Data Centers as Strategic Assets—and Targets

Jim LaBonty writes about the viability of data centers as strategic cybersecurity and kinetic targets in times of conflict, and what security leaders should be doing to protect these strategic assets.

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Data centers have been targeted for kinetic attacks during the ongoing Iran war, and given their strategic prioritization during the conflict, they could be targeted for cyberattacks as well. Nexus contributor James LaBonty explains the risk and potential vulnerabilities, including building management systems and other cyber-physical systems.

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Data centers have been targeted for kinetic attacks during the ongoing Iran war, and given their strategic prioritization during the conflict, they could be targeted for cyberattacks as well. Nexus contributor James LaBonty explains the risk and potential vulnerabilities, including building management systems and other cyber-physical systems.

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Rui Mella Jr., Cybersecurity Manager at Ascenty, explains how Latin American data center operators have achieved continuous, granular visibility into their critical assets and potential vulnerabilities, resulting in effective risk mitigation. This improved oversight is essential for maintaining complete control and security of their infrastructure.

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Data centers have been targeted for kinetic attacks during the ongoing Iran war, and given their strategic prioritization during the conflict, they could be targeted for cyberattacks as well. Nexus contributor James LaBonty explains the risk and potential vulnerabilities, including building management systems and other cyber-physical systems.

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Protecting Physical, Digital Security of Data Centers During Conflict

Rui Mella Jr., Cybersecurity Manager at Ascenty, explains how Latin American data center operators have achieved continuous, granular visibility into their critical assets and potential vulnerabilities, resulting in effective risk mitigation. This improved oversight is essential for maintaining complete control and security of their infrastructure.

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At Nexus 2025, we sat down with Bruno Carvalho, IT manager for the Hospital Felicio Rocho in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, who describes the need to achieve greater granular visibility, ensuring the integrity of all aspects encompassing hospitals and the healthcare sector as a whole.

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Bruno Carvalho on How Visibility Enables Healthcare Cybersecurity

At Nexus 2025, we sat down with Bruno Carvalho, IT manager for the Hospital Felicio Rocho in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, who describes the need to achieve greater…

On this episode of the Claroty Nexus Podcast, Dan Gunter, CEO and founder of Insane Cyber, lays out the challenges—and sometimes steep costs—of generating data that’s truly representative of the production environment rather than exclusively relying on a lab environment or emulation.

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Imminent National Cyber Strategy May Lean on Offense at the Expense of Defense

OT cybersecurity expert Mike Holcomb joins the Nexus Podcast live from S4 Conference in Miami to discuss how state actors may be leveraging hacktivists to target operational technology (OT). Holcomb has delineated these groups in what he calls a Converged Actor Framework that categorizes threat actors by the impact and frequency of their incidents. A converged actor is potentially the riskiest given the potential for high frequency high impact incidents.

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