The "frictionless" cloud frontier: why Southeast Asian digital leaders need to rethink network security architecture
By Abhishek Kumar Singh, Head of Security Engineering, Check Point Software The pressure on CIOs and CISOs in the ASEAN nations has changed as the region's digital economy heads toward a projected US$300 B gross merchandise value (GMV) by 2025. We don't just want to know "how do we move to the cloud?" anymore. Now we want to know "how do we keep the cloud safe without breaking it?” The "cloud gap" is a known problem for decision makers in the Singapore's busy fintech hub, Indonesia's booming e-commerce sector, or Thailand's digitising manufacturing base. It is the invisible wall where strong cybersecurity and operational flexibility meet. In the past, deploying high-level threat prevention meant complicated manual routing, possible downtime, and performance trade-offs that made DevOps teams frustrated and slowed down innovation. Security should not be a roadblock. Rather, security should be a critical sidekick. The move to hybrid and mult...