Lloyd’s and reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter finds vulnerabilities for industrial and manufacturing businesses. As cyber threats continue to evolve and become more sophisticated, it is crucial for insurers to understand these emerging risks in order to keep pace with their clients’ exposures. The recently released report, The Emerging Cyber Threat to…
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The region has recorded a significant uptick in digital services adoption, including the emergence of two new fields, healthtech and edtech. COVID-19 brought significant disruption to the global economy, and with it came permanent changes to the jobs landscape. Across Southeast Asia, many businesses and workers continue to navigate the…
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Heng Swee Keat Deputy Prime Minister, Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies and Minister for Finance of Singapore delivered the country’s budget for 2021 financial year. Budget 2021: Emerging Stronger Together sets out the Government’s plans to continue to tackle our immediate challenges, and build a stronger Singapore that is economically…
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Accellion’s file sharing system called FTA has been illegally attacked. Singaporean multinational telecommunications conglomerate Singtel has been informed by its third-party vendor Accellion that it has suffered a cyber attack. According to Singtel, Accellion’s file sharing system called FTA has been illegally attacked by unidentified hackers. This is a standalone…
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Overview of the cyber security environment within the health sector over a twelve month period January – December 2020. The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has released a snapshot of the of key cyber security threats in the health sector. The report offers advice to executives and cyber security professionals…
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Financial institutions need to enhance the resilience of capital, technology and talent. Over the past nine months, the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the banking industry across multiple dimensions, by ushering in a new competitive landscape, prompting a new wave of innovation, and accelerating digitization in almost every sphere of banking…
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Application potential in different domains such as governance, banking and finance, cyber security India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has identified Blockchain Technology as one of the important research areas having application potential in different domains such as governance, banking, finance, and cyber security. MeitY has supported a…
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Board directors rate cybersecurity second-highest source of risk for the enterprise. By 2025, 40 per cent of boards of directors will have a dedicated cybersecurity committee overseen by a qualified board member, up from less than 10 per cent today, according to Gartner. This is one of several organisational changes Gartner expects…
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Healthcare company in Australia saw a high rate of Teams use during the pandemic in 2020. Bupa is a healthcare company offering a broad range of services, including aged care and retirement, dental, optical, health insurance, and community wellbeing initiatives. When COVID-19 struck it was all hands to the pumps…
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