The cloud service provider is the digital technology and intelligence backbone of the Alibaba group.
Its defense will be made through a mix of inverting the playing field, using new capabilities and putting together a top team of former Israeli cyber intelligence officials.
A new company led by an ex-chief of IDF intelligence Unit 8200 aims to make the cloud defendable against cyberattacks.
According to some estimates, over 95% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms by 2025, up from 30% in 2021.