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The July 2020 issue of the World Bank’s Financial Sector’s Cybersecurity: a Regulatory Digest noted that responding to cyber incidents goes beyond an engineering problem and that any business continuity decision cannot be delegated to IT specialists. FutureCIO spoke to Kumar Ritesh, chairman and CEO of Cyfirma, to discuss among other things the operational risks of cyber threats to Asia’s financia...

Depending on who you talk to, ransomware seemed to be the popular topic of discussion among security vendors. Emsisoft estimates that ransomware attackers collectively took in USD25 billion in 2019. A Barracuda Networks report in 2020 indicated that 51% of organisations in Asia-Pacific have already had at least one data breach or cybersecurity incident since shifting to a remote working model. Che...

For years, information security vendors and experts have been touting the importance of securing the perimeter, with strategies like defence-in-depth as one of several approaches to take as organisations embrace a connected economy. Over the years, technologies and approaches have come up to the challenge of securing the enterprise. The variety of choice and technologies have left some stupefied. ...

With software as with buying a truck, there are many variables to consider when deciding to build or buy. What is observable these days is that more organisations are prioritising on time-to-market because time is money, meaning the longer it takes to move the application from development to production, the more money the company is losing. Is there a middle ground to all of this?  In today’s PodC...

An integration platform is a set of automation tools for connecting applications deployed in different environments. It is not farfetched to imagine that as we move deeper into best-of-breed and multi-cloud, the technologies available to organisations as well as the environments from which to fulfil business needs to grow in complexity.  To complicate this is COVID-19 which threw a spanner on how...

In the future of work, CIOs will need to consider how technology can sustain a distributed workforce model that reaches beyond the restrictions of a traditional office environment and may be dispersed across geographies. In today’s podchat for FutureCIO, we have with us Chandra Sinnathamby, Head of Adobe Document Cloud, Asia Pacific, to discuss the results of the recently released Forrester report...

Covid-19 revealed just how badly enterprises in Asia are when it comes to security. According to CrowdStrike the highest ransomware payments recorded to date came from Asia. FutureCIO spoke to Mr Sherif El Nabawi, Vice President, Engineering, Asia-Pacific and Japan, CrowdStrike to better understand the state of the security landscape as more and more enterprises go digital-native.

It is the role of the insurance industry to take on the volatility that clients and corporates are unwilling to take. As a rule, the value of insurance rises during times of crises. Consumers tend to buy more insurance when things are bad? COVID-19 went against this norm mainly because insurers were not ready for the crisis. Travis Callahan, co-founder and president of Ignatica, talks to FutureCIO...

As we’ve seen, many governments across Asia are turning to data to help manage the impact of COVID-19, from contact tracing to managing safe distancing. With more countries looking to reopen their borders and ramp up economic activity, the need for fast, accurate analytics is critical for delivering timely, and reliable insights to inform policymaking.  But beyond the pandemic, the role of data an...

Indonesia’s Bank Mandiri is taking a data-driven approach towards protecting its customer base, growing as a business, and proving itself a valuable partner to the government in times of need – as in the COVID-19 case. In this episode of PodChats for FutureCIO, we spoke to Billie Setiawan, head of Enterprise Data Management, Data Analytics Lead; and Grace Winnee, Vice President, Enterprise Data Ma...

Steven Sim, vice president of ISACA’s Singapore Chapter and Kenny Yeo, Associate Director and Head of Asia Pacific Cyber Security Practice, ICT, Frost & Sullivan, joined FutureCIO for a review of the recently completed joint survey on the State of Cybersecurity in Singapore.

Within the finance function, departments like accounts payables got a renewed sense of urgency to transform following recognition that the pandemic crisis we are experiencing this year may not be a one-off occurrence and there is a need, and an opportunity, to introduce reforms to the way things are done to ensure that future crises will not have as disruptive an impact on overall operations as th...

DevSecOps attempts to bring security into the DevOps methodology by integrating security testing into the continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines. As a practice, DevSecOps is still very nascent in development teams. According to the WhiteHat Security report, 2019 Application Security Statistics Report , an average of more than 50% of apps are always vulnerable for organisations th...

IDC says rationalization of legacy IT, both applications and infrastructure, is a critical prerequisite for successful IT transformation.  In this PodChats for FutureCIO, Rijo George Thomas, senior analyst, IDC Asia-Pacific, talks about the application modernisation landscape, including the drivers and inhibitors..

Artificial Intelligence has been the stuff of science fiction for years. With recent advances in machine learning, natural language processing and problem-solving, have these technologies sufficiently matured to warrant concerns among consumers and governments?  In this episode,  Wai Keat Cheang, partner and head of consulting for EY Singapore, discusses the adoption trends around AI and approache...

Depending on who you talk to there is an associated cost with keeping the lights on as some in the IT industry would call it. In a period when hiring and retaining skilled resources to do routine maintenance work is less and less attractive to management, new innovations in technology and practices may help “keep the lights on” while redirecting the IT team to do higher-value work. Of course, ther...

In an Institute of Management Accountants survey of more than 700 companies worldwide, it was discovered that the most successful organizations use financial planning and analysis (FP&A) to drive results, not just predict them. In this episode of PodChats for FutureCFO, David Upton , Jedox 's Director of Strategic Partnerships and Alliances APAC, on how FP&A professionals in Asia-Paci...

Which is better? Buying a standalone analytics tool or having the same functions already pre-installed in an existing application - one that is designed to do other things beyond analytics? FutureCIO speaks to Jeremy Sim, Vice President, Head Of Channels & Alliances, APAC at Qlik to get his perspective on the topic of standalone vs embedded analytics.

Erich Gerber, SVP EMEA & APJ TIBCO, joins Podchats for FutureCIO to talk about sustainable innovation and how the CIO can help drive this initiative across the enterprise.

IoT in the workplace. There is renewed interest around it as organisations look to implement return-to-work policies and processes. But what exactly would IoT bring to the organisation? How do you ensure that IoT does not violate personal privacy?  In this episode of FutureIoT, we speak to Justin Chiah, senior director, South East Asia, Taiwan and Hong Kong/Macau at Aruba Networks for his views on...

The use of the low-code development platform is driven by factors, including the rapid increase in the need for digitization and a strong ecosystem developed for Agile and DevOps practices, elimination of gaps in the required IT skills, and increasing need for rapid customization and scalability. FutureCIO speaks to Leonard Tan, Singapore country manager for OutSystems, to better understand the te...

FutureCIO’s The Very Best CIOs of Asia in 2020 series profiles some of the region’s most successful chief information officers to undercover what makes them tick, including challenges they faced in the course of their illustrious career, achievements they are most proud of, challenges as well learnings, and sage advice they would like to impart for future generations of Chief Information Officers....

FutureCIO spoke to Matt Young, senior vice president & head of Asia Pacific and Japan, and Jeff Smith, vice president of systems engineering, APJ, Nutanix to discuss the value proposition of hyperconvergence in a mixed world on-prem infrastructure and multi-cloud. 

FutureCIO invited Wee Tee Lim , regional sales director at LivePerson , to a podchat session to understand how advances around conversational analytics may finally help stop the frustrations caused when two parties in a conversational are talking but nobody is listening.

But as finance undergoes its own transformation and adopt technologies like cloud, automation, machine learning, and collaboration because of WFH, we picked some of the most raised questions by finance executives we’ve met at roundtable discussions in 2019 and asked Terry Smagh , senior vice president & general manager, Asia Pacific & Japan at BlackLine , for his perspective on the changes...