Opinion

AI-assisted development is accelerating software production across Asia, but security teams are struggling to match machine-speed code generation with remediation, identity controls and governance.

Virginia Galarón Herrera of New Relic examines how AI governance is changing the build-versus-buy decision for observability tooling across Southeast Asian organizations.

Hugging Face's July security incident exposed a practical problem for incident response: the AI tools analysts normally use may reject malicious artifacts or send sensitive breach data outside an approved environment.

Hitachi Vantara’s Wendy Koh examines why regional AI strategies across APAC still require local decisions on infrastructure, resilience, skills and regulation.

Thales' Garen Ling argues that enterprises should govern AI systems with the same rigor applied to privileged users, including access, identity and data controls.

Digital tools are moving deeper into construction operations across Asia-Pacific, but skills, fragmented systems and data quality still shape the results.

Cognition's Kevin Lee argues that as coding agents become more proactive, verification and evidence are becoming the new engineering bottleneck.

Here is a seven-check audit for Southeast Asian SMEs trying to make their public information easier for search and AI systems to access and verify.

Red Hat developer advocates Grace Ableidinger and Sawyer Bowerman explain why silent tool-calling failures can undermine multistep AI agents even when model reasoning is sound.

Adobe JAPAC President Ben Goodman argues that AI value depends on how well organizations connect data, content and workflows while maintaining trust and operational discipline.