Cybersecurity

Working freelance and being a digital nomad means everything – absolutely everything – is your responsibility. Keeping track of your finances, deciding where to work from and when, finding clients, and meeting data privacy requirements … it’s all down to you.

Leadership needs to be aware of the reputational damage that a cyberattack can cause their organizations and understand that prevention is better (not to mention cheaper) than not doing anything. A genuine interest in cybersecurity will also cascade down from the CEO to the remote workforce, ensuring better awareness and better security.

Remember, your network is only as strong as your weakest device. While we enjoy the convenience that connectivity brings us, it remains crucial to keep vigilant of possible doors that we leave open on the grid be it at home or at work, especially hybrid living as the world has become.

The November season is now arguably the highlight of APAC’s retail calendar alongside the Lunar New Year. But for retail brands coming under sustained bot attacks, the season of merriment can quickly become one of stress. However, retail marketers who prepare and act swiftly will be counting their investment returns, and not their losses, once the shopping…

In an industry that has for years complained that a talent shortage is an insurmountable limitation, we must look to data and technology to automate tasks that no longer need human input—so we can free up human intelligence to solve more complex challenges. 

In Southeast Asia, data protection as a business culture is still gaining awareness, and with remote working becoming more common, greater urgency and action are needed. Data plays a vital role in any successful business, and backups are central to any data protection strategy. Protecting this data is mission-critical, and it falls to database…

Silence Laboratories, a web3 focused cybersecurity startup headquartered in Singapore, said Thursday it has closed a $1.7 million round in a seed funding, led by Pi Ventures. The round also included participation from web3 centric funds such as imToken ventures and prominent angels like Daniel Ari Friedman, Mahin Gupta, CK Vishwakarma, Priyeshu Garg, Ashish…

One thing that all criminals know is how important it is to cover your tracks. We’re talking all the way from your lowest-level criminals – say, a kid blaming the dog for the broken window – all the way up to your everyday digital huckster, defrauding companies for thousands at a time.

watchTowr will use the additional funds to continue enhancing the technology that underpins its proprietary platform and to seize growth opportunities that are arising from markets outside of Southeast Asia.

Scheurmann is a recognized expert on topics such as the digital economy, cybersecurity, AI, and cloud technology. He has taught at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School and regularly speaks at industry events.