Why modernising infrastructure can mitigate cyber threats

Cyber threats are rising, with a 44% year-on-year increase in cyber-attacks underlining how important security is in the age of AI.

Despite this, many businesses are failing to upgrade legacy IT infrastructure – and leaving themselves vulnerable.

“I find it very strange the organisations that I speak to where their ability to just patch in the cycle might be six months apart,” says Rhys Powell, senior black belt, Managed Cloud Services at Red Hat, speaking in a recent CIO webcast. “We’re seeing out in the world today how easy it appears for criminals… to be able to get into infrastructure and to be able to take advantage of that.”

Additionally, data leaks caused by unsecured employee use of AI tools are now posing a new, potent risk for businesses, Powell notes.

How should IT leaders modernise infrastructure and address these security threats?

Powell says that a key benefit of the containerised journey “is that it is built with security first.”

However, the right expertise and approach are needed to make this approach work: Red Hat research shows two out of three businesses using containerised technology delayed or slowed down deployment over security concerns.

With OpenShift’s managed service, a site reliability engineering team proactively fixes problems in the background, Powell explains, allowing containerisation to be implemented smoothly and securely.

With underlying infrastructure security handled by Red Hat, businesses can focus on making sure that the application layer is as secure, monitored and controlled as possible.

That enables security teams to roll out fixes far more quickly and with far more confidence than before.