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Learn moreMany enterprises now operate in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, creating increased entry points and interconnections that attackers exploit to steal valuable data or disrupt operations. If an intruder were to infiltrate your network today, how quickly could it be traced and contained? Robust data center security provides the visibility and control needed to detect threats early and eliminate blind spots.
Our data center cybersecurity solutions combine threat intelligence with continuous monitoring and automated response to maintain the integrity of your hybrid infrastructure. This unified approach ensures consistent visibility, policy, and controls across on-premise, private, and public clouds so every workload stays protected.
Validate alerts using real-time Threat Intelligence specific to your data center environment for adversary activities across the internet and dark web.
Built for enterprise data center security and enriched with Threat Intelligence feeds, external Attack Surface Management continuously discovers and risk-scores internet-facing assets and exposures across hybrid environments.
Keep your data center compliant with ISO/IEC 27001, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 with Cybersecurity Audit and Consulting, and ensure your operations meet recognized data center security levels such as Uptime Institute Tier I–IV and TIA-942 Rated-1 to Rated-4.
Model real adversary tactics against your hypervisors, virtual networks, storage, and orchestration layers with architecture Vulnerability Assessments that are aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
Detect and contain lateral movement, C2, and data exfiltration with Managed XDR, automated through integrations with your SIEM or SOAR.
The growing complexity of interconnected systems, increasing attack surfaces, and the need to manage and secure vast quantities of sensitive data, while maintaining regulatory compliance, create constant security pressures. Combining advanced technologies and decades of frontline cybersecurity experience, Group-IB’s data center cybersecurity solutions help you protect critical systems and speed containment in hybrid environments.
Data centers are high-value targets due to the vast amounts of data housed and the potential for significant financial disruption. AI and automation make human oversight necessary to avoid introducing new security challenges. Organizations need a multifaceted approach to data center security management that combines intelligence-led threat detection, phishing and scam takedown, and expert response.
The global average data breach cost in 2025
Group-IB Business Email Protection detects and blocks all email-borne attacks, from spam and phishing attempts to malware delivery and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. Advanced features like URL analysis and customized malware detonation catch evasive threats before they reach your data center.
Lookalike domains, fake sites, and impersonation create easy entry points. Digital Risk Protection finds phishing sites, fake domains, and impersonation that target your users and supply chain. This removes paths to account takeover, reduces data center exposure, and gives your SOC clear evidence for rapid takedowns.
Group-IB Threat Intelligence monitors underground forums, marketplaces, and breach repositories to detect leaked credentials and datasets linked to your organization. Impact assessments based on real-time adversary-centric context and IOCs guide rapid response that protects your data center security.
Sophisticated attacks use lateral movement, command and control, and data exfiltration to evade point tools. Managed XDR correlates cloud telemetry with threat intel to surface real incidents quickly and automate containment via SIEM or SOAR. IR Readiness Assessment and experts prepare your SOC with playbooks, secure evidence handling, and communications to limit business impact.
97% of breached organizations that experienced an AI-related security incident lack proper AI access controls and governance policies. Security leaders should reassess their data center cybersecurity frameworks, which increasingly host critical AI workloads. Group-IB AI Red Teaming examines various layers of your AI stack with a focus on exploitable behavior, system misconfigurations, and high-impact risks.
Hybrid infrastructures introduce unknown internet-facing assets, misconfigurations, and third-party interconnects. Insufficient monitoring and lack of comprehensive tools limit visibility and hinder your ability to detect and respond to threats effectively. Enterprises must secure workloads spread across various cloud platforms and manage multiple levels of access control and data center security standards.
The average time for organizations to identify and contain a breach. Closing visibility gaps is the fastest way to shorten that window.
Unknown external assets and misconfigurations serve as easy entry points. Attack Surface Management continuously monitors and discovers internet-facing domains, IPs, and cloud services and assigns risk scores. This reduces blind spots and directs efforts to the most critical exposures.
Continuous monitoring allows you to maintain the highest level of visibility regarding all events that could affect your data center security. Managed XDR provides real-time monitoring across endpoints, network, cloud environments, and email. It includes network traffic analysis and malware detonation to enhance true situational awareness.
Effective threat detection requires accurate context on real adversaries. Group-IB Threat Intelligence tells you when attackers are planning to target your facilities, if your IP space or ASN appears in botnet and C2 telemetry, and if compromised nodes inside your infrastructure are being abused for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
A single organization might run workloads in an on-premises data center, a private cloud, and two public clouds simultaneously. Edge and IoT devices deployed in distributed environments often lack enterprise-grade security controls, operate unattended, and introduce unmanaged connections. The real challenge is enforcing consistent data center security policies across distributed workloads and interconnects.
of organizations rely on a hybrid multicloud environment for data-intensive workloads
New cloud accounts, regions, and edge or IoT gateways create public endpoints that slip past central oversight. Attack Surface Management helps you enforce consistent policies by mapping internet-facing domains, IPs, storage, and service endpoints across providers and edge locations, linking each asset to its owner and environment.
Weak network segmentation leaves data centers vulnerable to lateral movement. Vulnerability Assessment finds segmentation gaps and misconfigurations and delivers concrete fixes to ensure the right access to sensitive systems.
Group-IB Red Teaming recreates attacker TTPs across on-premises and cloud to exercise lateral movement, path analysis, and detection handoffs. This proves the effectiveness of your data center security and highlights the fastest routes to containment.
Modern data centers depend on a complex web of vendors, open-source components, and third-party cloud services. A weak supplier or over-privileged insider can introduce malware, backdoors, or data leaks that bypass your perimeter controls. The challenge is verifying trust across the software and hardware supply chain while maintaining strong access governance for employees and partners.
of breaches in 2025 involved a partner or supplier, which has doubled from the previous year.
Persistent threats hide in legacy systems, stale accounts, and overlooked admin paths. Group-IB Compromise Assessment performs host and network forensics, historical log review, and indicator sweeps to uncover active threats and misconfigurations before they escalate.
SaaS links, CI/CD dependencies, and third-party access multiply entry points so one compromised supplier can pivot into your core at scale. If you don’t have an end-to-end vendor map with clear ownership, you can’t measure, control, or quickly respond to risk. Managed XDR and Attack Surface Management help you monitor across boundaries and improve coordinated response with suppliers.
Point-in-time, checkbox assessments without evidence or continuous validation create false assurance and let supplier weaknesses sit until they’re exploited while accountability and response lag. Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing reduce downstream risk by validating third-party integrations, remote access, and exposed APIs.
AI models, plugins, and data pipelines rely on third parties that can introduce exfiltration and integrity risks. AI Red Teaming executes real-world attack scenarios against your AI supply chain to test prompt injection, data leakage, and unsafe integrations.
The complexity of managing compliance in hybrid and multi-cloud environments makes data privacy and sovereignty an ongoing challenge for organizations across multiple jurisdictions. Data center security solutions must enforce data residency, map controls to assets, and produce audit ready evidence across providers and regions. Without this capability, organizations face fines and legal exposure.
GDPR breach notifications are reported on average per day from Jan 2024 to Jan 2025
Audits fail when controls do not run consistently. Group-IB SOC Consulting helps data centers build and operationalize the right use cases and detections for hybrid environments. Collaborating with CERTs worldwide and law enforcement agencies, our robust SOC framework aligns playbooks and reporting with your compliance requirements.
Data center security today means clearer risk visibility and the ability to respond faster when threats emerge while keeping cloud and AI spend under control. This requires enterprises to harden the infrastructure layer and enforce consistent policies for multi-cloud workloads and interconnections..
Group-IB’s data center cybersecurity solutions integrate advanced detection, monitoring, and response capabilities across hybrid environments. Our intelligence-led approach ensures that the same data center security standards for access, segmentation, and encryption are applied. The result? Infrastructure is used as intended, workloads run in the right environment without introducing new risks, and costly resources are safeguarded from misuse.
We offer a dedicated, experienced team of experts who specialize in cybersecurity solutions. They can assess your specific needs and design a comprehensive security plan tailored to your organization's data center security requirements.
Data center security services and solutions combine physical and cybersecurity measures to safeguard facilities and the IT systems they host. They include physical access control and monitoring, along with assessments, hardening, continuous monitoring, and incident response to protect data, applications, and infrastructure from attack or disruption.
Group-IB provides data center cybersecurity solutions through architecture reviews, vulnerability testing, segmentation design, and 24/7 threat hunting, detection, and response.
No. Data center security covers your own facility and on-premise systems, both physical and cyber. Cloud security protects your workloads on a provider’s infrastructure under a shared responsibility model. The cloud provider secures the physical data center and cloud platform while you secure identities, configurations, applications, and data.
Continuous monitoring reduces attacker dwell time, detects ransomware and lateral movement early, and enables rapid containment. Group-IB’s Managed XDR delivers 24/7 monitoring and response backed by expert support.
Organizations should use a layered approach across physical and cyber domains. Physical security includes perimeter controls, surveillance, and resilient power/cooling. Data center security solutions that help secure your digital assets and hybrid infrastructure include IAM and logical access policies (such as RBAC, least privilege, and MFA), network segmentation and hardening, continuous monitoring (EDR and SIEM), encryption, and incident response readiness.
Hybrid data center security refers to a security framework that implements a consistent set of policies and controls across on-premises data center infrastructure and multiple public clouds. Based on Zero Trust principles, such as identity-centric access, least privilege, and continuous verification, the approach integrates and standardizes IAM, network segmentation, centralized telemetry, and incident response across on-premises and cloud environments.
Managed security services combine professional cybersecurity expertise with advanced technology capabilities to enhance your data center security capabilities and take the burden of constant monitoring and alert management from internal teams. We deliver this through managed detection and response (MDR) services with threat intelligence and hunting, continuous monitoring, and rapid incident response to ensure vigilant oversight of hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Through Group-IB Vulnerability Assessment, our experts evaluate your data center security infrastructure, applications, and configurations, then provide a prioritized remediation plan tailored to your specific data center environment.
Data centers can provide security add-ons built on Group-IB’s products, allowing them to create new revenue streams while offering customers immediate protection. These managed add-ons include threat intelligence and C2 feeds, Digital Risk Protection to monitor brand and domain abuse, Attack Surface Management, and DDoS detection and mitigation services.
