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Information technology (IT) in ASEAN

  • September 03, 2025 03 Sep'25

    Fastly CEO plots course through AI and security

    Chief exec Kip Compton explains how Fastly’s unified platform is solving the web’s biggest challenges, from content scrapping by AI bots to distributed denial-of-service attacks

  • September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

    JFrog extends DevSecOps playbook to AI governance

    The software security specialist is leveraging its capabilities in DevSecOps to address security, data provenance and bias in AI models

  • August 31, 2025 31 Aug'25

    Google Cloud brings on-premise Gemini AI to Singapore

    Move allows government agencies and regulated industries to run Google’s most powerful artificial intelligence models in their own datacentres, directly addressing data security and residency requirements to fuel the nation’s AI ambitions

  • August 27, 2025 27 Aug'25

    FairPrice taps Google Cloud to build agentic AI workforce

    Singapore’s largest retailer is deploying a suite of agentic AI applications built on Google’s Gemini, Vertex AI and Agentspace to transform its customer experience and internal workflows

  • August 26, 2025 26 Aug'25

    Broadcom bundles private AI into VCF, adds security automation

    At VMware Explore 2025, Broadcom unveiled an integrated private cloud stack with VMware Private AI now included in VCF subscriptions, alongside cyber security services and support for cloud-native object storage

  • August 25, 2025 25 Aug'25

    How to secure the identity perimeter and prepare for AI agents

    Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand explains why identity has become the critical security battleground, how decentralised credentials will reduce data breach risks, and why AI agents will need their own identities to be trusted

  • August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

    Dell builds on $50m Singapore investment with new AI hub

    Dell Technologies has opened an AI innovation hub to speed artificial intelligence adoption for enterprises across Asia-Pacific and upskill 10,000 students and mid-career professionals in Singapore

  • August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

    Without a data strategy, AI will just scale your chaos

    Snowflake’s chief data analytics officer, Anahita Tafvizi, explains why a data strategy focused on governance, consistency and accuracy is the only way to build artificial intelligence that users will trust

  • August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

    Singapore board directors to get cyber crisis training

    The Singapore Institute of Directors and Ensign InfoSecurity have launched a programme to equip 1,000 board leaders with the skills to navigate high-stakes decisions during a cyber crisis

  • August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

    Docusign moves beyond e-signatures with AI-powered contract platform

    Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen explains how the company is leveraging its brand recognition and GenAI capabilities to solve decades-old problems in how businesses create, negotiate and manage contracts

  • August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

    Zendesk CTO on the new era of customer experience

    Zendesk once pushed its AI vision, but now customers are leading the charge. Its CTO, Jason Maynard, explains how this reversal is creating roles like the ‘bot manager’ and shaping the future of customer experience

  • August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

    SK Telecom to build sovereign AI infrastructure

    The South Korean telco is building the Haein Cluster AI infrastructure to support its Petasus AI Cloud service in a bid to meet the demand for AI training and inference within its borders

  • August 08, 2025 08 Aug'25

    Cloudera touts hybrid data platform to power enterprise AI boom

    At its Evolve APAC 2025 conference in Singapore, Cloudera promises to end the compromise between on-premise data control and public cloud convenience with its hybrid data platform

  • August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

    Maybank inks RM1bn deal with Microsoft

    The five-year deal will see Malaysia’s largest bank accelerate its digital transformation efforts, building on its current strategy to embed AI across the organisation and enhance its technological capabilities

  • August 06, 2025 06 Aug'25

    Airtel to sell its in-house tech globally, inks deal with Singtel

    The Indian telecoms giant is commercialising the digital tools it built for its own vast network, using its subsidiary, Xtelify, to challenge cloud providers in India and sell its AI software to peers like Singtel and Globe Telecom

  • August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

    How StanChart balances AI-powered innovation with security

    Alvaro Garrido, Standard Chartered’s technology and security chief, explains how multi-layered defences and its approach to data protection allows the bank to embrace artificial intelligence without compromising on security

  • August 04, 2025 04 Aug'25

    Integrated platforms offer lifeline to Singapore’s F&B sector

    A partnership between payments firm Adyen and restaurant operating system provider Atlas is helping merchants to streamline operations, slashing errors by up to 80% and boosting sales as the sector faces record closures

  • August 03, 2025 03 Aug'25

    NUS and Google team up on AI research centre

    The National University of Singapore and Google will set up a joint research centre focused on applied AI in education, law, and public health while also building a talent pipeline for the city-state

  • August 01, 2025 01 Aug'25

    Microsoft, DISG launch AI agent accelerator programme

    Microsoft and DISG’s programme will provide cloud credits, training and tools to local businesses as part of a national push to create ‘frontier firms’ where humans work alongside autonomous AI agents

  • July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

    Palo Alto Networks to acquire CyberArk for $25bn

    The deal marks Palo Alto Networks’ entry into the identity and access management space amid the growing need to secure human, machine and emerging AI agent identities

  • July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

    ServiceNow targets ‘data hell’, eyes BI play

    The workflow giant is building a data foundation for agentic AI and eyeing a slice of the business intelligence and analytics market

  • July 30, 2025 30 Jul'25

    Industry experts warn crypto infrastructure is ‘creaking’

    A report from experts at HSBC, Thales and InfoSec Global claims decades-old cryptographic systems are failing, putting businesses at risk from current vulnerabilities and the threat from quantum computing

  • July 29, 2025 29 Jul'25

    Logicalis targets APAC’s mid-market with ‘GSI quality’ services

    The global technology service provider is banking on its ‘think global, act local’ strategy, a deep focus on application modernisation and security to differentiate itself in the region

  • July 28, 2025 28 Jul'25

    Microsoft opens first Southeast Asia research lab

    Microsoft Research Asia’s Singapore facility will pursue breakthroughs in domain-specific foundation models and agentic AI for sectors like healthcare and finance, aligning with the country’s AI strategy

  • July 24, 2025 24 Jul'25

    ServiceNow tackles ‘sidecar AI’ chaos with agentic workforce strategy

    ServiceNow unveils agentic workforce strategy to orchestrate autonomous AI agents across business processes to help organisations avoid the complexity and problems with managing disconnected applications

  • July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

    Colt targets crypto traders with low-latency connectivity

    Connectivity service aims to give digital asset traders and enterprises deploying AI applications a performance edge by connecting cloud regions faster than native backbones

  • July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

    ASEAN urged to seize 5G-AI opportunity

    A report warns the region could miss out on economic opportunities as the growing digital divide between ASEAN member states threatens to undermine its competitiveness

  • July 21, 2025 21 Jul'25

    Singapore under ongoing cyber attack from APT group

    Nation-state actor UNC3886 is actively targeting Singapore’s critical national infrastructure in a sophisticated espionage and disruption campaign, with the country mounting a whole-of-government response

  • July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

    ASEAN’s first driverless bus service debuts in Singapore

    The fully autonomous shuttle will operate at Resorts World Sentosa, marking a significant step in Singapore’s push to integrate autonomous vehicles into its public transport network

  • July 16, 2025 16 Jul'25

    Hackbots biggest cloud security risk, slashing attack times to minutes

    With cyber criminals using automated tools to steal data in minutes, organisations must focus on runtime protection and automated responses to combat the rising threat from AI and misconfigured cloud assets

  • July 16, 2025 16 Jul'25

    Securonix tackles security data deluge with AI-driven platform

    As security data volumes grow and security budgets tighten, Securonix is betting on its AI-driven platform to help businesses manage threats cost-effectively, says its CEO

  • July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25

    Datadog doubles down on APAC, targets faster growth

    The observability tools supplier is executing a multi-year growth plan for Asia-Pacific and Japan, focusing on data residency, localisation and AI-driven observability to grow its market share

  • July 14, 2025 14 Jul'25

    AI adoption grows amid falling trust in AI outputs

    As organisations move from AI hype to reality, a decline in trust for AI outputs is not a sign of failure, but a signal of market maturity, according to Bhavya Kapoor, Avanade's Asia-Pacific president

  • July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

    AWS bolsters security tools to help customers manage AI risks

    Amazon Web Services has unveiled new and updated security services, including container-level threat detection and a unified command centre, to help organisations build and secure artificial intelligence applications

  • July 09, 2025 09 Jul'25

    CIOs will use AI and low-code to combat SaaS sprawl

    Nintex CEO Amit Mathradas explains why the proliferation of software-as-a-service tools is unsustainable and how CIOs are reclaiming control by building their own applications using artificial intelligence and automation

  • July 08, 2025 08 Jul'25

    Proofpoint bets on APAC growth amid spike in AI-driven threats

    With cyber attacks spiking in non-English-speaking markets such as Japan, the security firm is boosting its regional presence to combat a wave of AI-generated threats

  • July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

    Digital warfare is blurring civilian front lines

    Singapore’s defence cyber chief warns that the traditional lines between military conflict and civilian life are blurring, with adversaries now targeting civilian systems and using AI to put the threat landscape on steroids

  • July 04, 2025 04 Jul'25

    Medow Health AI debuts AI scribe tool in Singapore

    The Australian health technology company has launched its AI-powered scribe platform in Singapore to help healthcare professionals automatically capture and structure clinical notes, reports and referral letters

  • July 03, 2025 03 Jul'25

    How GoTo’s high-stakes cloud shift is powering its AI future

    The Indonesian tech giant has migrated half its infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud, paving the way for AI initiatives to solve real-world business problems and support local languages

  • July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

    Enterprise AI adoption moving beyond experimentation

    Moe Abdula, vice-president of customer engineering at Google Cloud, discusses the shift from AI experimentation to production, and the role of infrastructure and agentic platforms