The upgraded solution helps justify physical and cybersecurity investments at current and future data centre facilities.
DeNexus, a leader in end-to-end cyber risk management for operational technology (OT), has announced a key expansion of its cyber-risk management solution DeRISK for data centre facilities.
This new capability models and quantifies physical-to-cyber-risk, which occurs when an entity bypasses a data centre facility’s physical security to advance the objective of executing a cyberattack and supports the justification of both physical and cybersecurity investments for data centres.
Planning and forecasting security investments for existing and future data centre facilities requires financial quantification of both physical and cyber-risks. With this new capability, DeRISK’s models capture the facility’s physical security zones, the various access paths from zone to zone, the related physical access controls and their effectiveness, and the probability of a successful bypass that could result in a cyberevent.
With DeNexus, security leaders can understand physical and cyberexposures at their data centre facilities, estimate the potential financial loss from a breach, and run ‘what-if’ scenarios for various risk mitigation investments to strengthen physical and cyberdefences.
Managing cyber-risk for the exploding data centre market is top of mind for the technology industry. Driven by the rapid expansion of AI, global data centre capacity is expected to double over the next five years with hyperscalers estimated to increase annual spending by US$48 billion in 2024, according to a recent report from Moody’s Ratings.
“DeNexus is proud to be a pioneer helping organisations navigate the interconnected nature of physical and cybersecurity in data centres,” said Jose Seara: CEO and Founder of DeNexus. “This is paramount for protecting these cyber-physical assets, which are increasingly relied upon to power the digital economy and growing at an exponential rate fuelled by the rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence.”
“Security leaders often overlook physical data centre security. In the 2024 AFCOM State of the Data Centre Report, physical data centre security broke into the top five security concerns. With AI, our industry is experiencing a generational shift in technology, usage and adoption. It is crucial to understand the interconnection between physical and cyber-risks today,” stated Bill Kleyman: AFCOM Data Center World Programme Chair and CEO and Co-Founder of Apolo.us.
“We commend DeNexus for their proactive approach in providing financial insights into the combined physical and cyber threats our global digital infrastructures face.”
Working with early adopters of its data centre cyber-risk management solution, DeNexus will continue to develop advanced models that account for the interconnection between physical and cyberassets.
DeNexus will showcase its work on physical and cyber risk management at Data Center World in Washington D.C. on April 14-17.
