Alibaba Unveils Plans to Protect Cloud Data

Grazed from WSJ. Author: Gillian Wong.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. unveiled plans Wednesday to protect user data on its cloud computing platforms globally, highlighting the e-commerce giant’s ambitions to expand its services in markets like the U.S. where it has plans to build a second data center. The Chinese e-commerce giant’s cloud computing unit, known as Aliyun, issued a “Data Protection Pact” promising that customers of its cloud computing platform would have “absolute ownership” over all of their data and the rights to access, share, exchange, transfer or delete their data at any time.

The pact promises customers ranging from developers to government agencies and consumers that their data cannot be altered or transferred by Aliyun in any way. It states that Aliyun is responsible for establishing management and internal audit systems for improving capabilities to protect against threats and the recovery of data in disasters…

The pact was announced by Aliyun’s president, Simon Hu, at a conference the cloud unit hosted in Beijing on Wednesday. Aliyun says that among its efforts to protect user data, the cloud unit analyzes more than 100 terabytes of information each day to detect security threats such as software weaknesses and malware…

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