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Appdome, which protects mobile businesses, has integrated its  IDAnchor’ s Customer Identity Protection suite into MobileBOT Defense, Appdome’s bot defense offering. This combination enables businesses to build a virtual mobile API gateway on top of any standard backend infrastructure.  “There’s no need for point products in bot defence and API protection any longer,” said Tom Tovar, CEO and co-creator of Appdome.  “Within one solution,  IDAnchor  can tell network security teams if an API request is coming from real users, apps, and devices and  MobileBOT Defense  can stop brute force bot attacks with ease.”  Powered by AI, Appdome’s MobileBOT Defense, with IDAnchor inside, provides an operating system (OS)-independent chain of trust consisting of:  - WorkspaceID:  root identifier from the DevOps environment - ReleaseID:  intermediate identifier for each app release - InstallID:  leaf identifier for each app instance - Device...

Jabra, the professional audio brand, has launched the PanaCast 40 VBS, the only Android -powered video bar system (VBS) that captures an entire small meeting room with an 180° field-of-view (FoV). This innovation builds on the success of Jabra’s PanaCast 50 VBS, effectively bringing the same powerful performance to smaller spaces in a more compact and cost-effective package. Small meeting spaces often pose unique challenges for video collaboration. Traditional solutions often struggle to capture all participants equally, particularly those seated closer to the screen, while some lack videoconferencing equipment altogether. In fact, less than 3% of huddle rooms are video enabled* globally, leaving millions of small meeting spaces underutilised. The PanaCast 40 VBS bridges this gap with dual-camera systems that deliver a seamless 180° FoV through advanced stitching technology. This ensures full room coverage, making every participant clearly visible on video. The video capabilities a...

As Southeast Asian (SEA) organisations accelerate AI adoption, many are grappling with scaling use cases without compromising security and trust. Concurrently, with more SEA companies deploying agentic AI, we are starting to see a reallocation of work where AI agents handle complex decisions and workflows, robots manage repetitive tasks, and humans take on strategic roles. A recent IDC InfoBrief, Agentic Automation: Unlocking Seamless Orchestration for the Modern Enterprise , commissioned by UiPath, shows strong momentum behind the use of AI agents for businesses in SEA, but has also highlighted key gaps in oversight and orchestration of AI agents, robots and humans in the workforce. Matthew Tan, Principal Solution Engineer at UiPath, Southeast Asia (MT), shares how businesses can navigate the challenges to establish strong governance frameworks for responsible agentic AI and automation, rethink collaboration, and redesign job roles. Q: What are some unique challenges and opportunit...

ESET, a global cybersecurity solutions provider, has launched ESET Cybersecurity Awareness Training in Singapore. This online resource is designed to educate, test, and improve the cyber resilience of employees. With this offering, ESET responds to one of the main problems for business owners — low cybersecurity skills among employees that can lead to costly breaches and reputation losses. At the same time, ESET Cybersecurity Awareness Training helps organisations meet compliance and insurance requirements. According to ESET, 68% of breaches involve a human element, social engineering or an error, while employee education is the No. 1 factor that reduces the cost of a breach. The launch comes at a critical time as Singapore’s critical infrastructure continues to face persistent threats from advanced attacks that could lead to operational disruptions, economic losses, and loss of trust in Singapore’s digital ecosystem. With higher incidence of business email compromise (BEC) attacks r...

Siloam Hospitals is transforming how care is delivered, giving doctors more time with patients, reducing administrative burdens for nurses, and improving access to quality healthcare for nearly 2 million Indonesians.  As the country’s largest private hospital network, Siloam International Hospitals is setting the benchmark for how digital innovation can create real, system-wide impact across Indonesia’s healthcare landscape. The organisation, which manages a network of 41 hospitals with a team of some 12,000 staff, is conducting its digital transformation through a combination of advanced technologies, modern infrastructure, and data-driven innovation.  From the frontlines of emergency rooms to the backend of hospital operations, Siloam is modernising its IT systems, building intelligent applications, and improving efficiencies that empower healthcare professionals to focus on patient care. Cloud services, including those from Amazon Web Services (AWS), have b...

Source: Fortinet web page . Automatically map cloud assets, configurations, and activity to compliance frameworks including PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 with  Lacework FortiCNAPP. Fortinet, the global cybersecurity provider driving the convergence of networking and security, has launched a new regional point-of-presence (PoP) in Singapore for Lacework FortiCNAPP , its cloud-native application protection platform.  The Singapore PoP complements Fortinet’s existing infrastructure in the region and marks Fortinet’s second FortiCNAPP deployment in Asia-Pacific, following its PoP in Australia.  According to Fortinet, organisations are managing multicloud and hybrid environments while facing evolving regulatory expectations and sophisticated cyberthreats. Fortinet’s new FortiCNAPP PoP in Singapore addresses these challenges by providing localised security services that help organisations better protect their cloud-native applications while maintaining control ov...

OpenAI has announced  GPT‑5⁠, a new model which delivers advanced accuracy, speed, reasoning, context recognition, structured thinking, and problem-solving.  The company stated that GPT-5  is "a unified system that knows when to respond quickly and when to think longer to provide expert-level responses. GPT‑5 also feels more natural and thoughtful, with clearer, more accurate responses and fewer hallucinations. This release builds on years of progress in reasoning, multimodality, and safety. It brings frontier capabilities to everyone, while maintaining clear safety measures and rigorous evaluation standards." According to OpenAI,  GPT‑5 unites and exceeds OpenAI’s prior breakthroughs in frontier intelligence, spanning 4o, OpenAI o -series reasoning, agents, and advanced math capabilities. Feature highlights include: Reliability and accuracy Fewer hallucinations. Delivers more accurate answers than any previous reasoning model.   Safe...

Xtelify, a fully-owned subsidiary of Bharti Airtel (Airtel) housing all of Airtel’s digital assets and capabilities, has launched a sovereign, telco-grade cloud platform, Airtel Cloud . Tailored to handle 140 crore transactions per minute for Airtel’s own use in India, this sovereign cloud platform is now being extended to meet the needs of businesses in India. Hosted on next-generation sustainable data centres, with generative AI (gen AI)-based provisioning, and managed by 300 certified cloud experts, the secure and reliable Airtel Cloud offers infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and advanced connectivity and guarantees secure migration, effortless scaling, lower costs and no vendor lock-ins. Xtelify also introduced an AI-powered, future-ready software platform that will help telcos focus on the customer helping improve experience, lower churn and raise average revenue per user (ARPU). Addressing every layer of the telecom value chain, the solution come...