Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1458 The Patrol on the Wall
Allianz Group is a world-class financial giant and one of the largest capital institutions in Europe.Even in the current economic crisis, they can still generate a net profit of more than 40 billion euros throughout the year.

This is mainly due to the strong credit guarantee from Allianz.

There are two famous compensation cases in the history of Allianz.

First, Allianz paid 7000 million marks for the sinking of the Titanic.At that time, Allianz was only a small company and could not afford to pay at all. It was the shareholders who took personal loans and mortgaged their assets to raise funds, and paid the compensation out of their own pockets.

The second thing is the 911 terrorist attack.

Allianz paid 15 billion euros for this.

This time they sent a very high specification to welcome Zhou Buqi. In addition to responding to the government's call to hope that Ziwei Star can come to invest, they also have their own business needs.

Zhou Buqi originally thought that he would chat with them for a while, and then talk to the people from Allianz Venture Capital Fund about Ziweixing Digital Media's project, and that would be the end of the matter.

Unexpectedly, the other party attached great importance to it!

He was directly invited to the chairman's office, and there were several important executive directors present, as if they were going to hold a board meeting.

Zhou Buqi had a headache, and quickly said: "I am really helpless in terms of policy. The insurance business in our country is...well, special. This kind of industry with low threshold and big money has always been monopolized by state-owned enterprises. Even if a joint venture enters the market, it must abide by those reasonable and unreasonable regulations. There is nothing I can do."

"No, Mr. Zhou, you misunderstood. We are not concerned with the insurance business."

"That is?"

"It's an online business."

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "There are Internet companies under Allianz?"

At this time, a middle-aged man with a square face and a knife-like carving spoke. His name is Clemens, and he is the senior vice president in charge of security affairs of Allianz Group.

Clemens said: "Allianz has no exposure to the Internet business, but Allianz Investment Fund has invested in many Internet companies."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Is there any question?"

Clemens sighed, "The recent network environment is very unstable. They have all suffered. Even the firewall of Allianz Group has been attacked many times."

"Oh, hacker!"

Zhou Buqi immediately understood what the other party meant.

This summer, hacker organizations became popular at once, launching wave after wave of attacks on Internet companies all over the world, even Silicon Valley giants like Google and Yahoo were not spared.

Google has publicly denounced that some of their intellectual property has been stolen.

However, companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, and Purple Microstar were able to remain intact under the attack.Ziweixing's ability to defend itself is determined by the cloud computing strategy.

If the Internet is compared to a boundless world, then every company is equivalent to building a house on an empty lot.

Countless Internet companies have created this virtual world together.

However, the virtual world is not safe. There will be bad guys who always want to enter other people's houses to steal things. This bad guy is called a hacker.

How can we defend against the bad guys?

It is necessary to build a circle of walls outside the house, called a firewall, that is, network security software.

With a firewall, most of the bad guys can be kept out.

However, if the house needs to be opened frequently and some tools and software are used to communicate with the outside world, there may be loopholes and infiltration by bad guys.Therefore, it is necessary to continuously patch the system and upgrade the software to prevent bad guys from taking advantage of loopholes.

However, none of this works for really good bad guys, for high-level hackers.

The level of bad guys is very high and they can jump in directly over the wall.

How to prevent high-level hackers from overcoming the wall?
In fact, it is also simple, that is, assign some people to be on duty day and night on the wall, and call out when bad guys are found trying to break in through the wall.

This duty team is a fixed network security team.

Companies such as Google and Yahoo that do not have a security business do not need to maintain a group of network security teams that have nothing to do with their main business.It just entrusted a third party to help him build a high firewall.

However, no matter how high the wall is, bad guys can climb over if there are no on-duty personnel guarding the wall.

Even giants like Google have been recruited, and their homes have been stolen.

Those small Internet companies are more likely to be stolen by bad guys.Many times after bad guys steal something, they will extort money.Most companies pay a lot of money to buy the data back.

A few years ago, Ziweixing's "firewall" was also a third-party service purchased, so the cost was lower.Micropoint Antivirus is aimed at individual users, not corporate users.

However, since last year, Ziweixing has made business adjustments under the leadership of Zhang Yiming, and the security business has begun to develop to the enterprise level.For Ziweixing's firewall, there is no need to entrust others, and you can build the wall yourself.

The reason for such business adjustment is cloud computing.

This is also the reason why Amazon, a sales company looked down upon by the IT circle in Silicon Valley, can resist hacker attacks.

The initial cloud computing business mainly engaged in server leasing business.

It's like Internet companies don't need to build their own homes. Cloud computing companies have planned a piece of land and built apartments there!

For Internet companies, they don't need to spend a lot of money to build a house, they can just rent an apartment directly.If you don't want to live, just return the lease.

As for security protection, cloud computing companies also provide it.

Cloud computing companies need to build the largest and most secure firewall to enclose the entire apartment complex.That’s not to mention, in order to ensure the safety of the tenants, the cloud computing company will also keep a large number of top security experts, constantly patrolling and guarding the walls, and knocking down bad guys when they see them!
With such a security team foundation, companies like Amazon and Ziwei are less likely to be stolen by bad guys.

This can be regarded as one of the benefits of cloud computing business.

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Allianz should be fine, right? You must have an excellent and huge network security team."

Clemens was a little embarrassed.

Zhou Buqi opened his eyes wide, "Isn't it? Could it be..."

Clemens said: "Allianz Group is a multinational group, and it has business in almost every country and region in the world, including your Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions. In some small places, the revenue is limited, the profit is very small, and they have no ability to raise money. A security team."

Zhou Buqi frowned and said, "This is not acceptable! You are a financial company, and information security is the most important thing!"

Clemens reassured: "Important data will not be stored locally, only some temporary data will be stored in the local server, and nothing will be lost."

Zhou Buqi said in a deep voice: "Even if it is like this, it is very dangerous!"

Powerful hackers can follow the clues, first invade the local server, and then connect to the headquarters' information network through the local server.Once the security team at the headquarters only focused on patrolling the wall, but ignored the possibility of someone digging a tunnel to sneak in, accidents would easily occur.

"So we're pinning our hopes on cloud computing," Clemens said.

Zhou Buqi laughed immediately, "Mr. Clemens is very familiar with cloud computing engineering, and he has great confidence in Ziwei Star."

"I've been to Hamburg twice, and I've been in touch with your cloud experts twice," Clemens said.

"is it?"

Zhou smiled politely and awkwardly.

He doesn't know that.

Ziweixing is building a cloud data center in Hamburg, which is still in the infrastructure stage.Will there be cloud computing experts in town?I don't know whether they were dispatched from abroad or recruited from Germany.

Clemens sighed: "It's okay for Allianz to say that if there are some minor problems, we can also deal with them. It is nothing more than hiring a larger security team. But many startups we invest in are very troublesome. Last week, the server of an Internet company in Berlin was locked, and the other party demanded 100 million US dollars, which was like targeted killing.”

"Spot clear?"

"They just completed a $500 million financing round, and they left a letter saying that they won't let the startup company go bankrupt, and only take a 20% commission."

"Cough cough..."

Zhou Buqi almost laughed out loud.

Haha!

The old-fashioned Germans are quite humorous!

But there is no way, the cloud computing business has just started, and Ziweixing can't provide much help in a short time.

Zhou Buqi said sternly: "The cloud computing center in Hamburg is estimated to be officially launched next year. We welcome Allianz's investment projects to enter. Ziweixing will definitely provide the best security guarantee. This year, Ziweiyun has already formulated plans to invest in Europe and America The US$10 billion cloud computing plan focuses on the European region. We will strive to open up mainstream countries and regions in the world within three years."

There are five main reasons why cloud computing business can be promoted.

Number one, security, the days of extortion are too bad.

Second, the government and enterprises are poor due to the economic crisis, so it is more economical to purchase cloud computing services.

Third, in the new environment of the mobile Internet, countless new entrepreneurs have emerged to develop various apps for ios, Android, Symbian and other systems, and hundreds of thousands of startup companies will be born all over the world.

Fourth, with more and more data, the amount of calculation is too large, and the computing power of the local server is simply not enough.

Fifth, the Internet has pushed globalization to the extreme.

Except for super giants like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Ziwei Star, who have the strength to build branches all over the world and spend a lot of money to buy servers, most multinational companies do not have such strength.

Even the Allianz Group can't do it, and it has to purchase third-party services in some less important countries and regions.

"Next year?" Clemens frowned, very depressed, "What should we do now?"

Zhou Buqi said: "In fact, there is no need to panic too much. The recent wave of hacker attacks on the Internet is mainly a retaliatory action. It won't take too long. I guess it will be turned off next month."

Clemens was slightly taken aback, "Retaliatory action?"

Zhou Buqi is a senior industry insider, of course he knew, "Well, it has something to do with the sentencing of a case."

(End of this chapter)