INTRODUCTION
In the age of disruption, big data is a powerful catalyst for businesses to achieve tangible growth. It helps corporations track
consumer behavior, measure efficiency and forecast market trends. When leveraged correctly, the actionable insights gleaned from
big data can dramatically increase a company’s bottom line.
As more and more corporations are turning to data driven-solutions to drive business growth, the value of said data becomes more
evident to cybercriminals. In turn, cases of data theft and exploitation have become rampant across several industries. Where there
is money, there will be crime. As more companies harness the power of big data and integrate cloud-based computing with their
on-premise IT infrastructure, they risk making themselves more vulnerable to increasingly innovative hacks.
With the current state of cybersecurity in flux, data centers are bolstering their efforts to protect valuable information from being
hacked. Data center operators such as Alibaba Cloud are adopting more sophisticated strategies to guard data from being breached.
A report from Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that the cybersecurity market will be worth US$120 billion by this year
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report predicts that by 2021, the global market will have spent US$1 trillion on cybersecurity initiatives.
In this whitepaper, we will explore current trends in cybercrime, China’s data protection landscape and measures data center
operators can take to secure businesses’ cloud-based data storage.
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