How tech giants are safeguarding your data at their mammoth facilities

NEW DELHI: With the dramatic rise in Internet fraud and data breaches in the past couple of years amid nation-state actors now threatening critical and sensitive government data, it has become crucial for the tech companies to put in place top-of-the-line measures to stay ahead of hackers.

Since both the consumer and critical data are saved within massive data centres globally, safeguarding the facilities from global-scale cyber attacks has become the top priority for giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook, among others.

Not just on the ground, Microsoft has even deployed an experimental, shipping container-size data centre on the seafloor near Scotland’s Orkney Islands to help coastal communities connect to the Internet in a secure and efficient way.