Cybersecurity

Singapore’s Silence Laboratories raises $1.7M seed funding led by Pi Ventures

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…

A fraud deterrent with an open data approach: Digital Footprint Analysis

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.

Cybersecurity startup watchTowr totals $10.25M in Pre-Series A investment

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.

Palo Alto Networks appoints Steven Scheurmann as Regional Vice President for ASEAN

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.

ams OSRAM and trinamiX jointly release demonstration of ultra-secure face authentication behind OLED

ams OSRAM and trinamiX are working together to provide smartphone manufacturers with a highly secure and convenient user authentication system that will be available later this year.

Understanding how MFA works for you, and how it doesn’t

Ultimately, there are pros and cons to every security measure, and we are in a constant trade-off between good cybersecurity and ease of use.

To track or not to track: The marketer’s dilemma

Without browser tracking tools, marketers will struggle to see which channels, creative material, and messaging contributed to each conversion. If visibility is diminished, how can marketers know where to invest and optimize?

Indonesia planning to relax foreign investment policies for local tech startups

Indonesia readying tough new curbs for online platforms – report

Indonesia is one of the world top-10 markets by the number of users for social media firms including Youtube, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Whatsapp. Indonesia is also the world's fourth most populous country.

Singapore insurtech provider Cyber Sierra raises $4.3M seed fund led by Leo Capital

Cyber Sierra announced Tuesday the completion of a $4.3 million seed round of financing led by Leo Capital, with participation from AppWorks, Credit Saison, as well as angel investors including prominent founders and leaders in the cloud and insurance sectors.With this round of financing, It plans to launch and grow its business offerings to include more…

CISOs: Collaboration and Visibility into OT networks is necessary to mitigate future OT cyber risks

Alarmingly, Gartner predicts that cyber attackers will be able to weaponize OT environments to successfully harm or kill humans by the year 2025. But with this sensationalism comes a greater awareness of the pressing need for specialized OT security solutions and standards. In fact, OT security has become a security issue of national concern.