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Information technology (IT) in ASEAN

  • November 07, 2025 07 Nov'25

    How Palo Alto Networks is leveraging AI

    Palo Alto Networks CIO Meerah Rajavel explains how the company is using AI to sieve through 90 billion security events a day, and why security and user experience are two sides of the same coin

  • November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

    Darktrace: Developer tools under constant attack

    Attackers are using automated tools to target development environments within seconds of them going live, warns Darktrace’s global field chief information security officer

  • November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

    Most developers in Southeast Asia and India use AI tools

    Study finds that 95% of developers in Southeast Asia and India use AI tools, but many of their employers lack formal AI policies, leaving them to forge their own paths in upskilling and governance

  • November 04, 2025 04 Nov'25

    Ryt Bank taps agentic AI for conversational banking

    Malaysia’s Ryt Bank is using its own LLM and agentic AI framework to allow customers to perform banking transactions in natural language, replacing traditional menus and buttons

  • November 03, 2025 03 Nov'25

    How Zoom is approaching agentic AI

    Zoom CTO Xuedong Huang explains how AI Companion 3.0’s agentic AI capabilities can help turn conversations into completed actions using long-term memory and deep reasoning

  • October 30, 2025 30 Oct'25

    Yubico bolsters APAC presence, touts device subscriptions

    Yubico is hiring local teams in Singapore and pitching its subscription service to help enterprises secure employee access to corporate networks and applications

  • October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

    Rapid7: Cyber defences stuck in the 1980s as threats mount

    The company’s chief product officer notes that many defence tactics are still stuck in the past, urging organisations to adopt AI-driven security platforms to improve threat detection and response

  • October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

    Monday.com eyes ASEAN growth with Singapore hub

    The work management specialist’s Collier Quay office will serve as its hub for Southeast Asia as it looks to build deeper relationships with a growing customer base

  • October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

    Cisco and Splunk plot multi-year data fabric journey

    Company leaders talk up their vision for the Cisco Data Fabric that will allow enterprises to gain insights about their IT infrastructure and security posture from machine data wherever it resides, from the network edge to the cloud

  • October 27, 2025 27 Oct'25

    BDO Unibank taps Zscaler to secure cloud migration

    Zscaler’s deal with the Philippine bank comes as it is expanding its platform’s capabilities and footprint across Asia

  • October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

    AI chip challenger Groq eyes APAC expansion

    Groq’s novel chip architecture that speeds up AI inferencing has attracted a fast-growing developer base as it plans its first datacentre in the Asia-Pacific region

  • October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

    Singapore unveils efforts to govern agentic AI, prepare for post-quantum era

    Guidelines and tools will help organisations in the city-state manage risks from AI agents and prepare for a future where quantum computers could break current encryption

  • October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

    Building security and trust in AI agents

    AI agents require standardised guidelines, clear human responsibility and a shared language between developers and policymakers to be secure and trusted, experts say

  • October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

    New cyber resilience centre to help SMEs fend off cyber threats

    Spearheaded by the Singapore Business Federation, the cyber resilience centre will equip SMEs in the city-state with cyber security capabilities to mitigate and recover from cyber attacks

  • October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

    AI market is ‘frothy not bubbly’, says Cloudian CEO

    To meet the growth in demand for on-premise AI inferencing, Cloudian has developed an AI platform to help enterprises apply large language models to their private data and address security and sovereignty concerns

  • October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

    F5 admits nation-state actor stole BIG-IP source code

    F5 discloses that a nation-state actor has stolen source code and unpatched vulnerability data for its widely used BIG-IP products, raising supply chain security concerns across the industry

  • October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

    Obsession with cyber breach notification fuelling costly mistakes

    The race to meet security breach notification deadlines is leading to staff burnout, destroyed evidence and a culture of blame, warns a Trend Micro risk and security strategist

  • October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

    Infor doubles down on APAC with cloud and AI

    The enterprise software firm is targeting the region’s vast manufacturing sector by easing the move to the cloud and rolling out industry-specific AI agents, says CEO Kevin Samuelson

  • October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

    Nvidia scores Meta and Oracle for networking fabric

    Nvidia lands hyperscalers Meta and Oracle for its Spectrum-X networking fabric and is leading an industry coalition to adopt an 800-volt DC power standard for datacentres

  • October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

    Thales: Trust in AI for critical systems needs to be engineered

    Confidence in artificial intelligence capabilities that power critical systems must go beyond words and be built on a hybrid model that combines data with physics and logic to prove reliability, according to Thales’s chief scientist

  • October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25

    Infor debuts AI agents to tackle industry-specific tasks

    Infor unveils role-based AI agents to automate workflows in niche sectors from dairy to automotive, as well as a new cloud migration programme to ease the transition to cloud

  • October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25

    Meta to boost APAC connectivity with subsea cable

    The 8,000km Candle subsea cable is expected to bolster internet capacity for more than a billion people as tech giants continue to invest in digital infrastructure across the region

  • October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

    FairPrice deploys autonomous vehicles for supply chain operations

    The supermarket giant has teamed up with tech firm Zelos to deploy a fleet of electric autonomous vehicles to bolster supply chain efficiency and cut carbon emissions

  • October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

    SAP: AI is commoditising business applications

    Business applications are at risk of being commoditised with artificial intelligence increasingly becoming the new interface that lets businesses execute tasks across different systems, according to a senior SAP leader

  • October 02, 2025 02 Oct'25

    Singtel debuts low-code platform to ease AI deployment

    Singtel’s AI Studio, part of its CUBΣ network-as-a-service offering, aims to simplify AI development and deployment while addressing enterprise concerns around security and data sovereignty

  • October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

    Why AI agent projects are stalling in production

    A Confluent technology strategist explains why multi-agent workflows become brittle monoliths and how access to real-time, streaming data is key to the success of agentic AI deployments

  • October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

    How AI is driving a rethink of storage architecture

    Pure Storage’s head of AI infrastructure, Par Botes, argues that the growing use of artificial intelligence will require storage systems with audit trails and versioning to ensure trust and traceability

  • September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

    Google unveils AI-powered security to trap ransomware attacks

    The new security capability, available at no extra cost for most Google Workspace users, detects mass file encryption during ransomware attacks, stops the attacks from spreading and allows for restoration of files

  • September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

    Interview: GitLab CTO on freeing developers for innovation with AI

    Sabrina Farmer explains how GitLab’s platform for the software development lifecycle is using artificial intelligence to help eliminate developer toil and drive innovation

  • September 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

    How Mediacorp stops livestreams from freezing at key moments

    Singapore’s national broadcaster has achieved a 99.5% crash-free rate for its mobile apps by using observability tools to find and fix issues in real time, ensuring a smoother experience for users

  • September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25

    Lenovo targets AI and hybrid cloud to drive APAC growth

    The tech supplier’s infrastructure arm is tapping its partner ecosystem and as-a-service model to help the region’s enterprises move from AI experimentation to delivering tangible business outcomes

  • September 24, 2025 24 Sep'25

    Alibaba Cloud targets full-stack AI dominance

    The Chinese cloud giant has unveiled the Qwen3-Max model, a suite of agent development tools and cloud infrastructure upgrades to position itself as a one-stop shop for AI development and deployment

  • September 24, 2025 24 Sep'25

    Salesforce shifts focus from AI models to agentic AI

    Rather than being preoccupied with large language models, Salesforce is now focused on building AI agents, with an eye on achieving what it calls ‘enterprise general intelligence’

  • September 21, 2025 21 Sep'25

    NUS supercomputer enters global Top500

    Dubbed Hopper, the supercomputer can perform 25 quadrillion calculations per second and is already fast-tracking research in fields from biomedical engineering to clean energy applications

  • September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

    Pentera expands in APAC, taps AI to outsmart attackers

    The penetration testing specialist is expanding its presence in the Asia-Pacific region and deploying AI-driven capabilities as it eyes acquisitions and a potential IPO

  • September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

    Techcombank wields data and AI to drive customer engagement

    By unifying data on the Databricks platform, the Vietnam bank has built AI capabilities to deliver hyper-personalised offers to 15 million customers and expand its footprint beyond its traditional affluent base

  • September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

    Firms urged to adopt risk-based data sovereignty strategy

    Geopolitical uncertainty is forcing organisations to rethink where their data is located, but a full retreat from the public cloud is not the answer

  • September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

    Google Cloud unveils open protocol for agentic payments

    Google’s Agent Payments Protocol is an open standard developed with more than 60 global partners to create a secure standard for AI-driven transactions

  • September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

    Exabeam: Treat AI agents as the new insider threat

    As artificial intelligence agents are given more power inside organisations, Exabeam’s chief AI officer, Steve Wilson, argues they must be monitored for rogue behaviour just like their human counterparts

  • September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

    Telcos urged to ‘delayer’ for survival and growth

    Faced with commoditised services and low returns, telcos must radically restructure into separate infrastructure, network and service units to unlock value and innovate, says Kearney