TechTouch Asia

By Jason Sabin, CTO at DigiCert It’s been two years since the WHO declared COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Businesses were forced to shut down their offices and reimagine new ways of working. Two years later, companies are reopening again, but it is clear that the workplace has changed forever.  Organisations have adopted innovative solutions to adapt to remote working and most of them see hybrid work continuing beyond the pandemic. According to Gartner , 82% of business leaders plan to maintain at least a partial work-from-home structure even after the pandemic has fully passed. Employee expectations have evolved as well. According to Milieu Insight’s recent survey, working remotely seems to be the prevailing choice among employees in Singapore with 78% leaning towards a hybrid schedule. However, just as the workplace has changed, new cybersecurity issues have emerged.  Here’s how COVID has changed security in the workplace for good and the key takeaways to secure...

CrowdStrike Holdings, a provider of cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data, has introduced Falcon Identity Threat Protection Complete , a fully-managed identity threat protection solution.  The suite brings together the Falcon Identity Threat Protection module and Falcon Complete managed service to deliver identity threat prevention and IT policy enforcement, with expert management, monitoring and remediation.  According to the 2022 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report , nearly 80% of cyberattacks leverage identity-based attacks to compromise legitimate credentials and use techniques like lateral movement to quickly evade detection. Defending against identity-based attacks requires a mix of technology and human expertise, ensuring organisations can respond swiftly to these threats. “Today’s adversaries are amazingly adept at obtaining and abusing stolen credentials, taking advantage of blind spots in legacy systems, contractor systems and othe...