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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 4 billion euros throughout the year.

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

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

First, the Titanic sunk, and Allianz paid 70 million marks in compensation. At that time, Allianz was just a small company and could not afford to pay compensation at all. The shareholders took personal loans and pledged their assets to raise funds, and paid the compensation out of their own pockets.

The second thing was the 911 terrorist attacks.

Allianz paid 1.5 billion euros in compensation.

This time they sent a very high-level welcome to Zhou Buqi. In addition to responding to the government's call and hoping that Ziweixing would come to invest, they also had their own business needs.

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

Unexpectedly, the other party took it very seriously!

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

Zhou Buqi had a headache and said quickly: "I really can't do anything about policy matters. The insurance business in our country is rather...well, special. This kind of industry with low threshold and high profits has always been monopolized by state-owned enterprises and foreign companies. Even if a joint venture enters the market, it must abide by the reasonable and unreasonable regulations. There is nothing I can do."

"No, no, Mr. Zhou, you misunderstood. Our focus is not on the insurance business."

"That is?"

"It's an online business."

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

At this time, a middle-aged man with a square face like a knife spoke. His name was Clemens, and he was 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, "Any questions?"

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 groups suddenly became popular, launching waves of attacks on Internet companies around the world. Even Silicon Valley giants like Google and Yahoo were not immune.

Google has publicly condemned the theft of some of its intellectual property.

However, companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, and MSI were able to remain intact under the attack. Ziweixing's ability to defend itself is determined by cloud computing's 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 either. There are bad people who always want to enter other people’s houses and steal things. These bad people are called hackers.

How can you defend yourself against bad guys?

A wall should be built outside the house, called a firewall, which is network security software.

With a firewall, most 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 it may be penetrated by bad guys. Therefore, the system must be constantly patched and the software must be constantly upgraded to prevent bad guys from taking advantage of loopholes.

However, for really powerful bad guys and high-level hackers, these are useless.

The bad guys are very high-level and can just climb over the wall and get in.

How to prevent high-level hackers from circumventing the wall?

In fact, it's simple. Just put some people on duty day and night on the wall, and call out bad guys when they find that they want to climb over the wall and break in.

This duty team is a fixed network security team.

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

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

Even giants like Google have been affected, and their homes have been robbed.

Those Internet companies that come and go are more likely to be stolen by bad people. Many times bad guys will extort money after stealing something. Most companies have to pay a lot of money to buy their data back.

In the past few years, Ziweixing's "firewall" was also purchased as a third-party service, which made the cost lower. Weidian 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 towards the enterprise level. With Ziweixing's firewall, you don't need to entrust others to build it yourself.

The reason for such business adjustments is cloud computing.

This is also the reason why Amazon, a sales company that is looked down upon by Silicon Valley IT circles, can withstand hacker attacks.

In the early days of the cloud computing business, the main business was server leasing.

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

For Internet companies, they no longer need to spend a lot of money to build a house, they can just rent an apartment. If you don’t want to live there anymore, just cancel the lease.

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

The cloud computing company needs to build the largest and most secure firewall to surround the entire apartment area. Not only that, in order to ensure the safety of tenants, cloud computing companies will also maintain a large number of top security experts to patrol and guard the walls constantly, and knock down bad guys when they see them!

With such a security team foundation, companies like Amazon and Ziweixing are less likely to have bad guys come in and steal things.

This is also one of the benefits of cloud computing business.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Allianz should be fine, right? You must have an excellent and large network security team."

Clemens was embarrassed.

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

Clemens said: "Allianz Group is a multinational group with operations 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 profits are small, and there is no ability to support A security team.”

Zhou Buqi frowned and said, "That's not okay! You are a financial company, and information security is the most important thing!"

Clemens expressed relief: "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 so, it is very dangerous!"

A powerful hacker can follow the clue and 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 focuses on patrolling the walls and ignores the possibility of someone digging tunnels and sneaking in, something could easily happen.

Clemens said: "So we have to pin our hopes on cloud computing."

Zhou Buqi suddenly smiled, "Mr. Clemens knows a lot about cloud computing engineering and has great confidence in Ziweixing."

Clemens said: "I have been to Hamburg twice and contacted your cloud computing experts twice."

"Yeah?"

Zhou Buqi smiled politely but awkwardly.

He didn't know that.

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

Clemens sighed: "It's okay for Allianz. If there are some minor problems, we can deal with them. It's nothing more than hiring a larger security team. But many startups we invest in are very troublesome. Just above Last week, the server of an Internet company in Berlin was locked, and the other party demanded $1 million, which was like a targeted killing."

"Targeted killings?"

"They just completed a $5 million round of financing and left a letter saying they would not bankrupt the startup and would only take a 20% commission."

"Ahem..."

Zhou Buqi almost laughed.

Ha ha!

The old-fashioned Germans are quite humorous!

But there is no way, the cloud computing business has just started, and Ziweixing will not be able to provide much help in a short period of time.

Zhou Buqi said sternly: "The cloud computing center in Hamburg is expected to be officially launched next year. We welcome Allianz's investment projects to enter, and Ziweixing will definitely provide the best security. This year, Ziweiyun has made plans to invest in Europe and the United States. The US$1 billion cloud computing plan focuses on the European region. We strive to connect the world’s mainstream countries and regions within three years.”

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

First, safety, the days of extortion are too uncomfortable.

Second, during the economic crisis, governments and enterprises have become poor, 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. Hundreds of thousands of startups will be born around the world.

Fourth, there is more and more data, the amount of calculation is too great, 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 Ziweixing, who have the strength to build branches all over the world and spend a lot of money to purchase servers, the vast majority of multinational companies do not have such strength.

Even Allianz Group cannot do this and has to purchase third-party services in some less important countries and regions.

"Next year?" Clemens frowned, feeling depressed, "What now?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Actually, there is no need to panic. The recent wave of hacker attacks on the Internet are mainly retaliatory actions. It won't last too long. I guess it will be shut down next month."

Clemens was slightly startled, "Retaliatory action?"

Zhou Buqi is a senior person in the industry. Of course he knew, "Well, it is related to the sentencing of a case."