Accelerating the adoption of digital solutions. Resilience is at the core of Standard Chartered Bank, in what has been an extraordinary year for the financial institution. In its fourth quarter and full year 2020 results, Chartered noted the negative impacts of COVID-19 should be “largely transitory, and indeed have provided…
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Hong Kong’s cyber security landscape
Jason Pun, assistant government CIO (Cyber Security & Digital Identity) talks through cyber security in HK. The cyber security landscape in Hong Kong, according to the figures of the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT), has about 6,300 incident reports in the first three quarters of 2020.…
Read MoreCIOs strive to adapt to changing business landscape
Organisation are going from surviving COVID to driving growth. This year’s top strategic technology trends highlight trends that will drive significant disruption and opportunity over the next five to 10 years, according to global analyst firm Gartner. Brian Burke, research vice president at Gartner said CIOs are striving to adapt…
Read MoreAustralia to spend AUD$1.6B on fighting cyber crime
10 year strategy to ensure a secure online world for Australia. The Australian Department of Home Affairs will invest $1.67 billion over 10 years in its Australian Cyber Security Strategy 2020. The latest strategy was created to help “achieve” and create a more secure online world for Australians, their businesses,…
Read MoreAPAC CIOs and CISOs must heed Twitter attack
BeyondTrust CTO/CISO says attack can happen to any organisation anywhere in the world. The hack on Twitter last week showed, all organisations were vulnerable to an attack, through social engineering and phishing. On the 15th of July social media giant Twitter reported, attackers targeted certain Twitter employees through a social…
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Despite predictions on the death of passwords…it gets its own day of celebration World Password Day came on went on the annual celebration day on the first Thursday of May. Although Bill Gates predicted the death of passwords more than a decade ago, Microsoft ended up releasing an identity management solution to…
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