APAC news stories - Page 2

Imperva finds half of APAC respondents would stop using a company's services following a serious data breach - the highest number globally

CBRE's new report finds direct investment in the sector more than doubled in 2021, surpassing investment volumes for the past four years combined

Paessler has announced the recipients of its Top Partner Excellence Awards 2021, recognising the contributions of VAR in the Asia Pacific region.

Log4Shell attacks prove a continued and complex threat to APAC businesses, according to security company Barracuda.

KnowBe4 has released a new report showing half of the employees at shadow IT companies use unauthorised file services to complete their work.

“Understanding and serving a new breed of online consumers, many with mobile-first preferences, has become the new competitive battleground."

"The obvious first issue with this is that if APAC office workers are unable to identify scam emails and SMS messages then they are at significant risk."

The report finds that there is significant disparity of robotic process automation adoption within Asia Pacific’s financial services industry.

TCS has built a set of industry-specific IoT solutions with predictive and self-aware systems that use AI and machine learning.

Forrester expects vaccination rates, and the reopening of economies will produce more sustained tech market growth, on par with or higher than before COVID-19.

"With Ben’s proven track record in building and leading large, world-class technology teams to bring customers world-class technologies, we’re confident in his ability to guide the business forward in the region.”

AI humanisation company Soul Machines has signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft, utilising Azure technology and further creating growth opportunities in the service AI field.

Secureworks has appointed Demetrios Georgiou as director of APAC and Murray Whitlocke-Jones as head of channel as it continues to expand across the region.

With the rise of remote work over the past 18 months, the use of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams has exploded. Microsoft reports that roughly 50% of 365’s 260 million-plus commercial users now use Teams, although some experts place the number of users closer to 300 million.

"I am confident that their blend of expertise and strong leadership with a comprehensive understanding of these markets will be critical to delivering value as businesses across AP."

Cyber-attacks across the Asia Pacific region have grown in sophistication and prevalence, and require effective incident response mechanisms to combat them.

Financial institutions across the APAC region are working to become more ingrained in the financial decisions of their customers, primarily through the development of digital financial wellness and money management apps.

“It's encouraging to see that the results of our Outlook show a construction sector in the APAC region that is full of confidence and optimism, despite facing tremendous challenges this past year."

By 2025, 70% of organisations will shift focus from big to small and wide data, which will provide more context for analytics and make artificial intelligence less data hungry.

The proliferation of cloud-based deployments will largely drive this, the report says, as the COVID-19 pandemic motivates more enterprises to move their workloads to the cloud and rely more on the internet. 

Deployments of more sophisticated, cloud-based applications are expected in the more ‘mature’ markets in the region, including Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. 

To address the increasing number of cyber-attacks and data privacy concerns, more organisations should focus on ensuring their data platform can provide consistent data security, governance, lineage, and control across their hybrid cloud next year.

Asia-Pacific’s public sector is at the greatest risk for advanced cyber-espionage attacks, while the region is hardest hit globally, according to the new Verizon Cyber-Espionage Report (CER).

“Our partnership with Digital Workforce will ensure APAC businesses have access to and can leverage the right processes, skills and technology to transform their finance and procurement functions."