Cybersecurity

Singapore-based cybersecurity firm Blackpanda has raised $15 million in its Series A funding round co led by Primavera Venture Partners and Gaw Capital Partners. The round will fund the expansion of its technology enabled cybersecurity services, including digital forensics and incident response.

David Hope, Senior Vice President of Asia Pacific and Japan at ForgeRock, discusses the trends driving innovation in the digital identity industry in a TechNode Global Q&A. He predicts that passwordless authentication and AI-driven access and governance will be key drivers for innovation moving forward.

Post-Covid digitalization has also seen a spike in fraud and malicious activities. Companies need to take extra precautions to protect their customers this year.

"It’s important that people start thinking about cyber risk now because hackers know that the vast majority of businesses and organizations don’t have security in place.

As businesses and users around the world become increasingly connected through mobile cloud-based platforms and services, cybercriminals are devising phishing strategies that specifically exploit these connections.

This post provides a glimpse of the challenges we face when mapping attack surfaces at scale - when you do enumeration at scale, you inevitably see weird things that turn supposedly simple actions into a little more complex actions.

With many businesses still in the midst of digital transformation, they must be agile and always prepared for potential attacks in their evolving business models, be it on their cyber supply chains or cloud services.

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.