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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...

By Chua Chee Pin, Area VP, ASEAN, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Commvault It has been two years since our lives have been turned upside down by the global pandemic. In a way, it has brought about tremendous change in a very short time. The most obvious is how we quickly transitioned to digitalisation, and in the business environment, we have embraced a highly agile digital workforce. Many traditionally brick-and-mortar businesses, including B2B businesses, have also gone online fully or partly to continue to engage with their customers and partners. Data, as expected, has proven to be a lifeline with the increased digitalisation. IDC projected that the amount of data to be created and collected by 2025 will be at a whopping 175 zettabytes*. While businesses are today better positioned to pivot agilely and to embracing digitalisation in response to disruptions, many are still grappling with a sound strategy against the greater exposure to cybersecurity risks that going digital also brings. ...

By Adrian Comley, Senior Manager of Managed Network Services, BT Source: BT. Comley. Application experience defines your organisation and how you’re viewed in your landscape of competitors. If you don’t provide rich content and a network that’s capable of giving applications all the support they need to deliver a great experience, then your customers are likely to look elsewhere. It’s a point of judgment both internally and externally, so ensuring your applications perform consistently - especially in our new hybrid working world - must be a priority. Research conducted by Riverbed | Aternity in 2021 has shown that 95% of organisations surveyed still face visibility and monitoring challenges in their current IT environment. Adding to that, 32% of the respondents also blame the lack of end-to-end visibility for their poor network and application performance. So, isn’t it time organisations start asking themselves, ‘what impact is lack of visibility into performance having on my bu...

Source: H2O.ai. Screen from H2O Hydrogen Torch . H2O.ai has announced H2O Hydrogen Torch , a deep learning training engine that makes it easy for companies of any size in any industry to make state-of-the-art image, video and natural language processing (NLP) models without coding. Creating deep learning models typically requires extensive data science knowledge and time. H2O Hydrogen Torch uses a no-code user interface that allows data scientists and developers to rapidly build models for image, video and NLP processing use cases such as identifying or classifying objects, analysing sentiment or finding relevant information in text. According to multiple analyst estimates, 80% to 90% of data is unstructured information, yet only a small percentage of organisations are able to derive value from unstructured data. Deep learning models could be used in industries like healthcare for computer-aided disease detection or diagnosis through the analysis of medical images; in insurance ...

Cybersecurity player IronNet has added a wealth management platform as well as a private healthcare service from Singapore as customers. Both organisations are remaining anonymous to protect their operational security. The two companies will use IronNet’s artificial intelligence (AI)-based network detection and response (NDR) solution as well as the IronNet Collective Defense platform to collaborate in real-time so that they can better detect and defend against cyberattacks. The IronNet Collective Defense platform delivers threat knowledge and intelligence across industries at machine speed. By leveraging IronNet’s advanced AI-driven NDR capabilities, the Collective Defense platform can detect and prioritise anomalous activity inside individual enterprise network environments. "We chose IronNet over other options after demonstrating in-depth proof of value criteria,” stated the Director of IT for the wealth management platform. “Through the detections, IronNet's solut...

Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) has signed agreements with Airbus Defence and Space, and The Boeing Company to collaborate further and tap advances in digital technologies at the biennial Singapore Airshow . The agreements will deepen ongoing joint efforts in data analytics. New data pipeline infrastructure will be created for the seamless exchange of digitised fleet and supply chain datasets. This will allow for improved data analytic insights for the optimisation of aircraft maintenance support, leading to reductions in sustainment cost, improvements in overall fleet availability and enhanced operational readiness for the Republic of Singapore Air Force. “We have been actively codeveloping digital solutions with an extensive network of industry partners. These new agreements with Airbus and Boeing present exciting opportunities for closer collaboration, with new data pipelines to enable smarter maintenance of our aircraft. By teaming up with these global ...