Mark Chadwick, Cloud Solutions Architecture Director, Huawei Cloud South Africa. (Image: Supplied)

Much is made of the cloud and the benefits of being able to access it from anywhere, but for the cloud to be effective, two things are vital: you will need suitable and stable connectivity, and you will need to ensure strong security, in order to protect your data and applications from outside access and tampering.

In fact, in 2022, tens of millions of ransomware incidents were recorded, and more than 20 000 new security vulnerabilities occurred worldwide. As a carrier of cloud infrastructure, Huawei Cloud defends against more than 100 billion network attacks, more than one billion DDoS attacks, more than 500 million application attacks, and hundreds of millions of brute force attacks on the cloud every year.