¿Por qué es tan importante la seguridad en el centro de datos (Data Center)?

Why is data center security so important?

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Data center security is vital for the proper operation of your business. Such security depends on that data used for everyday work are protected, that company operation runs uninterrupted, that private data of clients are not exposed, and that decision-making keeps running effectively.

Organizations need reliable connectivity. As well as a guaranteed access to their services always being protected. Ensuring a high-quality experience regardless of where the data centers of an organization are.

We have seen large companies’ victim of DDoS attacks, and other types of cyber-attacks. Even telecoms have suffered attacks on their data center exposing the data of their clients. One of the most recent cases occurred in August 2021, when a hacker was able to penetrate the data center of T-Mobile, the second-largest telecommunications company in the U.S.A. Stealing more than 47 million users kept in its databases.

According to a study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, a security breach in the data center has an average impact of $4,240.00.

That is why, it is relevant for companies to invest in security in the data center to prevent risky theft of information which may cause multi-million losses for companies.

Keep reading more about security in the network, in the data center, and the importance of having it in your projects.

What is data center security?

The priority of data center security is to preserve information integrity and process information efficiently.

The data center technologies are increasingly virtualized. That is why data center security needs to be prioritized in infrastructure and software. Software-integrated security offers a more detailed security focus, together with greater agility and adaptation to deal with threats.

Security in the data center contemplates a great number of devices and processes with which to protect. As far as security is concerned, there is a variety of options and may include:

  • Protecting your network edge, data centers, and cloud applications with physical, virtual, and containerized last-generation firewalls.
  • Protection of workloads of applications in any cloud environment or advanced exploitation facilities.
  • Intrusion prevention systems that can work independently or may be interconnected through a correlation of events.

Depending upon services rendered by the Data Center, security can be as complex as desired.

Cutting-edge technology

You can never be cautious enough when it comes to network security. That is why we need to take action. At NGIN we feature a robust solution, which offers a trusted architecture for Zero Trust data centers.

  • It features advanced threat management which broadens visibility, intelligence, and compliance beyond traditional firewall.
  • With centralized management, application of policies, and analysis.
  • Besides, it keeps applications and microservices secure and distributed in physical data centers, private clouds and public cloud environments simultaneously.

Let one of our experts provide advice on data center security and on how will it benefit your organization with certainty and safety. Contact us!

Security challenges when migrating networks to the cloud

Security challenges when migrating networks to the cloud

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Network migration  to the cloud is performed by a growing number of users and organizations. They are making their files, applications, and content in physical devices available in the cloud for the many advantages the cloud offers.

Nevertheless, it is essential to underscore that the process is not simple, especially for organizations, because they have a much larger volume of information to migrate.

In terms of security, network migration to the cloud poses various challenges. Learning about them will help your organization face those challenges better and avoid issues when using these platforms.

Main Challenges

  • Learning Period

Migrating your network to the cloud involves various features one must understand before being able to use them. Again, the notion that several individuals constitute an organization and each one has a different learning curve is something we need to consider.

  • Cost of the Cloud

The cost of the cloud varies according to the organization’s size and needs to be considered when migration is being considered. Besides, it is essential to compare different services to select the best option in terms of economy and benefits.

  • Limitations

As with any other technology, the cloud has a few limitations that your IT department needs to know about. This can also be determined when migrating because there are various levels of services and offerings with specific characteristics. So, for example, a service focusing on an industry like transportation might not offer the same services to the health sector, limiting cloud services for health.

  • Security:

When storing content in the cloud, we need to examine the platforms and suppliers we want to select exhaustively. We must avoid violations of data center security at all costs. If you want to learn more about data security, we recommend reading this article: Why is security in the data center so important?

Considerations to Correctly Migrate Networks to the Cloud

Knowing the challenges we face with network migration to the cloud, we can now talk about a few considerations regarding the process to make it as quick and secure as possible.

  • Know your services provider. This is who you will be trusting with your organization’s information and systems during your network migration to the cloud.
  • Understand your business and its needs to get the best cloud storage option. Remember, every company has different needs, so a solution that works for your competition will not necessarily work the same for you.
  • Cipher your data in the cloud and transit. Remember that you can never be too safe when it comes to security. Even though network migration to the cloud represents a significant effort, think about the need to add a layer of protection to your organization’s confidential information.
  • Control access to the cloud with two-factor authentication and other security locks.

NGIN Services offers professional consulting on network migration to the cloud. In this way, we guarantee the security of your company’s sensitive and critical data when it is being stored in the cloud. For more information contact us.

Tendencias de edge computing y su futuro

Edge computing and its future

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Edge computing is a type of computing that occurs at the user’s physical location, from the data source, or close to them. Thanks to this, users can enjoy faster and more reliable services. At the same time, companies can use and distribute a shared set of resources at various locations.

Even though there are several well-known aspects of edge computing, its panorama keeps evolving. Doing so helps business and IT leaders to solve problems. This happens as data from sensors and machine learning increases.

Likewise, it is necessary to talk about different concerns arising from edge computing, particularly IoT and 5G. It is important to remember that there is a high volume of data that, to be sent to the cloud, demands enormous expenditure on infrastructure and associated fees to transport them and transmission times.

And this is since organizations call for almost instantaneous results for implementations such as IoT and 5G, where even one-second delays are too much.

Now, even though some edge computing implementations still have traces of older architectures, the truth is that some edge computing trends are significantly new. Those trends, precisely, are the ones helping business and IT leaders solve problems across different sectors.

Edge computing trends to be considered for 2022

According to the team of consultants at Red Hat, there are currently six trends that organizations must consider when it comes to edge computing.

  1. Increase in workloads:

Edge features more computing and storage. For example, currently, IoT joins multiple data flowing from a myriad of sensors needed by machine learning applications. And since the ongoing application of these models usually moves to the edge of the network, bandwidth requirement risks drop and allow swifter enabling at a local level. The aim is to provide information to take measures at the right time.

  1. RISC-V:

RISC-V has an open focus across its design sectors. Its twist towards edge computing allows us to observe great investment in this ecosystem. This happens from multinational companies to emerging companies that design innovative solutions for Edge and AI.

  1. vRAN use of Edge:

Virtualized Radio Access Networks(vRANs) enable and connect devices such as smartphones or IoT and 5G devices to mobile networks. Their implementation drops the total cost of ownership of the network up to 44% compared with distributed /centralized, traditional RAN configurations. This simplifies network operations and increases flexibility, availability, and efficiency.

  1. Scalability to boost operational approaches:

In this case, we can discuss four basic steps to handle scalability: standardization, minimization of operational surface, prioritization of pulls over pushes, and automation of small things.

  1. Certification needs:

The focus must be highly scalable; otherwise, its uses and benefits will be reduced. This means that technologies to verify computing devices are necessary so that they may start and continue working in a reliable need-based way.

  1. Confidential computing:

 Edge computing security calls for more comprehensive preparation. Aside from encryption of local storage and connection to more centralized systems, confidential computing offers the capacity to encrypt data while being used by an edge computing device.

At NGIN Services, we work to offer our clients solutions for their IT areas and results based upon new current and future computing trends, such as edge computing. Contact us!

¿Qué es la computación de borde de acceso múltiple?

What Is Multi-Access Edge Computing?

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Edge Computing will remain an essential part of our lives because it will be at the core of the  4.0 industry. With Edge Computing, machines will have sensors for real-time calculations and gather a lot more information. Edge Computing can apply real-time algorithms to data, eliminating most process errors.

In this post, we will dive deeper into what Edge Computing represents and the visibility it provides to companies.

Edge Computing Revolutionizing Communications

Simply put, we can say that Edge Computing refers to computing taking place at the edge of the network instead of on a centralized server. Its implementations are part of a distributed infrastructure. This brings computing power closer to those who use or consume such data.

The key to Edge Computing is that it expands resources far beyond the formerly dominant control center. Today, Edge Computing looks into the future, as the data center did a dozen years ago.

The key is that it is a form of distributed computing. In the past, we could see a cycle between more centralized computing (such as the first mainframes) and more distributed models (such as networked PCs). Today, the trend towards Edge Computing has been a move towards a more diffuse multi-cloud computing model.

Perhaps you may not notice, but we interact daily with devices that leverage Edge Computing. For example, today, you work from home and connect to a business network, and by doing so, you are using Edge Computing.

What Are Its Benefits?

Edge Computing offers excellent benefits compared to centralized computing models, including:

  • Speed: If you process data close to where they are generated, you do not have to wait for them to go to the cloud and vice versa. This reduction in latency results in a more remarkable performance.
  • Reduced network loads: Today, devices generate such a volume of data that networks may find it difficult to keep up-to-date. More processing closer to the edge reduces network bandwidth loads, thus freeing capacity for more critical workloads.
  • Reduced costs: Transmission of fewer data can also result in less data transmission-related costs. This can be relevant, particularly in a world where mobile data fees are high.
  • Improved security: If data were stored and processed at a location, you would give attackers a larger and more attractive target, but edge computing makes it less likely to have a large amount of data. Besides, edge computing makes distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks more difficult.

As you can see, Edge Computing is essential to our lives and will keep permeating across all aspects of our daily life.

At NGIN Services, we offer a variety of leading-edge solutions for the infrastructure that your company needs. Contact us and tell us about the challenges you had this year and those that will lie ahead in 2022. We want to help you!

Adopción de las redes basadas en la intención

Adoption of intent-based networks

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As mentioned in our previous blog post, intent-based networks are operation models of declarative networks. These networks are different from traditional imperative networks. They automatically generate an entire configuration of all devices in operation in the service description.

To begin with, thanks to automation, they reduce errors and risks while improving operating efficiency in different ways.

What problems do they solve?

First, they are in charge of validating intent objects before applying them to the network. In this case, intent objects are general representations of the properties or results the operator wishes to achieve in the network. It is syntax-related and includes semantic controls based on the network policy.

Likewise, intent-based networks can instantly switch to earlier or later versions. By doing so, the analysis allows operators to apply intent objects to the correct version. This to go back to a well-known status in case inconveniences arise.

Likewise, they limit the impact and scope of errors while implementing new intents using well-defined policies.

Analysis of intent-based networks allows the existence of business systems of critical and escalated implementations. They will enable us to drop the time necessary to provide reliable services for long periods, from days or even weeks to just a few minutes. Moreover, they help us deal with operating challenges once the infrastructure has been implemented.

Analysis of intent-based networks

Now, intent-based networks do not only respond to intent but, instead, ensure it.  Analysis of intent-based networks allows for meeting original company intent while the service life cycle lasts.

Such analysis of intent-based networks provides highly valuable network service-related information. So, it allows the network to be seen as a comprehensive service. Thus, in the event of an error, such analyses are used to identify the cause of the error in a shorter period. In this way, filtration of irrelevant details is possible so that operators may know truly relevant information in a faster and easier way.

Intent-based networks call for a sophisticated orchestration system to make complex decisions to allow network automation. Therefore, they unify operations equipment and architecture operations and eliminate reliability problems and limitations regarding human capital while offering reliability and flexibility.

At NGIN Services, we offer solutions in the intent-based networks arena to implement best practices in your organization. Asks us for a quote today. Contact us!

 

Soluciones de enrutamiento por segmentos y el futuro del transporte de red

Segment Routing Solutions and the Future of Network Transport

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The current proliferation of applications and cloud-hosted content will increase exponentially. This will affect traffic between and within data centers. In this environment, segment routing becomes essential for integral network transport.

Thus, a segment routed network enables network transport to be more profitable, scalable, and with greater responsiveness. Furthermore, it can streamline the application and cloud-based content distribution across different network domains. This can improve the quality of the application experience.

Advantages of Segment Routing

Migrating from multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) to segment routing is complex. That is why the existing control planes must be replaced. A solution is to use functions with which both protocols can be executed on the same network.

Segment routing offers several advantages you should consider for your IT area, for example:

  • Greater reach to improve bandwidth leveraging.
  • Automation functions to simplify network administration and operations.
  • Network and traffic leveraging processes confer agility since they are automatic.
  • Application recognition in the network control plane.
  • Optimum quality for the application user experience.

Maximum Leveraging

The control plane requires an infrastructure with the right technologies. Thus, segment routing can be fully leveraged to provide solutions to network transport.

A model implementing hybrid networks in which LDP, MPLS, and IP technologies coexist ensures profitable network transport.

Some of these models offer opportunities, such as simplification of route design, implementation, and operations, without the need for integral signaling protocols, such as RSVP-TE. Moreover, several network domains can be controlled using a standard protocol. This reduces the number of control plane technologies required for this process.

The future of network transport calls for integral segment routing solutions, which will simplify the IT architecture and, in turn, reduce costs.

Incorporating more efficient technologies and processes at the control plane level will be very useful for operators and large service providers. They streamline network administration, make control easier, and allow a quick and automatic response to Internet traffic pattern changes.

At NGIN Services, we offer solutions that will enable your organization to take a step into the future of network transport. We feature comprehensive solutions for the implementation of segment routing. Contact us today and ask for a quote.