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Companies in the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region have continued to adopt RISE with SAP to power their cloud transformations, take advantage of new Business AI capabilities, and build agility. Go-lives in Q224 were successfully completed at Hyundai Motor Company and Kia, among others, SAP said. New RISE with SAP wins and expansions in Q2 included Shiseido; Auckland Council; Powerlink Queensland; Parle Biscuits; Tigaraksa Satria; Tokio Marine and Nichido Fire Insurance; PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Persero) – Pelindo Group; and PGP Glass.  Paul Marriott, President of SAP APJ, said: “SAP customer experience is being transformed by the infusion of Business AI across our portfolio, embedding cutting-edge technologies into enterprise-ready business applications. The benefits of Business AI can only be accessed through the cloud, and we are working with our customers across APJ to help them drive AI benefits unique to their needs.” Shiseido decided to adopt RISE with SAP to further its...

Acronis, a global cybersecurity and data protection provider, has introduced Acronis XDR , the newest addition to the company’s security solution portfolio. The new solution expands on the current endpoint detection and response (EDR) offering and delivers natively-integrated, efficient cybersecurity with data protection, endpoint management, and automated recovery specifically built for managed service providers (MSPs). Source: Acronis. XDR overview and interpretations screen. According to Acronis, MSPs that offer security services typically have few options, with expensive, complex tools offering insufficient, incomplete protection that are time-consuming to deploy and maintain. As a direct response to these challenges, Acronis XDR is designed to provide complete protection without high costs and added complexity. “Acronis makes a compelling entrance into XDR,” notes Chris Kissel, Research VP at IDC. “Acronis has provided an endpoint protection platform for the better part of a yea...

Johor Corporation’s (JCorp) digital-first agrofood company, FarmByte, is harnessing cloud, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to revolutionise the agrofood sector in Malaysia and uplift the livelihoods of farmers. By building on AWS Cloud, FarmByte aims to offer farmers crop monitoring solutions and insights, including weather information as well as fertiliser and pesticide application rates. These insights, provided through the FarmByte app, allow farmers to optimise their resources better for improved yield outcomes. FarmByte is leveraging AWS’s cloud infrastructure for scalable and reliable hosting of data sources and applications, AWS Data Exchange for secure data sharing with partners, and Amazon S3 and AWS Glue Data Catalog for secure storage and management of a scalable data lake. With the data lake, FarmByte can now conduct analyses and generate insights for crop pricing analytics, demand forecasting, and su...

Veritas Technologies, the secure multicloud data management provider, has released Veritas Data Insight , which allows organisations to assess and mitigate unstructured and sensitive data compliance and cyber resilience risks, as software-as-a-service (SaaS). Dark data, which is data with unknown value, makes up roughly 52% of the average organisation’s unstructured data estate. In addition to containing redundant, obsolete and trivial (ROT) data that costs organisations millions of dollars in unnecessary storage, such data may also contain sensitive information posing significant regulatory compliance and cyber resilience risks, Veritas Technologies explained. Veritas Data Insight offers in-depth data visibility, context and analysis across multicloud infrastructures to help resolve the cost, compliance and security risks associated with unstructured, dark and sensitive data. It also plays a key role in helping organisations respond to cyberthreats such as ransomware by high...

by Jasie Fon, Regional VP of Asia, Ping Identity Source: Ping Identity. Fon. When one talks about Singapore's remarkable digital transformation journey, the country's National Digital Identity (NDI) Initiative - featuring Singpass - immediately springs to mind. Singpass is a cutting- edge platform that enables citizens, residents and businesses to transact with the government and private service providers. It allows them to access government and business services through a single login, using methods like fingerprints, facial verification, multi-user SMS two-factor authentication (2FA), and SMS one-time passwords (OTPs). These not only provide additional security for users’ personal data but also give them a diversity of choices to best fit their needs. This kind of adaptable seamlessness is the future of customer experience (CX). According to ZenDesk , about 70% of brands recognise a direct correlation between CX and performance. In addition to immediate financial gains, a ...

Fortinet, the global cybersecurity provider driving the convergence of networking and security, has found that nearly a third (31%) of operational technology (OT) organisations reported more than six intrusions in the last year, up from 11% the year before. The findings come from its global 2024 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report . The research represents the current state of operational technology (OT) security and highlights opportunities for continued improvement for organisations to secure an ever-expanding IT/OT threat landscape. While this year’s report indicates that organisations have made progress in the past 12 months related to advancing their OT security posture, there are still critical areas for improvement as IT and OT network environments continue to converge, the company said. Highlights from the global survey include: Cyberattacks that compromise OT systems are on the rise In 2023, 49% of respondents experienced an intrusion that im...

Kominfo, Indonesia's Ministry of Information Communication and Technology, reported that a Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) had been affected by ransomware since 20 June 2024, causing several cloud-based public services including immigration services to be disrupted. The National Cyber and Password Agency (BSSN) head, Hinsa Siburian said that BSSN discovered that the security features of W indows Defender had been deactivated on June 17, 2024. Malicious activities began on June 20, including the installation of malicious files, deleting of important file systems, and the disabling of active services. Files related to storage, such as: VSS, HyperV Volume, VirtualDisk, and Veaam vPower NFS stopped working or crashed. Investigations are under way, though somewhat hampered by encryption of files from the ransomware, Brain Cipher from Lockbit. "This becomes important for lessons learned and mitigation efforts so that similar incidents do not happen again," said Hins...