Global digital leaders’ views on the trends, challenges and opportunities shaping businesses around the world. COVID-19 has proved to be the spark that ignited the digital transformation journey (DX) for a lot of companies. Trends that had been building for many years have been supercharged by the pandemic. Digital leaders…
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Dedicated to becoming a net neutral company by 2050 Oil and gas company, BP has joined the IBM Quantum Network to advance the use of quantum computing in the energy industry. By joining the IBM Quantum Network as an Industry Partner, BP will have access to IBM’s quantum expertise…
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FIs remain vigilant towards remote working risks and take pre-emptive steps to mitigate them. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) jointly issued today a paper on managing new risks that could emerge from extensive remote working arrangements adopted by financial institutions (FIs)…
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A percentage of workers will try and game AI-driven tracking systems by 2023 By 2023, more than one-in-ten workers will seek to trick artificial intelligence (AI) systems used to measure employee behaviour and productivity. Such systems have seen a significant uptick in use in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, states Gartner’s…
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CenturyLink is now Lumen Technologies Sponsored content: Wednesday, 2nd September 2020 – Singapore Focus Network, in partnership with Lumen, brought together leading Singapore-based IT executives from both local and international enterprises to discuss important Industry topics, including: The impact of COVID-19 on their businesses, and the new Future of Work…
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Lack of awareness about the security risks associated with this. Smart home devices and their apps represent a major weak link in the corporate cybersecurity chain as the lines between work and home life increasingly blur, according to Trend Micro’s latest study, Head in the Clouds study. About 36 per cent…
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APAC businesses had not planned for the scale of disruption due to the pandemic. Cybersecurity has emerged at the forefront of APAC IT leaders’ minds with the challenges of implementing more cloud-based services, giving data access to remote employees and with the evolving threat landscape exploiting the COVID-19 crisis. While…
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Gartner says bring your own PC security will transform businesses within the next five years. The 2020 Gartner Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security features two technologies that will have transformational impact on global businesses within the next 10 years. According to the analyst firm Bring your own PC (BYOPC) security will…
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Managing variety tasks with patients and healthcare workers remotely. The National Stroke Association of Malaysia (NASAM) had to turn quickly adapt the organisation, when all the immediate shutdown of all nine of its centres’ country-wide, due to COVID-19 lockdown. Through a frantic push to transit all communications and internal processes…
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Internet services was a concern for Aussie CIOs during pandemic. The Australian Competition and Consumer Competition said its Critical Services Report showed broadband speeds and connectivity held up well during May 2020 despite a big increase in the use of video conferencing and streaming services due to COVID-19. According to…
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