How to Solve for Data Fragmentation – Interconnections – The Equinix Blog
Finally, maintaining multiple copies of data sets creates a wider attack surface. Ransomware criminals only need access to one data copy in order to wreak havoc on your organization. As the old saying goes, your cybersecurity team needs to be vigilant every time, but the attackers only need to get lucky once. By creating more copies of data sets, you’re creating more opportunities for the attackers to get lucky, while placing a heavier burden on your cybersecurity team.
How can businesses address data segmentation?
Rather than creating multiple copies of data sets to be shared and stored freely across your digital ecosystem, the ideal way to address the causes and impacts of data segmentation is to create a centralized repository that aggregates systems of record from across your distributed operations.
This repository should be a part of a cloud-adjacent digital infrastructure; by storing data sets in proximity to cloud providers and other partners, you can ensure cost-effective, low-latency access to data sets for the workloads that need it. In addition, you can integrate user access policies into the data repository, thus limiting the potential for unauthorized access.
A centralized repository enables several data motion patterns that allow you to support specific workloads without creating unnecessary costs or risks. One example is the “project and delete” pattern. This is when a business creates a temporary copy of a data set to share with a provider; the copy is subsequently deleted after the provider has performed the needed compute operations against the data.
Another key aspect of cloud-adjacent digital infrastructure is interconnection, which allows you to move your data sets quickly, reliably and securely. As a general rule, the more data you have, the more you stand to benefit by adopting an interconnection solution.
Platform Equinix® has all the capabilities you need to address data segmentation and ensure you’re granting access to the right workloads at the right time. The Equinix partner ecosystem includes more than 3,000 cloud and IT service providers. In addition, our 240+ Equinix IBX® data centers spread across 70+ global metros are home to on-ramps to many top cloud providers. This means that deploying on Platform Equinix makes it easy to get close to your chosen cloud and SaaS providers.
