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Trend Micro has launched Trend Micro One, a unified cybersecurity and attack surface management platform. This move is a major step towards consolidating a multitude of security products and features in a single platform, enabling customers to better understand, communicate, and mitigate cyber risks. Trend Micro’s unified security platform enables organisations to prepare for, withstand, and rapidly recover from threats, with a more empowered security team. The cloud-based solution delivers a continuous lifecycle of complete risk and threat assessment with attack discovery, cyber risk analysis, and threat mitigation and response. Furthermore, expert services such as Managed Extended Detection & Response (XDR) promises better visibility, 24x7 monitoring, and enhanced threat detection and response. David Ng, Country Manager, Singapore, Trend Micro, said: “Trend Micro’s platform approach is the product of 30 years of experience and innovation in cybersecurity. We have always been co...

By Chua Chee Pin, Area VP, ASEAN, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, Commvault With data becoming a major currency of business and key to decision making across organisations of all sizes, its value has increased exponentially – which is the prime driving force in the spate of ransomware attacks faced by organisations globally, especially in the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region. Ransomware attacks in the APJ region spiked by 168% last year, with an average organisation suffering from over 1,200 weekly attacks. Globally, APJ had the highest number of organisations being attacked weekly compared to the EMEA region and the US, indicating that cybercriminals have set a target on this region. The current cybersecurity climate means that a good cybersecurity posture is essential for every organisation. This is emphasised by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore's recent introduction of the Cyber Essentials cybersecurity certification scheme, which tags small and large enter...

By Len Noe, Technical Evangelist and white hat hacker at CyberArk In the contactless era, these little black and white grids emerged from relative obscurity to replace everything from restaurant menus to store coupons to subway station ads. They’ve become the defacto business card, digital event leave behind and virtual payment option. Governments around the world have even embraced them to facilitate contact tracing and vaccination status verification. QR codes are accessible, easy to produce and, seemingly, here to stay. They’re also a perfect way for cybercriminals to snag your personal information. Here’s what you need to know before scanning that code with your smartphone. Short for quick response codes, QR codes are a type of two-dimensional barcode that contain data, often for a locator, identifier or tracker. They can be easily read by a smartphone or other camera-equipped device and converted into useful information for the end-user, such as a URL for a website or an appli...

Workday, a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, has been positioned by Gartner in the Leaders quadrant of the inaugural 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises * based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. Workday Enterprise Management Cloud brings together core financials, human resources, and operational data in one adaptable system to help provide service-centric organisations with predictive insights, greater agility, and engaging experiences. Workday Financial Management, Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Accounting Centre, Workday Prism Analytics , and Workday Spend Management can integrate seamlessly into the customer's technology ecosystem to help transform the way organisations operate across finance, human resources, and procurement. Workday achieved a 97% customer satisfaction rating in its latest customer satisfaction survey driven by the a...

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), which provides post-trade market infrastructure for the global markets, has outlined enhanced resilience measures that financial firms should consider adopting to ensure the continued safety of financial markets amid an increasingly complex technology landscape. Neelesh Prabhu, MD & Chief Technology Architect, DTCC, said: “Technology resilience has become an increasing area of focus for financial services firms all over the world, in Asia and beyond. The global financial services industry is experiencing a rapid introduction of new technologies that will bring new capabilities as well as potential new risks. The resilience principles outlined in our latest white paper are useful for any firm that actively develops and deploys software and services within their organisation, no matter where they’re located.” DTCC is no stranger to strict recovery and resumption methods across services to enhance its resilience. The company h...