According to Mordor Intelligence, the cloud computing market in the UAE was valued at USD 12.84 billion in 2025 and is expected to grow to USD 45.41 billion by 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28.75%. Other analysts at MarkNtel Advisors forecast a similar CAGR of around 36% between 2024 and 2030, making the UAE a leader in cloud infrastructure development in the region.
A key driver of growth is the active adoption of AI, with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) increasingly using cloud resources for AI analytics and expanding their business operations. Government programs like Dubai Smart City and the UAE National AI Strategy 2031 further accelerate this trend by delivering robust digital infrastructure and regulatory frameworks.
Businesses are migrating to the cloud not as a fad, but because cloud rental often costs less than acquiring and maintaining on-premises hardware. It enables rapid project rollout, elastic scaling, and relief from infrastructure management—delivering cost savings, flexibility, faster time-to-market, and greater resilience.
Who is really responsible for cloud security
The public cloud isn’t an all-in-one solution. It follows a shared responsibility model: the provider secures what they manage, while you’re responsible for everything under your control.
IaaS. ITGLOBAL.COM provides security at the infrastructure level, including physical access to servers and virtualization, while the guest operating systems, applications, users, and their access permissions remain under your control.
PaaS. The provider also becomes responsible for the platform layer—including databases, containers, and middleware.
SaaS. The provider assumes most of the obligations, leaving the client to focus on data and its proper use.
Unfortunately, even with multi-layered protection, it’s impossible to eliminate risk entirely—a skilled and well-prepared attacker may still uncover a vulnerability. However, the more robust and well-structured your defense, the greater the chance of detecting attacks early, forcing the intruder to invest more time and resources to break through.
L3/L4 and network resilience
At the basic level, ITGLOBAL.COM mitigates attacks that hit the network infrastructure of data centers: IP prefixes, Internet entry points, traffic routing are protected. High channel redundancy and multi-threaded filtering help here.
However, the IP addresses that you have rented and are distributing among your services (i.e., the overlay network) fall under your direct responsibility.. If these are targeted, additional protection measures are essential.
L7 and application protection
Attackers have learned to save resources: instead of “flooding” channels, they generate an avalanche of HTTP requests to specific pages or API endpoints. While your cloud provider secures its own portals and APIs, the protection of your websites and mobile backends remains solely your responsibility.
Stronger Together: ITGLOBAL.COM and StormWall against DDoS threats
With the growing threat of DDoS attacks, organizations are increasingly turning to specialized solutions in addition to the cloud provider’s basic protection. In practice, one of the most effective approaches is to integrate ITGLOBAL.COM’s cloud infrastructure with the StormWall DDoS protection platform.
This combination allows you to implement a multi-level filtering system:
— at the data center level, we provide protection for prefixes and internet channels,
— StormWall acts as an external scrubbing layer—receiving all incoming traffic, filtering out malicious content, and forwarding only clean requests to the cloud
The implementation scenario involves three parties: the customer, ITGLOBAL.COM engineers, and StormWall specialists. Together, they:
- identify business-critical services and IP addresses;
- configure the traffic route through the protection cloud;
- perform an initial analysis of the network profile, which is used to set the filtering parameters.
Anycast routing combined with deep edge-level filtering blocks attacks before they reach your cloud infrastructure—ensuring continuous business operations and uninterrupted user experience.
This approach allows you to take advantage of the cloud without compromising security, especially as the number and severity of DDoS attacks continues to grow.
How the protection setup process works for your project
First, a working group is formed. It includes all parties: you, ITGLOBAL.COM engineers, and StormWall specialists. This format allows you to quickly agree on technical details without wasting time on sending emails and clarifications between different parties.
Then, the team determines which services are most important for the business and which IP addresses are involved. This information forms the basis of the route: how the traffic will flow, where it will be filtered, and what switching schemes will be used in case of an attack.
After that, the observation period begins. StormWall doesn’t activate filtering right away—instead, it analyzes traffic during “peacetime,” building a baseline of typical behavior, including volume, geography, and request patterns. This ensures that legitimate traffic won’t be blocked once filtering is enabled.
Once the baseline is established, filtering is activated. At the first sign of suspicious activity, traffic is automatically rerouted for scrubbing — malicious requests are filtered out, and only clean traffic is delivered back to the ITGLOBAL.COM cloud. This entire process is automated and does not disrupt your services.
Why is it important to act before an attack
While it’s technically possible to enable protection “on the fly,” it often happens under pressure—the service is already down, teams are being pulled together urgently, and there’s little time for proper configuration. When protection is integrated in advance, a DDoS attack becomes just another traffic spike: the system reacts automatically, and your users remain unaffected.
Instead of conclusion
Availability has become as much a KPI as revenue or NPS. The more a business uses the clouds, the more attractive it becomes for DDoS. The partnership between ITGLOBAL.COM and StormWall addresses the “how to protect” question from the start: ITGLOBAL.COM secures the foundation, StormWall handles the threats—so you can focus on product growth, not firefighting.
