Cybersecurity: five critical areas companies must safeguard

May 7, 2023

Cybersecurity: five critical areas companies must safeguard

In today’s reality, where international cybercriminals use malware and ransomware to carry out attacks, companies must adopt organizational strategies centered on creating protection ecosystems which include IT security, focused on information security.

Santiago, July 04^th, 2023  Although IT security has always been a relevant aspect of companies’ operations, never has this topic been so critical. With companies and institutions rapidly advancing in their digital transformation processes, and employees working in remote or hybrid systems, security has become increasingly vulnerable.

However, the notion that this won’t happen to me is still too frequent among companies of all sizes and segments. Without going too far, according to a 2022 Gartner report, by 2025 45% of organizations worldwide will have suffered attacks on their supply chain software, thus providing hackers and malicious actors a fertile soil where they can leverage weaknesses to drive malware and ransomware attacks, to destroy infrastructures and obtain economic gain.

So, what must companies do regarding cybersecurity?

Ricardo Pulgarín, Cirion Technologies’ Security Solutions Architect, explains: Regardless of their size and business, companies must have an organizational security strategy encompassing two aspects: IT security the set of technologies, processes and practices designed for network, devices, programs and data protection and information security, such as the measures and techniques employed to control and safeguard all data handled inside the organization, ensuring that they are exposed only to the appropriate recipients; this is the area of greatest risk.

Beginning with IT security, companies must possess different protection tools to create an ecosystem which can predict and deflect attacks, detect, and contain incidents, and obtain responses to foster research and resolve the problems detected.

In Pulgaríns opinion, in a scenario where vulnerabilities can cause severe damages to a company’s operation, this ecosystem must focus on 5 key areas to prevent and address potential cyberattacks:

Development: Everything a company publishes in the web; for instance, source codes, applications, commercial web pages, corporate sites, and other developments.
Data Centers: All services except web pages, such as GPS management, biometry software, virtual machines, user authentication systems, and file repository, among others.
Connectivity: Every access channel, such as Internet, MPLS, and broadband channels, among others.
Endpoints: User devices, such as business computers and tablets, as well as corporate smartphones.
Users: They are the ones who consume the information and need to know what should be done to prevent them from being victims of hacker scams, through awareness and training on cybersecurity.

About Cirion

Cirion is a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber networks, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communications and collaboration solutions with the purpose of furthering Latin Americas progress through technology. Cirion serves over 5,500 Latin America-based and multinational customers, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, wireline and wireless carriers, ISPs, and other leading businesses. Cirion owns and operates a portfolio of networks and data centers, with extensive coverage throughout the Latin American region. Learn more about Cirion at www.ciriontechnologies.com

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CenturyLink Expands Data Center Operations in Santiago

Dec 12, 2018

CenturyLink Expands Data Center Operations in Santiago

New construction model optimizes energy and space efficiencies

SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Global communications and IT provider CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) is expanding its broad regional offering of colocation, hosting, cloud computing, security, collaboration, communications and managed services for its existing and new customers by launching a new energy and space efficient data center in Chile.

Learn more about CenturyLink´s new data center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdeRYioFU6A

“Located in Huechuraba, north of the Chilean capital, Santiago, and in proximity to customers, the new facility has 24×7 availability, next-generation security systems and is energy and space efficient through the use of an innovative construction model,” said Gabriel del Campo, vice president, data center and security, CenturyLink Latin America. “Using a modular construction model, we were able to have the facility operational in less time — an important benefit to customers eager to take advantage of our data center services.”

Chile’s new data center integrates with CenturyLink’s 18 other data centers in Latin America, as well as the company’s broad global infrastructure, by providing direct connectivity to CenturyLink’s approximately 450,000 route miles of fiber globally.

“Our data center and managed services business is growing,” added del Campo. “We count on high quality data centers to provide our customers with the best solutions and services.”

The data center will provide customers with a processing environment designed to deliver high levels of availability, improved quality and increased speed of access to the rest of the world. The new facility also offers customers fiber route diversity for deployment of contingency environments.

Through this innovative construction model, CenturyLink was able to meet the following objectives:

Offer infrastructure in compliance with the Uptime Institute’s TIER III requirements and regulations TIA 942 and NFPA75 to ensure the level of service required by enterprise customers, in alignment with the strictest rules for next-generation data centers.
Maximize power efficiency and optimize the use of space.
Offer a seismic resistant computing center.
Reduce launch times for new data center rooms.

Key Facts:

Similar to the data center CenturyLink opened earlier this year in Quito, Ecuador, the new data center was built using a modular construction system known as eCentre, a pre-assembled facility, equipped and tested in the factory in Sweden, and customized to ensure the building meets all local structural regulations for this type of construction.
The first phase of the project consisted of a one floor 1500KW data center; however, the complete project is designed to enable vertical expansion to two floors, offering additional space for more than 120 racks on each floor.
CenturyLink’s data centers host both CenturyLink’s and customers’ environments, with a team of specialized technicians managing the environments.
CenturyLink’s data centers in Latin America received several certifications, including the Uptime Institute’s TIER III, SAP Hosting Partner, ISO/IEC 27017 and ISO/IEC 27001, reflecting its commitment to maintain the high level of quality established by international standards for data center management.
CenturyLink regularly measures and improves its data center and security services. An important part of its ongoing maintenance process includes updating and renewing the certification of its installations, the foundation for its strict information security policies, for traditional and cloud services.