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Data centre survey from Forbes Insights and
Vertiv reveals lack of preparedness
engineers from various industries around
the world. The results indicate a troubling
lack of planning and preparation for
today’s evolving data ecosystem. A closer
examination of the results reveals a stark
contrast between executives and engineers:
11% of executives say their data centres are
updated ahead of current needs while just
1% of engineers say the same.
Pierre Havenga, Managing Director of
Vertiv MEA, said: “Across the Middle East,
we are experiencing a drastic increase in
demand from customers driven by wholesale
requirements as well as uptake to improve
efficiency in their existing data centres.”
Just 29% of data centre decision-makers
say their current facilities are meeting their
needs, and just 6% say their data centres
are updated ahead of their requirements.
Those were the findings included in a new
report from Forbes Insights’ research: The
Modern Data Center: How IT is adapting
to new technologies and hyperconnectivity,
which examined the results of a survey
of 150 data centre executives and
The survey also revealed that respondents
are bullish on self-configuring and selfhealing
data centres. A total of 24% said
more than half of their data centres will be
self-configuring by 2025 and 32% said more
than half would be self-healing.
SANS survey shows evolution of Cyber
Threat Intelligence
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survey from SANS Institute
has revealed how Cyber Threat
Intelligence (CTI) has evolved in
EMEA. The SANS 2020 CTI Survey
has reported that CTI has evolved
from small, ad-hoc tasks performed
disparately across an organisation to,
in many cases, robust programmes with
their own staff, tools and processes that
support the entire organisation.
“In the past three years, we have seen an
increase in the percentage of respondents
choosing to have a dedicated team over a
single individual responsible for the entire
CTI programme,” said Robert M Lee,
Survey Author and Instructor, at SANS
Institute, a leader in cybersecurity training
and certifications.
In fact, survey results indicate that
just under 50% of respondents’
organisations have a team dedicated
to CTI, up from 41% in 2019. In total,
more than 84% of organisations
reported having some kind of resource
focusing on CTI.
While the number of organisations with
dedicated threat intelligence teams
is growing, results also demonstrate a
move toward collaboration, with 61%
reporting that CTI tasks are handled by
a combination of in-house and service
provider teams.
“We continue to see an emphasis
on partnering with others, whether
through a paid service provider
relationship or through informationsharing
groups or programmes,” said
Lee. “Collaboration within organisations
is also on the rise, with many
respondents reporting that their CTI
teams are part of a co-ordinated effort
across the organisation.” •
Robert M Lee, Survey Author and Instructor
at SANS Institute
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