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Diversity of defense

Diversity of defense

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Diversity of defense

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- [Presenter] While the single control may deter some criminals, multiple defenses are more likely to fend off a wide variety of attacks. In order to achieve this defense, you can leverage geographical diversity, technical diversity and distributed systems to your benefit. Geographical diversity is primarily an availability control. It means that you maintain systems in a variety of physical locations. It's become common practice for infrastructure-as-a-service providers to maintain clusters of data centers around the world. They do this for resiliency. If your systems in one data center become available due to anything from a power outage to a distributed denial of service attack, you can quickly route your traffic to another data center and minimize the impact to your end users. The notion of geographic diversity as a security control has been a core principle in backup and recovery practices for years. Technical…

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