The zero-trust security model, founded on the principle of “never trust, always verify,” is rapidly becoming the gold standard for modern enterprise security. But when this model is applied to a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) environment—a platform prized for its tightly integrated, single-vendor simplicity—a critical tension emerges. This challenge is particularly acute in regions with accelerating AI adoption, where securing dynamic, data-intensive projects demands a reassessment of foundational infrastructure, including the viability of HCI for AI workloads in India. While HCI’s centralized management can streamline the deployment of micro-segmentation policies and unified monitoring, its inherent “convergence” can also create blind spots and brittle trust assumptions that sophisticated attackers can exploit. Many enterprises successfully implement strong identity-based access controls yet miss the subtle but crucial risks in HCI’s shared resource pools, internal east-west traffic, and hypervisor-level vulnerabilities. This infographic dissects the unique security landscape of HCI through a zero-trust lens, examining which principles are a natural fit, which architectural features break the model, and the common—yet dangerous—oversights that leave organizations falsely confident in their HCI security posture.
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