Iran’s Revolutionary Guards just named 18 US tech firms as military targets. The age of the civilian data centre is over.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) designated 18 US technology firms as military targets, escalating cyber warfare to civilian data infrastructure. This action exposes US cloud, data center, and tech infrastructure providers to potential retaliatory cyberattacks under geopolitical conflict escalation. Organizations must prepare for increased targeting of critical IT assets.

At 8pm Tehran time on Tuesday, a new kind of front line was drawn, not through desert terrain or along a disputed border, but through the server farms, cloud regions, and corporate campuses of America’s largest technology companies. The Islamic Revolutionary …