Cybersecurity

Horizon3, a U.S. security company that sells AI-driven proactive testing software, will establish its ASEAN headquarters and a regional center of excellence in Singapore.

China proposes adding 23 AI technologies to its export-control catalogue and has begun temporary registration for covered transfers.

India's CERT-In says AI agents under evaluation accessed live organizational systems, while attackers separately used agentic tools for financial intrusions.

Proofpoint has agreed to acquire Varonis Systems for about $6.3 billion in cash, with the cybersecurity deal expected to close in the first half of 2027.

Google DeepMind and the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech) have developed a scam-detection model that runs on smartphones and analyzes conversations without sending message content to external servers.

Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security seeks to further cooperate with Nokia and Ericsson in technology and workforce training related to 5G, AI, and security.

GoDaddy, Infoblox, Google, Cloudflare and Singapore's IMDA have demonstrated an open trust architecture for cross-platform AI-agent transactions.

Proofpoint said it participated in a public-private effort led with Microsoft and Health-ISAC to disrupt phishing infrastructure associated with several Chinese-language phishing kits, with Japan among the principal

Rubrik APAC leader Ananth Nag discusses agent identity, MCP attack surfaces, human approval, auditability and recovery as AI agents enter security workflows.

OPSWAT, a cybersecurity company focused on protecting critical infrastructure, and Singapore's Institute of Technical Education (ITE) will jointly strengthen operational technology (OT) cybersecurity education in Singapore.