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Huawei Cloud Security Debuts at GISEC 2024, SecMaster2.0 Wins “Cloud Security Innovator of the Year”

Apr 25, 2024

[Dubai, UAE, April 25, 2024] Huawei Cloud Security makes an impressive debut at GISEC Global 2024, showcasing its future-oriented cloud security governance framework, full-stack cloud-native security system, topnotch AI-empowered cloud security innovations, and exceptional cloud security best practices. During GISEC, Huawei Cloud launches its security operations center SecMaster 2.0, which is honored with "The Cloud Security Innovator of the Year" by UAE Cybersecurity Council united with ITP Media group

Wan Tao, Chief Security Expert of Huawei Cloud Enterprise Digitalization and Cloud Transformation

During the GISEC, Wan Tao, Chief Security Expert of Huawei Cloud Enterprise Digitalization and Cloud Transformation, delivered a keynote speech, entitled "A Comprehensive Security System for Global Cloud Customers". Wan Tao emphasized that the cloud native security system of Huawei Cloud is rooted in the cloud platform and integrates assets, security, and secure operations together, making it the optimal solution for the digital intelligent world.

Zou Feng, Director of Huawei Cloud Security Governance

Zou Feng, Director of Huawei Cloud Security Governance, delivered a keynote speech, entitled "Redefining Cloud Security Governance in the Digital Era: Governance as Code (GaC)" at the GISEC. He said by integrating GaC into the full lifecycle process of services, Huawei Cloud takes preventative, inspection, and corrective controls at right stages. Huawei Cloud leverages visualized automation tools to configure security policies at scale to keep its services compliant while protecting cloud workloads from ever-growing and ever-changing threats in digital environments.

SecMaster 2.0: Reshaping Secure Operations in the Cloud Era

Cloud security operations face challenges of multi-environment management, exponential increase in complexity and frequency of APTs, and heavy reliance on experts and technical know-hows. To address these challenges, Huawei Cloud launched SecMaster 2.0. Chen Liang, Huawei Cloud Senior Security Architect, stated that SecMaster is a cloud-native, out-of-the-box SOC. It integrates 300+ threat detection models, including 70+ AI fine-tuned ones, 100+ predefined security playbooks, and 10,000 + compliance baselines to enable unified security management of on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud scenarios, accurate threat detection, and automated security orchestration and response.

Huawei Cloud won the "Cloud Security Innovator of the Year" award

During the GISEC, Huawei Cloud won the "Cloud Security Innovator of the Year" award, jointly issued by ITP Media Group and UAE Cyber Security Council, which is the most influential authority in security sector in the Middle East, for its exceptional innovation and exemplified excellence in unified, intelligent, and automated cloud security operations powered by SecMaster.

During the GISEC, Huawei Cloud held a cloud security forum named "Intelligent, Simplified Cloud-Native Security for Greater Resilience of Cloud Services". Security experts, system architects, analysts, and security governance experts from Huawei Cloud, its customers, and partners held in-depth discussions in the forum. Huawei Cloud demonstrated its capabilities of and practices in AI for Security, Security for AI, and end-to-end data security.

Cyber security and privacy protection are always Huawei's top priorities. As one of the fastest-growing clouds in the world, Huawei Cloud is both a provider and a practitioner of security capabilities and solutions. Looking to the future, Huawei Cloud will continue to be transparent, innovative, and dedicated in cloud security to safeguard not only Huawei Cloud but also the highly intelligent digital world.