructure Cyber Attack Vulnerabilities

Virtualization is becoming a core business strategy everywhere. Nearly every business is nowadays using some form of virtualization technology. Virtualization helps delivering high priority business services more quickly, enhancing energy efficiency, optimizing various resources and improving organization efficiency.

Demand for edge data centers is expected to grow across the world in the short-term, particularly for shared data centers and especially in North America. Uptime Institute research shows a continued usage of redundant power and cooling systems, while at the same time showing an interest in distributed resiliency involving multiple edge data centers.

Networking becomes a major issue when enterprises adopt a multi-cloud strategy. From local VLAN and subnetting features to cloud interconnects, routing and security, today’s enterprises lean heavily on the native networking functions and services of their cloud providers. Unfortunately, these native offerings are proprietary to individual cloud providers, which makes building and operating an end-to-end, multi-cloud network extremely complex.

As you adopt cloud IaaS to meet business goals, effective security controls can’t be an afterthought. This elastic infrastructure environment requires smart access controls; but how do you adhere to your security policies without limiting automation? Watch this webinar to learn how to effectively secure server access by applying the core principles of Zero Trust and enforce strict just-in-time, least privilege access in a manner that doesn't get in the way of productivity. Featured guest Dr. Chase Cunningham, principal analyst for Forrester Research, and Ivan Dwyer from Okta discuss: Why you need to re-think your infrastructure access approach.