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Vietcombank is implementing Salesforce’s Financial Services Cloud, CRM Analytics, Marketing Cloud , and MuleSoft to unify retail and corporate banking functions on a single AI-powered platform. This implementation, supported by the combined expertise of PwC-Gimasys-CMC TS, will enhance the bank’s operational efficiency and sales and marketing productivity. Together, these solutions will enable Vietcombank to create a unified view of the customer, allowing all relationship managers across Vietcombank to deliver better quality service. Salesforce provides trusted and autonomous AI with Agentforce and best-in-class apps for sales, service, marketing, commerce, and IT — all on one integrated platform. This initiative marks a key milestone in Vietcombank’s digital transformation journey, maintaining the bank’s position as Vietnam’s leading financial institution. By modernising its digital infrastructure with Salesforce, Vietcombank is doing away with siloed data and manual processe...

Malaysia AmBank Group, has successfully transformed its digital presence using Progress Sitefinity Cloud . This move has resulted in an enhanced user experience, streamlined digital operations, faster time to market and significant cost savings. With nearly 50 years of expertise fuelling Malaysia’s economic development, AmBank Group ranks as the country’s 6th-largest banking group by assets. As part of its digital transformation, AmBank sought to modernise its website infrastructure and improve digital services, overcoming the limitations of an outdated content management system. The bank required an intuitive, scalable and flexible solution that would empower its teams to make rapid content management and updates without heavy reliance on IT. “We chose Sitefinity Cloud for its flexibility, scalability and lower total cost of ownership--it met our business requirements without the need for overly complex enterprise-level solutions,” said Shazman Shahid, Head of Group Corporate Communi...

SecureIQLab, a provider of cloud security validation solutions, has shared the results of its 2025 Cloud Web Application Firewall and API Protection (WAAP) validation study.  SecureIQLab, known for its cloud cybersecurity validation, leveraged its proprietary SocX , an AI-powered validation platform, to validate cloud WAAP solutions against the OWASP Top:2023 critical security risks.  The validation study that was conducted from January through April 2025 attempted to evaluate over 15 leading enterprise-class cloud WAAP providers. The study focused on overall security efficacy use-cases targeted around 15 distinct attack vectors and 1,360 attack techniques. The results also exposed key operational gaps around efficiently deploying and managing these solutions, as highlighted in the 60 or more operational scenarios that were evaluated as a part of the study. "Today's sophisticated cyberthreats require equally sophisticated defence mechanisms," said David Ellis, VP Corpo...

CrowdStrike has announced new Falcon Data Protection innovations, enabling security teams to protect sensitive data across endpoints, cloud environments, generative AI (gen AI) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. According to CrowdStrike, data is now a primary adversary target. Adversaries are shifting from disruption to data theft, targeting misconfigurations and trusted identities to exfiltrate sensitive information and fuel downstream attacks. Groups like SCATTERED SPIDER compromise single sign-on (SSO) accounts to harvest SharePoint and Outlook passwords, virtual private network (VPN) instructions and internal documents to aid lateral movement and extortion.  Others, like FAMOUS CHOLLIMA , gain insider access to company-issued endpoints and cloud environments, using remote access tools to steal intellectual property and customer data. As gen AI adoption accelerates, misconfigured applications and unsecured usage are creating new vectors for data exposure. CrowdStri...

Appdome, the company protecting mobile businesses, has stated that its AI-Native MobileBOT Defense solution now offers the most comprehensive mobile bot defense profile on the market. With the new release, Appdome now offers full flexibility for mixing and matching where and how to enforce mobile app protections. Mobile businesses can enforce these protections at the client app level, network layer, or a combination of both, Appdome said. Capable of evaluating 400+ attack vectors in Android and iOS apps, operating systems (OSes), devices, user interfaces and networks, Appdome’s MobileBOT defence profile allows network security teams to not only stop brute force bot and credential stuffing attacks, but also spear phishing, account takeover (ATO), know your customer (KYC) fraud, on-device fraud (ODF), and deepfake threats in real time across account creation, login, password reset, payment and other critical application programming interface (API) endpoints. “Up until now, m...

Akamai Technologies, the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, has announced Firewall for AI, a new solution that provides multilayered protection for AI applications against unauthorized queries, adversarial inputs, and large-scale data-scraping attempts. As AI rapidly transforms industries, organisations are quickly deploying large language models (LLMs), agentic AI, and other emerging tools. However, these innovations introduce new security vulnerabilities, including adversarial attacks, model extraction, application programming interface (API) abuse, and large-scale data scraping — threats that existing web application firewalls (WAFs) are not designed to mitigate, the company said. “Traditional security solutions do not stop AI threats,” said Rupesh Chokshi, Senior VP and GM, Application Security, Akamai.  “As enterprises embrace the AI era to unlock new levels of productivity, AI security must be a key enabler. Firewall for AI i...

In March, Progress added web application firewall (WAF) functionality to its MOVEit Cloud managed file transfer solution. The new feature strengthens security by blocking malicious web traffic before it can infiltrate systems. John Yang, VP, APJ, Progress , explains more about the current landscape, and what WAFs do: Q: In the ever-changing threat landscape, what are the most significant cybersecurity changes you've observed in recent years? Source: Progress. Yang. Yang (JY): As artificial intelligence continues to advance, it’s easier for cyber attackers to execute more sophisticated and highly targeted attacks. Unfortunately, defensive measures haven’t kept pace with these developments. To stay protected in today’s evolving cybersecurity landscape, organisations need to adopt layered defense strategies that combine prevention with early detection, while emphasising the importance of user education, as human error remains the most significant vulnerability. In fact, human er...