Why go COLO?

WHY GO COLO?

Security & Reliability DID YOU KNOW?

Not all cybersecurity breaches are caused with malicious or criminal intent. Often, they are a result of negligent or inadvertent employees working with data stored in on-premise servers. Many cybersecurity breaches can be avoided with the multi-layer security and reliability guaranteed by colocation providers.​ In early 2021, the city of Dallas suffered massive data losses because of employee negligence. An employee accidently deleted over 8 million critical police files due to a lack of training around properly moving files from cloud storage. The evidentiary value files lost were those the Dallas Police Department had collected for thousands of prosecution cases, which were impacted by the data loss.

Dallas Police Department

Affected institution

Employee negligence

Source of breach

~21TB critical data lost

Result

• Migrating to a secure colocation facility​ • Limiting access to data to authorised personel only​ • Data security training for employees (can be managed by colocation providers)​ • Regular data back-ups (can be automated at colocation facilities as an additional service)

Prevention methods

Source: https://dallascityhall.com/departments/ciservices/Pages/Report-on-Data-Loss.aspx

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VIVEK DAHIYA Head of Asia Pacific Data Centre Advisory Team vivek.dahiya@cushwake.com

SHIVANI JADON Assistant Vice President, Data Centre & Cloud Advisory shivani.jadon@ap.cushwake.com

DEEPENDRA SHUKLA Director, Data Centres, Cloud & IT Advisory deependra.shukla@cushwake.com