Securing the Stack: Risk, Resilience, and the Future of Data Center Security
Hamed Okhravi Senior Staff in Cyber Security and Resilient Systems Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
As data centers grow more critical to new AI applications, finance, and industrial operations, they’ve become prime targets for cyber, physical, and supply chain threats. This session explores strategies to identify, prioritize, and mitigate risks across the infrastructure stack, from hardware and software to organizational workflows. Topics include zero-trust architecture, threat modeling, ransomware readiness, and systemic resilience. Drawing from real-world cases and research, we’ll examine how leaders can design secure systems that are also agile and scalable.