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TechWire Asia @ Tech Wire Asia 1 place · 10/28/2025 11:44 EDT

Shadow AI: The insider threat lurking in Malaysian companies

By Aaron Bugal, Field CISO, APJ, Sophos AI is fast becoming the new productivity engine in Malaysia’s corporate landscape. From copilots that summarise reports to chatbots that draft emails, employees are discovering clever ways to work faster and smarter. But in the rush to embrace innovation, a new blind spot has emerged: shadow AI. Shadow ... Read more

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Aaron Raj @ Tech Wire Asia 3 place · 10/03/2022 20:15 EDT

Alibaba Cloud picks Kuala Lumpur as customer service centre for regional services

During the 2022 Alibaba Cloud Summit, Alibaba Cloud launched the “Global Delivery and Service Program” to enhance the cloud adoption process for customers. Kuala Lumpur, Porto, and Mexico City were unveiled as three customer service centres that will support customers in their cloud adoption journey, providing timely and regionalized cloud migration and consulting services. In addition... Read more » Read more

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Muhammad Zulhusni @ Tech Wire Asia · 10/03/2022 20:00 EDT

Here’s why IBM feels hybrid cloud is key to unlocking digital transformation opportunities

The State of Cloud, a new IBM Transformation Index, helps business leaders in identifying transformational gaps Nearly 70% of respondents claim that their staff lacks the necessary capabilities to effectively handle cloud infrastructures A hybrid cloud infrastructure is still in many businesses’ transformation futures as the cloud continues to develop. Since hybrid cloud is a... Read more » Read more

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Aaron Raj @ Tech Wire Asia · 10/03/2022 19:15 EDT

Counting the real cost of carbon to build a sustainable future

Article by Sylvain Cazard, Senior Vice President and General Manager, VMware APJ Climate change is the most pressing global issue of our time, and businesses’ financial costs will become increasingly linked to the impact they have on the environment. We know that in little more than seven years, we need to halve our emissions to... Read more » Read more

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Muhammad Zulhusni @ Tech Wire Asia · 10/03/2022 19:15 EDT

Australia and Singapore record the largest number of adverts on the darknet market in APAC

95% of all adverts in the APAC region have been exposed through database leaks cybercriminal operations are active below the surface of the web When it comes to what is available online, the world wide web (WWW) is merely the top of the iceberg. Much like how we don’t know 95% of what’s beneath the... Read more » Read more

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Muhammad Zulhusni @ Tech Wire Asia · 10/03/2022 01:30 EDT

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022 – what is it? And why should you care?

95% of cyber security vulnerabilities are due to human error Cybersecurity awareness month is here to educate staff members and customers about how to stay safe online Do you use ‘12345’ or ‘password’ as your password? Or have you continued to use the same software version that you installed three years ago? If any of... Read more » Read more

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Dashveenjit Kaur @ Tech Wire Asia · 10/03/2022 00:24 EDT

Workday: Organizations in Asia lags in digital agility and that needs to change — here’s why

Workday reckons that agility is the foundation that allows for trusted data to be used to increase efficiency, pivot quickly, and achieve goals effectively.   A Workday study actually found that eight in ten (79%) organizations in Malaysia are still lagging in digital agility. Organizational agility, as enterprise software player Workday puts it, is the ability... Read more » Read more

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Muhammad Zulhusni @ Tech Wire Asia 1 place · 10/02/2022 20:00 EDT

Shifting from Russia to Singapore to stabilize the threat landscape in the country

21% of users encountered online threats in the second quarter of 2022 The importance of educating people and businesses about the value of good cyber-hygiene practices There has been an increase in high-profile malicious activities worldwide, including ransomware attacks targeting critical industries and attacks that exploit vulnerabilities and weaknesses in widely used software. That’s exactly how... Read more » Read more

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Aaron Raj @ Tech Wire Asia · 10/02/2022 19:45 EDT

Local and state government cyber attacks are as complicated as other industries as well

Local and state government organizations are home to huge amounts of data. While these organizations do not face as many cyber attacks as other industries, the reality is, cybercriminals can still launch destructive attacks on them. A new sectoral survey report, The State of Ransomware in State and Local Government 2022, by Sophos, found that... Read more » Read more

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Aaron Raj @ Tech Wire Asia · 10/02/2022 19:30 EDT

Wasabi Technologies hoping to spice up cloud storage in APAC

Cloud storage is becoming ever so important for organizations today as they look to simplify their storage capabilities. While on-premise storage is still considered to be more secure, cloud storage is enabling businesses to perform restore and recovery operations when needed at speed. Today, cloud storage has become part of the data protection framework for... Read more » Read more

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Muhammad Zulhusni @ Tech Wire Asia · 10/02/2022 19:00 EDT

GovWare Conference and Exhibition returns in October to foster a safe and sustainable cyberspace

Cybersecurity and the threat landscape are both dynamic, and this has been especially true recently. Many corporate security teams are finding it difficult to keep up with attacks that are becoming more frequent and complex as the cyber threat landscape changes in the cyberspace. To address this issue, the GovWare Conference and Exhibition will return... Read more » Read more

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Thought Machine @ Tech Wire Asia 1 place · 09/30/2022 04:22 EDT

Migrating banking’s core to the cloud: a thorny issue no more?

Banks are looking cloudwards, and migrating their core banking systems effectively & cost efficiently is top-of-mind. Read more

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Dashveenjit Kaur @ Tech Wire Asia 1 place · 09/30/2022 02:30 EDT

Carsome confirms layoffs after expanding its ecosystem

In their effort to ‘optimize their workforce’, Carsome said it will focus on “improving productivity across the business, aligning resources with contributions to the bottom line, and enforcing stricter performance management.” The move would impact a certain number of employees, who Carsome said would receive their full severance package and extended health benefits until the... Read more » Read more

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Dashveenjit Kaur @ Tech Wire Asia 1 place · 09/30/2022 00:50 EDT

TSMC warns of a price hike for its chips and Apple, its largest customer, is unhappy

Apple has reportedly refused to accept a price increase from its sole chip supplier, TSMC. The Taiwanese chip giant has been planning to increase its prices by six to nine percent, depending on the fabrication process. In August this year, it was reported that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the company largely responsible for the... Read more » Read more

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Dashveenjit Kaur @ Tech Wire Asia 3 place · 09/30/2022 00:00 EDT

Can Grab hit the slab of profitability in 2024?

Grab has been struggling since it went public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company in December last year. Now, it expects revenue to slow sharply still since its ride-hailing operation has yet to fully recover. The Southeast Asian tech giant targets profitability in 2024 and it is speeding up efforts to reverse... Read more » Read more

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Joe Devanesan @ Tech Wire Asia · 09/29/2022 20:30 EDT

Automotive automation – Auto transport selflessly serving the public

Leading up into last year, most of the auto news on self-driving public transport revolved around robotaxis, fitting the scheme which observed mostly vehicles that looked and operated like regular cars as the areas where autonomous vehicle operators were pouring investment into. While parts of Europe and the US were busy developing other forms of... Read more » Read more

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Joe Devanesan @ Tech Wire Asia 3 place · 09/29/2022 20:00 EDT

Vietnam’s data localization strategy is impacting its tech leadership

Vietnam has been making inroads and diversifying its forward-looking mentality in technological implementation and manufacturing capacities over the last couple of years. Now its regulatory environment is catching up, with the country’s data localization directives as part of the 2018 Cybersecurity Law finally going into effect in October. The new law on October 1 will... Read more » Read more

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Muhammad Zulhusni @ Tech Wire Asia · 09/29/2022 19:30 EDT

Metaverse will open up new opportunities for businesses

Ciena global survey examined business professionals’ views on using more immersive and connected digital platforms at work The metaverse promises to be a stunningly realistic 3D virtual environment where people can engage in activities Some people think that the metaverse was created for gamers, leading other corporations to believe that it has no bearing on... Read more » Read more

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Correspondents @ Tech Wire Asia · 09/29/2022 19:00 EDT

Breaking the myths of Zero Trust model and understanding how it can protect your organization

Article by Dave Russell, Vice President of Enterprise Strategy, Veeam One of the latest buzzwords in the cyber security industry is a ‘Zero Trust’ security model. In short, a zero-trust model basically means you do not leave any room for errors at all and do not trust anyone or anything. Owing to a hybrid workplace... Read more » Read more

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Dashveenjit Kaur @ Tech Wire Asia 2 place · 09/29/2022 03:58 EDT

Malaysia’s first tech unicorn Carsome to lay off staff within 24 hours — sources

Sources close to the matter told Tech Wire Asia that the unicorn company that has a strong presence across Southeast Asian markets, are preparing to lay off some parts of their workforce, in batches. Employees are expected to be informed later today. After a banner year for tech, layoffs have been hitting the industry with... Read more » Read more

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Dashveenjit Kaur @ Tech Wire Asia · 09/29/2022 03:26 EDT

Exclusive: Malaysian unicorn to lay off staff within 24 hours — sources

Sources close to the matter told Tech Wire Asia that the unicorn company that has a strong presence across Southeast Asian markets, are preparing to lay off some parts of their workforce, in batches. Employees are expected to be informed later today. After a banner year for tech, layoffs have been hitting the industry with... Read more » Read more

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