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companies brings a key challenge around the security of networks .
“ It ’ s left the door open for hackers and bad actors to get into these networks and cause serious problems ,” says O ’ Neil . The problem then it seems is that as market players move infrastructure towards cloud data centers they do so with the wrong mentality . As O ’ Neil notes , most organizations focus on the security and segmentation of their data centers with a ‘ front door ’ or perimeter mentality .
“ Look at it like this . You always lock your front door in your house . But once somebody ’ s in your house , you really should be locking all the rooms ’ doors so that you can control access to all the individual rooms .”
With the immaturity of tools at their disposal , thanks to a lack in investment , dangerous situations can arise for organizations . This is especially the case as O ’ Neil believes it is only within the past three years that the marketplace has started to catch up to the notion that network access control , and the security surrounding it , is one of the most important components of any edge network control , network segmentation or micro-segmentation .
Navigating this changing marketplace , and supporting these organizations through it , forms what O ’ Neil strives to achieve with PwC . For him it becomes a task of enabling a shift in thought process , from a development , deployment and management and operations point of view , as well as from a tool set perspective .
The problem he feels is that the demands of the data center customer have driven companies to invest
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