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The CMO’s Guide to Embracing AI as a Superpower

By Catherine Yong|2024-09-05T14:28:51+08:00August 12, 2024|Categories: AI, Experiences|Tags: CMO, featured, Field Guide, Forrester, leadership, marketing, skills, startup, Startup - Field Guide|

Rather than fight AI, marketing leaders should consider embracing AI as a superpower, and begin equipping their teams with the tools and mindset to optimize artificial intelligence technology. Here’s a realization that is becoming more prevalent these days among CMOs - Artificial Intelligence technology is no longer a nice-to-have, but an imperative. According to Forrester’s Q2 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey, 2024, 30% of CMOs in the US are directly leading their marketing organizations’ AI efforts. “One of the biggest functions disrupted by AI is marketing.” said Norm Yustin of Russell Reynolds. In another report, “How AI Impacts the ... Read More

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Insulated Innovation towards True Hybrid

By Catherine Yong|2024-08-31T18:03:33+08:00August 9, 2024|Categories: Data|Tags: data architecture, enterprise AI, featured, hybrid|

After years of touting the benefits of hybrid - writing applications once and deploying them into any environment - AI is thrown into the mix. Only now, with current data architectures we may finally be closer to achieving true hybrid.Cloudera, the data and AI company that handles 25 exabytes of data, currently as much as if not more than each global hyperscaler, recently held their annual data and AI conference, EVOLVE24 in APAC, in Singapore. Charles Sansbury, CEO The company's C-suite like CEO, Charles Sansbury, Chief Strategy Officer, Abhas Ricky, and Frank O' Dowd Chief Revenue Officer, are keen for ... Read More

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The Need to Embed Security into Supply Chains

By Catherine Yong|2024-08-31T18:02:50+08:00August 7, 2024|Categories: Experiences|Tags: featured, supply chains, third-party risk|

Recent developments on the cybersecurity legislation front, sees the industry stirring with interest and aligning with region-level ambition for a thriving digital economy. Will all these amount to finally embedding security into supply chains and cybersecurity being done differently from how it used to be? During a fireside chat session with Blackberry's VP of Product Security, Christine Gadsby at Blackberry's CCoE, the cybersecurity chapter President of ASEAN's CIO Association (ACIOA) Dr. Carrine Teoh observed how the recent NACSA Cybersecurity Summit generated significant interest and collaboration within the industry, indicating the growing vibrancy of the cybersecurity field in Malaysia. This ... Read More

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The AI Imperative in Cyber Operations

By Catherine Yong|2024-08-11T18:58:39+08:00August 1, 2024|Categories: AI, Experiences|Tags: cyber operations, featured|

AI and data analytics are proven capabilities in cyber operations. Securonix believes that generative AI now can make advanced threat detection accessible in ways not possible before. According to Securonix’s Chief Product Officer, Haggai Polak, the adoption of AI in cybersecurity is no longer optional but a necessity. With the overwhelming volume of data from devices, networks, and users, exacerbated by a shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals, organizations simply can't keep up using traditional methods. Haggai Polak Haggai emphasizes that AI allows security teams to process and analyze massive amounts of data at speeds impossible for humans ... Read More

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Alternative Training Pathways to Fill the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

By Catherine Yong|2024-08-06T09:11:48+08:00July 31, 2024|Categories: Experiences|Tags: awareness, cybersecurity, skills gaps, technical, training|

CFCI, or Centre For Cybersecurity Institute’s James Lim began his cybersecurity training initiative that aims to fill cybersecurity skills gap, because of earlier experience with incomprehensible medical jargons at the tender age of 16 when he had to make critical decisions for his mom who'd suffered a stroke. Early experiences have contributed to James Lim’s current philosophy of empowering people with skills instead of just solutions. He also firmly believed that the industry can’t just depend on schools to feed into the talent pipeline. James Lim, CFCI “There are a lot of talents, people with the right ... Read More

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The Cybersecurity Industry: An Industry Veteran Speaks

By Catherine Yong|2024-08-06T09:42:26+08:00July 29, 2024|Categories: Experiences, AI|Tags: cybersecurity, industry, managed services|

Industry veteran and founder of LMNTRIX, a cybersecurity provider of Australian origins, shares his observations of the industry, then and now. LMNTRIX prides itself on keeping up with new innovations and threats across cloud, SaaS, and AI-based cybersecurity tools. It was founded by Carlo Minassian, whose over two decades of experience showed him that cybersecurity budgets of billions are not keeping hackers at bay and in fact, were possibly contributing to alerts fatigue and hurdles to effective cybersecurity. This was only two of a number of things he observed about cybersecurity industry, and it served as the impetus for ... Read More

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Cybersecurity as a Trust Catalyst

By Catherine Yong|2024-08-15T13:32:00+08:00July 25, 2024|Categories: Experiences|Tags: cybersecurity, trust|

Trust as an experience is built and nurtured over time between a customer and a vendor. What happens though, when cybersecurity is added to the equation? Can it be that much needed trust catalyst? When speaking with Hashtaq's Managing Director, Renee Tan, she shared that trust can be built through relationship-building and aligning values with the customer. At the sidelines of MCION’s 2nd summit in Penang, Renee also shared highlights of her presentation, one of them being that “There is the biological side of trust whereby with the oxytocin hormone, you can create more trust and the willingness to ... Read More

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The 2nd MCION Cybersecurity Summit Concludes In Penang, Heads to Indonesia in August

By Catherine Yong|2024-07-24T12:55:49+08:00July 21, 2024|Categories: Experiences|Tags: conference, cybersecurity, event|

The 2nd Malaysian CIO Network or MCION Cybersecurity Summit began with a dinner to welcome participants and allow vendors and tech and business decision makers, a chance to network. The two emcees for the first night networking event. NACSA's CEO, Ir. Dr. Megat Zuhairy Bin Megat Tajuddin, as guest-of-honour, gave a brief intro, while MDEC's Ng Jun Wen shared about what his portfolio, Digital Exports, was about. Jason Liew, flexHR flexHR, a leading human capital management and workforce engagement solutions provider also took the opportunity to introduce what the system was capable of. CEO, Jason ... Read More

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The Critical Alignment Between IT and Security

By Catherine Yong|2024-08-09T12:20:23+08:00July 16, 2024|Categories: Data|Tags: business continuity, data management, featured, rarnsomware, resiliency|

Backups are not sexy, but they are necessary. A Cohesity resiliency advocate stated this during a ransomware simulation that highlighted how backups should not be overlooked and instead be optimized for security-IT critical alignment that helps businesses achieve continuity and resiliency. Cohesity, a data management specialist that aims to support cybersecurity initiatives, recently hosted an Escape Room Challenge for members of the media from Singapore and Malaysia. James Blake, head of global cyber resilience strategy at Cohesity, had created the scenario based on his vast experience in building security operations centers (SOCs), and executing incident responses for large companies ... Read More

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Finetuning Algorithms to be Developed Locally But Connected Globally

By Catherine Yong|2024-08-01T16:05:18+08:00July 15, 2024|Categories: AI, Data|Tags: data centers, featured, infrastructure|

What does it take to build secure global infrastructure that trains algorithm models locally while ensuring data sovereignty and cultural appropriateness of AI applications? Traditional cloud computing often involves latency, as data must travel back and forth between devices and centralized cloud servers. However, edge computing processes data closer to its source, significantly reducing latency. Gcore, a global infrastructure provider with cloud, edge computing, hosting, and security solutions, professes being able to offer this, thanks to its over 180 points of presence around the globe. In this region itself, Gcore has stood up 38 points of presence. Artificial Intelligence ... Read More

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