Have you ever wondered where the cloud lives, or what the inside of a data center looks like? Jake Smith, a director of Data Center Platforms Marketing at Intel, demystifies the answers to those questions and more in this fascinating episode of Cyber Security Inside.

We cover:

• The infrastructure of cloud service providers and data centers

• The kinds of security measures implemented to keep massive data centers secure, and what those facilities look like

• Whether or not we, as individuals, pose any security risk as we operate via the cloud, and how those potential risks are mitigated via continuous updates

• The biggest privacy and confidential computing trends we should be paying attention to over the course of the next three to five years.

.and more! Tune in to join the conversation!

The views and opinions expressed are those of the guests and author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Intel Corporation.

Here are some key take-aways:

• Data centers are gargantuan, and they require heightened security across multiple tiers that can include everything from key cards to biometrics.

• Diligence is critical wherever the workload is being processed.

• With a server infrastructure where you have millions of servers, even small anomalies can be detected, which is vitally important in finding and detecting security vulnerabilities and reducing Defects Per Million overall.

• Security begins with the device.

• Software guard extensions and scalable applications that take advantage of SGX are crucial to the future of computing.

• And encryption is key.

Some interesting quotes from today’s episode:

“You can’t argue, ‘Well, my on-premise environment is different than my cloud environment,’ because if the data is moving from the edge to the cloud, it has to be secure, encrypted and accounted for every step of the way.”

“For many people it [the inside of a data center] looks daunting, maybe like something out of the movie The Matrix.”

“The cloud has become a mirror of us as users on the outside, and I think we have to understand that.”

“Security is a journey, it is not a point in time. It never ends. Hope is not a security strategy, and so we certainly don’t embrace hope. We actually embrace technology.”

“Encryption, encryption, encryption. Encrypt everything.”

“Only the paranoid survive, and only the most paranoid survive hackers at the scale that we’re seeing hackers come at us today.”