The Crucial Roles of AI and Data Center Colocation in IT Security by Ben Ferguson

Few things in the world of computing are receiving more buzz these days than Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), the Internet of Things (IoT), and Cloud Computing. Where once these were considered to be bleeding-edge technologies that only the most forward-thinking IT organizations were using, the adoption rates of these solutions are increasing exponentially, and more organizations are incorporating these once bleeding-edge technologies into their IT strategies by the day (so much so that I actually heard a commercial regarding IoT on sports talk radio the other day, but that's another story). This article will address how the need to defend the rapidly expanding web will fundamentally change both the security tools we use as well as the data center environment itself. As IoT becomes more-and-more established, the number of devices and other assets connected to the internet grows exponentially. This inevitably increases the potential attack surface for ransomware campaigns and other types of cyber-attack.