TechTouch Asia

By Kris Day, Senior VP and GM, Asia Pacific & Japan at SentinelOne Source: SentinelOne. Day. As Asia-Pacific accelerates its AI ambitions, the biggest AI risk may no longer be what AI can do, but how vulnerable AI itself has become. While we celebrate AI's growing impact across banking, healthcare, government, logistics, and customer service, it's also the right moment to ask a more important question: are we doing enough to secure the AI we're increasingly relying on? For years, the conversation has centred on using AI to strengthen cybersecurity. Today, AI has become something else entirely: an attack surface in its own right. Across the region, organisations are building what is effectively a new digital workforce made up of AI assistants, autonomous agents, and intelligent applications.  These systems log into enterprise platforms, move data across environments, call APIs, analyse information, and execute tasks on behalf of human employees. They behave like users,...