| Join Our Upcoming Webinar: Vendor Blind Spots: Managing Third-Party Cyber Risk in Your Data Center Supply Chain and Operations
Security debt in a data center is not usually accumulated over years. Most of it is created in a few weeks, during commissioning and handover, compounded by errors and inefficient security controls.
During integration testing, network segmentation controls are often bypassed to speed up schedules. However, without a closed-loop change management process, the network frequently remains permanently flat. Additionally, physical segmentation does not guarantee logical isolation, and vendor or administrative accounts created for commissioning are often never revoked.
Default credentials survive on critical server controllers that were never meant to be reachable. Remote support tunnels are opened so an OEM can complete acceptance testing and quietly become permanent. This webinar will trace where the debt is created, why the pressures that created it are structural rather than careless, and what can be changed without extending the program. It treats handover as a control point: what should be verified before acceptance, who should verify it, and why the party best placed to check is rarely the party doing the checking. For operators building or expanding, this is about intervening at the cheapest possible point in the lifecycle. For organizations taking occupancy, it is about what to ask of at design stage and how to know and bridge your gaps before a cyber attacker exploits it. |
