t cht lk over other segments of the data center and triggers ransomware actions with immense destructive power .
t cht lk over other segments of the data center and triggers ransomware actions with immense destructive power .
Above all , what affects the data center affects the multi-cloud world and the digital processes that support people ’ s lives .
In this hyper-distributed and complex universe , there is no more room for security solutions focused on perimeter protection . Those who still follow this model have no visibility into the threats focused on the complex and micro-segmented virtual world that makes up the modern data center .
Aware of this fact , Gartner has developed a tailor-made discipline to increase the resilience of increasingly complex , heterogeneous and segmented data centers .
This is the Cloud Workload Protection Program ( CWPP ) – a cloud load protection platform .
As each data center is a patchwork quilt with different generations of networks , systems and applications being processed , CWPP seeks to be a response to this situation .
In a multicloud , workloads can be distributed across a variety of virtualized environments . Each segment represents a specific workload . Workloads can have data stored in different physical locations . This is very common in data centers and hybrid networks .
The workload is essentially the software , processes and resources required to perform the data processing work .
An organization ’ s accounting department has a workload that is likely separate from the workload of the sales department . Production has a separate workload to itself .
All of these workloads need to be secure . According to the organization ’ s business rule , these payloads often need to interact with each other as well .
In the CWPP model , the protection of the workload processed in the data center spans virtual machines , containers and serverless devices in both public and private clouds .
The features of Microsegmentation of CWPP platforms , in particular , allow security teams to define specific areas of the data center and then establish security policies to protect them .
You can go from the whole to a single virtual machine , container or specific workload . The goal is to prevent cross-client access by unauthorized users or external intrusion attempts .
The next generation of data center security solutions are built to support the explosion of data running in heterogeneous environments that exists today .
By 2025 , according to a study by TechTarget , humanity ’ s collective data will reach the 175-zettabyte mark .
CWPPs solutions provide 24x7 visibility and control over this entire universe , regardless of the location of the data center .
Gartner ’ s recommended strategy ensures consolidated protection and visualization of all data centers , wherever they are deployed .
It is such a magnitude that only cyber security platforms that deeply exploit AI and ML resources can act in a predictive and fully automated way to preserve the data center from the action of digital gangs .
CWPP platforms use AI and ML to perform the ‘ matching ’ between data center workloads and the
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