Network security consists of the policies, processes and practices adopted to prevent, detect and monitor unauthorized access, misuse, modification, or...

Dave McCarthy IDC research vice president, Dave McCarthy says the cloud is no longer considered a location but rather an...

Gartner says application modernisation services address the migration of legacy to new applications or platforms, including the integration of new...

Forrester's Top Cybersecurity Threats in 2023 lists among other things the potential to weaponize artificial intelligence variants like Generative AI...

Emily Weiss “Against a backdrop of unrelenting social and economic pressures, marketing leaders look toward a future where smarter marketing...

Digital transformation is easy to say, arguably hard to implement and failures continue to occur even as we learn from...

The COVID-19 crisis continues to have a significant impact on individuals, society, businesses and the wider economy across the globe....

ResearchAndMarkets forecasts that the embedded finance industry in the region is expected to grow by 39.7% on an annual basis...

CISOs and security professionals are in an unenviable position: they deal with relentless cyberattacks from across an expanding attack surface,...

A survey of 1,200 large organisations representing US$125.2 billion in annual cybersecurity spending, with US$19 billion spent in Asia Pacific,...

Cisco's latest Cybersecurity Readiness Index says globally only 15% have a mature level of preparedness to handle security risks. The...

The authors of the paper, Thinking Outside-the-Box for Cyber Defense: Introducing an Innovation Framework for the 21st Century, noted that...

Gartner predicts that global end-user spending on public cloud services will grow to US$591.8 billion in 2023, a 20.7% growth...

Gartner says businesses are challenged to bring value and innovation wherever their customers are. For CIOs and infrastructure and operations...

The Harvard Business Review (HBR) paper, Balancing Cloud Costs and Business Goals with FinOps, acknowledges that cloud computing has become...

Gartner predicts that the software market will reach US$1 billion by 2025 indicating that demand for software will continue. Among...

We are all familiar with the concepts of risks and uncertainty. Risk is a quantifiable element of doing business, whereas...

Years back, one of my KPIs as country head was to build a partner network in the Philippines. At the...

A database is a collection of structured information, or data, typically stored electronically in a computer system. A data architecture...

The explosion in cloud computing adoption, including computing, storage, and connectivity, has led to some finance leaders asking what we...

Gartner says the endlessly expanding digital footprint of modern organisations is introducing new security challenges. The pandemic response has accelerated...

2023 has ushered in a unique set of challenges compared to prior years as companies are continuing their paths towards...

The IBM Institute of Business Value report, 2023 Global Outlook for Banking and Financial Markets, paints three themes facing banks...

World Backup Day just whisked by with little fanfare. And that is not surprising. Compared to topics like ChatGPT, datafication,...

The IDC Cloud Pulse 2Q22 Survey noted that data sovereignty and industry compliance have factored highly in discussions about the...

"How do you like your eggs?" Country Roads Magazine has 100 ways for cooking an egg. For something as simple...

One of the factors that led to the widespread adoption of the iPhone during its early days was the simplicity...

A partnership arises when two or more parties agree to collaborate towards a common goal. According to CompTIA, the best...

Dave McCrory coined the term data gravity back in 2010 using the metaphor of gravity to explain the phenomenon of...

In 2020, threat actors focused their efforts on Covid-19-related threats, ranging from email threats, and business email compromise, to social...

Citing self-reported company data, Statista revealed that in 2021 female employees makeup between 45% (Amazon), 37% (Facebook), 34% (Apple), 33%...

This is the fourth edition of the Global Women in PR (GWPR) Annual Index reveals that progress towards equality continues...

At Future Enterprises Awards 2022, Maria Beatriz “Abet” Adversalo took the coveted CIO of the Year award in recognition of...

In a prior PodChats for FutureCISO dialogue with Mel Migriño, chairman and president of the Women in Security Alliance Philippines,...

According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2022, it will take 132 years to close the global...

Elevators and escalators are mechanical machineries for moving people built as far back as 1889 and 1892 respectively. They are...

Mordor Intelligence forecasts Indonesia’s oil and gas market to see a CAGR of more than 5% during the forecast period,...

The Center for Sustainable Systems defines green information technology (green IT) as an approach to reduce the environmental impacts associated...

28 January 2023 is Data Privacy Day – “an international effort to create awareness about the importance of respective privacy,...

“Rewarding and challenging” is how the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) describes a career in human resources. According to...

Futurist Bernard Marr sees a turbulent 2023 for global markets adding that communications service providers (CSPs) will not be insulated...

The Q3 2022 Data Centre Report by Knight Frank reveals an increasing trend towards greater localisation of data centre facilities....

A Cybersecurity Ventures report, Women in Cybersecurity 2022, estimates that women held about 25% of cybersecurity roles globally, up from...

People remain one of the most important assets for many organisations – big and small. The Great Resignation is a...

IDC has predicted that the idea of digital sovereignty will gain greater traction in the coming years. In Europe, 2022...

2022 was a colourful year for Asia-Pacific (APAC) with the continuing pandemic, the Ukraine-Russia war, and the strain on the...

On 19 January 2023, Nutanix hosted a media briefing on the topic of “Patchwork IT Tearing at the Seams: Three...

Deloitte opines that a new global economic order seems imminent in 2023. The ripple effects from a more fragile and...

“In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity” Albert Einstein In times of recession, the often approach taken is...

Gartner says the role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is growing, and the scope of digital business intensifies....

Indeed.com says a people manager is a leader who cares about every employee's growth and well-being and manages people effectively....

FutureCIO has covered data protection for some time now. A 2023 Gartner prediction cautions that through 2025, powerhouse cloud ecosystems...

For decades, many businesses in Asia were supported on the bedrock of proprietary software and closed system architectures. The pandemic...

The chief technology officer, also known as a chief technical officer or chief technologist, is an executive-level position focused on...

FutureCIO has covered data protection for some time now. A 2023 Gartner prediction cautions that through 2025, powerhouse cloud ecosystems...

We’re drowning in data these days. And the data deluge is not going to stop anytime soon. Our thirst for...

It can be argued that COVID-19 was the catalyst for even faster adoption of technology-led innovation (the Economist even suggests...

However we want to look at it, every software application we use today runs off from some computing device –...

In 2017, Olam Group redefined its purpose to ‘Re-imagining global agriculture and food systems’. Charged with leading and executing this...

The impact of the pandemic and the rapid acceleration of digital initiatives in a short time forced organisations to control...

FutureCIO has covered data protection for some time now. In 2020, Gartner predicted that by 2023 65% of the world’s...

Mordor Intelligence forecasts data centre transformation to reach US$15.45 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 12.88% during the...

Zuellig Pharma calls itself a digital-first integrated healthcare services provider. But it wasn’t born digital by any stretch of the...

IDC says Asia/Pacific organisations continue to refine hybrid working practices and organisational culture to accommodate new ways of working that...

The workplace of the digital economy can be described as the convergence of old practices with new technologies, with the...

The recipient of the CIO of the Year award at the IDC Future Enterprise Awards 2022 for Singapore, Jimmy Ng,...

Ransomware remains one of the more dreaded cyber threats of the decade. But for a ransomware attack to be initiated,...

A persistent pandemic around the world and global geopolitical conflicts continue to dominate headlines. Navigating uncertainties and managing supply chain...

The Forrester 2021 State of Enterprise Breaches report revealed that in the past 12 months, organisations were breached an average...

According to Forrester, in 2022 organisations saw the extent to which systemic risks, including climate change, supply chain, and political...

Gartner says customer demand and buying behaviours continue to fluctuate unpredictably amid pandemic waves, supply chain disruption, inflationary price increases...

The Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report warns that downtime costs and consequences are worsening as industry efforts to curb...

Damien Green Damien Green, president and CEO of Manulife Asia, wants the insurer to become the digital customer leader in...

It is that time of the year when prognosticators come out of the woodwork to provide some guidance in terms...

The prevalence and severity of mobile-related compromises continues to escalate in 2022. Perhaps even more interesting is that small and...

According to Check Point Research, global attacks increased by 28%in the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same period...

First came automation – the realisation that some aspects of workflow can be done by machines. Next came the integration...

Central to the success of any environmental, social and governance (ESG) commitment is data. Any organisation that chooses to commit...

We’ve had two years of experience dealing with unrelenting uncertainties. Some have come out stronger, others not so much. As...

The 2021 ISACA-Frost & Sullivan Survey: The Singapore Cybersecurity Landscape, revealed that 63% of respondent organisations were adopting the cloud...

Unlocking transformational business performance improvement requires securely employing software and data at scale—and with speed—across the enterprise IT landscape. We...

According to Reader’s Digest, 123456 is the most common password in use today, ahead of 123456789 and 1234567890. It is...

With Asia on the cusp of economic recovery following over two years of volatility arising from multiple crises seemingly contriving...

Most boards now regard cybersecurity as a business risk rather than solely a technical IT problem, according to a recent...

According to Productiv’s 2021 report, State of SaaS Sprawl, enterprises have on average 254 apps in their app portfolio. The...

Gartner defines robotic process automation (RPA) as a productivity tool that allows a user to configure one or more scripts...

The Australian Government’s Annual Cyber Threat Report 2022 reported that losses from business compromised email (BEC) scams are up 21%...

Encryption is meant to protect information so that when it falls into the wrong hands, it is unusable. But what...

Enterprises are accelerating their adoption of digitalisation and agile methodologies, dramatically changing their risk profiles. According to Gartner, many organisations...

Futurist, Bernard Marr, writes that businesses have faced huge challenges and undergone an ‘incredible amount of change’ over the past...

Deloitte Hong Kong Digital Leader Allen Wong believes that the business landscape has changed since the onset of the pandemic...

Every business wants to climb out of the crises that we’ve been mired in since 2020. For many business leaders,...

Activities like video conferencing, mobile work, and cloud computing – all of these have been around well before the pandemic....

One of the defining characteristics of the digital economy is our increased dependence on third-party organisations. Whether we are manufacturers,...

Al Gillen "Developers and DevOps professionals continue to be in the hot seat as their organizations or their customers demand...

Enterprises continue to mature in the art of acquiring data whether this is structured or unstructured. But having data alone...

Vidhya Balasubramanian “Five years ago, an ESG program was a nice-to-have. Now it’s a business imperative as investors, employees and...

An Application Programming Interface (API) is the connective tissue of the digital ecosystem, It allows software applications to interact with...

The 2021 Gartner CEO Survey: The Year of Rebuilding revealed that social responsibility and ESG mentions in top business priorities...

For most of our online lives, our accounts are protected by a username and password. These protect the data stored...

This October 2022 is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. What started as a US initiative to create awareness about safe practices online...

The InfoSec Institute estimates there is a worldwide staffing shortage of nearly three million in the ranks of cybersecurity professionals,...

Hybrid and remote work have amplified the impact of distributed and complex IT environments. Running workloads and applications across both...

Marianne Lake In 2016 during its Investor Day event, then J.P. Morgan CFO, Marianne Lake commented that the firm is...

“In most enterprises, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of potential sustainability ideas and projects that IT could support. The...

Ernesto Garbarino Sometime in 2020, enterprise architect, technologist and author, Ernesto Garbarino, posed the question: Is VMware still relevant in...

If disruption was the word of the times for much of 2020 to 2021, modernisation was the strategy that underpinned...

The chief technology officer (CTO) is the architect of an organisation’s technology-led engagement strategy. Andrew Weaver, co-founder and CEO of...

Forrester defines digital transformation as the journey of moving to a digital-first business model with the speed and nimbleness to...

Gina Smith Gina Smith, a research manager for DevOps in Asia/Pacific with IDC explains that with the COVID-19 pandemic going...

Backdrop: Proofpoint’s The Human Factor 2022 report reveals that more than 20 million messages attempted to deliver malware linked to...

Cybersecurity is turning into a social phenomenon. Investor interest, public pressure, employee demands, and governmental regulations are strengthening the incentives...

Backdrop: During a Huawei media roundtable coinciding with the vendor’s Intelligent Finance Summit 2022 event, Ryan Ding, president of the...

The Forrester State of Application Security 2022 report noted that applications are the top cause of external breaches. Software supply...

Back in February 2012, Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook (now Meta), stated “there is a huge need and a huge...

The world is experiencing a level of disruption and business risk not seen in generations. Some companies freeze and fail,...

If someone comes to you and declares cloud migration to be as easy as A, B and C, someone wants...

Data, data everywhere. Not a drop of insight. At times this rings true. Organisations have mastered the art of capturing...

IDC is forecasting Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) spending on AI systems to rise from US$17.6 billion in 2022 to around US$32...

Organisations are migrating to the cloud to improve efficiencies and scale with greater digital transformation. Cloud plans and adoption have...

Gartner defines Security Service Edge (SSE) as the convergence of network security services delivered from a purpose-built cloud platform. As...

Back in 1996, a Microsoft employee developed peer-to-peer (also referred to as point-to-point) tunnelling protocol (PPTP) to provide a more...

Brent Ellis, a senior analyst for Forrester, defines data resilience as a combination of data durability (ensuring the data is...

Whether for personal use or accessing your corporate network, authentication and authorisation are two critical concepts in access control. At...

Donald Feinberg “Data has become the most important asset of any organisation and data and analytics are more critical than...

Merriam-Webster defines identity as “the qualities, beliefs, etc., that make a particular person or group different from others.” These qualities...

The ResearchAndMarkets Global Sheconomy Research Report 2022: Transformational Growth Due to Increasing Economic Power of Women predicts the increasing the...

Gartner defines the chief technology officer as having overall responsibility for managing the physical and personnel technology infrastructure including technology...

Despite all the advances in technology and the innovations it has enabled, enterprises remain vulnerable to unpredictable forces. It’s hard...

* Editor's note: This article is co-produced by Sukhpreet Kaur The global energy ecosystem is currently undergoing a massive transformation, and...

Depending on who you talk to some would say that the pandemic is bad for the SHEconomy. On the one...

A few years back, I had a conversation with the CIO of an insurance company in Hong Kong. This was...

Discussions around enterprise blockchain often lead to cryptocurrency, NFT and more recently metaverse. But what about in the real world...

It is July 2022. Currently, most businesses understand the importance of data. A few have been truly transformed by it...

Michael Araneta * Editor's note: This article is co-produced by Sukhpreet Kaur Michael Araneta, AVP, IDC Financial Insights Asia/Pacific commented...

The ongoing complexity of IT systems, along with evolving regulations are the major challenges faced by IT security professionals. IDC...

Back in 2020, DigiPlex published, Will your IT withstand a sustainability review, which acknowledged that digitalisation has increased energy consumption....

SHEconomy founder and author, Benja Stig Fagerland, says gender equality is not a women’s issue but a business one. She...

One of the innovations of the internet is the introduction of software robots or bots that allow repetitive tasks to...

Backdrop: Cyber threats have taken yet another twisted turn with the police and the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA)'s...

“There is a growing desire to create computer systems that can communicate effectively to collaborate with humans on complex, open-ended...

Making supply chain investments, such as factory capacity and inventory, are made from historical performance rather than an understanding of...

* Editor's note: This article is co-produced by Sukhpreet Kaur How do we communicate today? “According to research, face-to-face communication is...

The idea of automation and robotics may have their roots when the Greek philosopher Aristotle envisioned a world where the...

Backdrop: With the launch of HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise, HPE looks to modernise the private cloud experience with...

There is a growing perception that digital transformation is about moving a business’ critical applications to the cloud. By migrating...

It’s been 13 years since we were introduced to bitcoin and blockchain. Lauded as a disruptive technology for its transparency...

Depending on who is talking, opinions on evolving hybrid workplace practices and strategies will vary. Similarly, studies around what is...

The IEEE defines a robot as an autonomous machine capable of sensing its environment, carrying out computations to make decisions,...

IDC predicts that by 2024, 60% of A2000 investments in business automation will be for multimodal codeless automation platforms that...

According to theGlobalEconomy.com the average unemployment rate among seven countries in ASEAN in 2022 stood at 4.13% compared to 6.13%...

Businesses today are collecting troves of data but having massive stores of data doesn’t mean anything if an organisation is...

A Salesforce survey (of US consumers) noted that 82% of consumers expect to continue contacting customer service at pandemic-level rates,...

Years back, my manager said he supports “remote work” for those that ask for it provided they “report in their...

Geopolitical disagreements, trade tension, natural calamities – disruptions to global trade and commerce are a normal recurrence. A 2012 World...

Gartner predicts that by 2025, IT spending on public cloud computing will overtake spending on traditional IT. It added that...

According to British writer and lay theologian, Clive Staples Lewis, two heads are better than one “not because either is...

We are midway into 2022 and while we still hear of talks of a “return to normal”, I am no...

Oxford Languages define identity as the fact of being a person or thing. According to the World Bank ID4D data,...

The chief information security officer is the head of all information security operations within a company. He or she is...

For some years now, leaders will often say that “data is the new currency” and in a data-driven environment, they...

Futurist, Bernard Marr, says concepts we find in metaverse date as far back as 1838 when scientist Sir Charles Wheatstone...

“Only one Earth” is the campaign for World Environment Day (WED) 2022. The United Nations (UN) says it is a...

Source: CGS-CIMB We continue our series on the hybrid workplace at FutureCIO. This time we are joined by Carol Fong,...

Workplaces are communities built around relationships with peers. When such relationships are strong, they become sources of energy, learning and...

Trends like hybrid work and increased adoption of IoT devices have placed the network at the forefront of today's digital...

An ecosystem consists of organisations and the environment in which they interact. This is how I'd apply the definition of...

Decades ago, while working for a Japanese company, I read about the idea of lifetime employment. At the time I...

Three years since the start of the pandemic and two years of hybrid working have left workers across the organisation...

In a Forrester study commissioned by CINNOX, only 16% of all surveyed customers recently experienced interactions that exceeded their expectations....

Gartner predicts that by 2024, on-premises NaaS will be adopted by 15% of all enterprises, up from less than one...

At a recent FutureCISO Breakfast briefing, on the topic of “Looming cyberthreats in 2022 – Tipping the scale in your...

Gartner estimated that by end of 2022, 47% of all knowledge workers worldwide are expected to be working remotely, up...

* Editor's note: This article is co-produced by Sukhpreet Kaur According to Forrester, 44% of purchase influencers in Asia-Pacific consider...

CIOs have traditionally overseen the design, development, and management of IT systems for the internal use of the CIO’s company....

According to John F. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. president, the word 'crisis' in written Chinese comprises two brush strokes: one...

In my opinion, one of the most loathed activities in the annals of computing history is the use of passwords...

IDC forecasts that Worldwide IT and business services revenue to grow by 5.6% (in constant currency) in 2022, 4.2% based...

The value of the renewable energy market is set to grow from $880 billion to nearly $2 trillion by 2030....

Environmental, social, and corporate governance is an approach to evaluating the extent to which a corporation works on behalf of...

Recently I was calling my airline to inquire about expiring award miles. I approached them via three channels: through their...

First developed in the 1980s, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of detailed practices for IT activities...

The market for robotic process automation (RPA) is forecast to grow to US$22 billion in 2025 building on the growth...

The Asian Banking School prospectus for “DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION : “BANKING IS NECESSARY, BANKS ARE NOT” pulls out one of the...

Peter Firstbrook Death and taxes are said to be life’s only two certainties. As organisations continue their digital transformation journey,...

IDC says demand for public cloud services is still high and growing in Asia. China has the biggest market size...

Incident response is an organised approach to addressing and managing the aftermath of a security breach or cyberattack. It is...

Milind Govekar, distinguished vice president at Gartner, says the technological and organisational silos of application development, automation, integration, and governance...

* Editor's note: This article is co-produced by Sukhpreet Kaur For years, information security has been floating in the Top 10...

In 2022, Frost & Sullivan estimates that Asia-Pacific contributes to nearly 48.5% of the global manufacturing output. The analyst says...

February 11 is designated by United Nations as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, different from International...

* Editor's note: This article is co-produced by Sukhpreet Kaur Sustainability, digital transformation and the energy transition have accelerated significantly following...

There was a time when the focus of backup was ensuring that the business has recoverable data in the event...

The CISO is responsible for the vision, strategy, and program to ensure the protection of information assets, and technologies. As...

The global transformation of banking and payments has only accelerated over the past few years, and between web trends and...

That businesses in Asia-Pacific are adopting cloud computing technology is no longer being debated. The journey to the cloud, whether...

One of the outcomes of the pandemic is the accelerated adoption of cloud computing. But whereas cloud was first thought...

The pandemic has catapulted security once more to the top of IT and executive leadership priorities, even the Board. However,...

Infrastructure is changing as enterprises accelerate digital transformation. In a cloud-first and increasingly automated world, infrastructure, and operations (I&O) leaders...

Bolor-Erdene Battsengel is state secretary of the Ministry of Digital Development and Communications of Mongolia. At 27 she was appointed...

Respondents to the Veeam Data Protection Trends 2022 reveals a rising trend towards the use of the cloud as part...

Organisations pursuing a digital strategy will, at some point in the journey, need to address the issue of whether current,...

A McKinsey study before the COVID-19 pandemic suggested that while the idea of automating processes has been in the minds...

A September 2021 Korn Ferry survey revealed 55% of professionals believe employee turnover will only increase in 2022, with 30%...

“The digital revolution brings the immense potential to improve social and economic outcomes for women. Yet, it also poses the...

The Great Resignation, also known as the Big Quit, is an economic trend in which large numbers of employees voluntarily...

IDC says disaster recovery as a service has fundamentally transformed DR planning by significantly reducing the cost of a DR...

A global survey of IT heads in the US, China, the U.K., India and Brazil by the Institute of Electrical...

Continuing with FutureCIO’s contribution to the discussion on “Break the Bias” in celebration of International Women’s Day 2022 (8 March...

For many people in the supply chain ecosystem – from manufacturing on one end all the way to the consumer...

Jay Forte is president and founder of The Forte Factor and certified executive coach, wrote in a blog that things...

A couple of decades back, as a marketing executive for Asia, I learned that in some cultures, an invisible wall...

Transformation is not exclusively technology, even if the initiative is often tied to the term ‘digital’. It is also not...

“Since the late 1980s, dealing with uncertainty has been recognized as one of our most significant leadership challenges. But the...

According to Gartner, among the top strategic technology trends for 2022 is cybersecurity mesh, just behind the data fabric. The...

Milind Govekar, distinguished vice president at Gartner, says there is no business strategy with a cloud strategy. He adds that...

Gartner says organisations are accelerating digital transformation processes for long-term growth and profitability. It observed 53% of the organisations surveyed...

The days when computing innovation was defined by the latest innovation in hardware is not dead nor is it the...

8 February 2022 is designed as Safer Internet Day. First started as an initiative by the European Union’s SafeBorders project...

 “Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.” Andy Grove, former CEO,...

Any given project left to its own devices will likely run amok, its deadline for completion extended and therefore go...

Before cloud computing, on-premises data centres would be over-provisioned with servers, storage and switches because IT needs to anticipate peak...

Gartner noted that among the top technology trends in 2022, the adoption of cloud-native platforms will be high on the...

As business needs change, organizations must be able to deliver innovation quickly and adapt applications dynamically — reassembling capabilities from...

The Open Risk Manual defines fraud risk as unexpected financial, material, or reputational loss as the result of fraudulent activities...

The Storage Networking Industry Association defines data privacy as an area of data protection that concerns the proper handling of...

In the 29 January 2007, Esquire interview, Andy Grove, at the time, 63 and chairman of Intel, said “Privacy is...

Insurance involves the collection and processing of large amounts of data, and while regulations are evolving to curtail the potential...

In early February 2021, a Korean company was approached by what appeared to be one of their trading partners requesting...

I’ve been in tech for over 30 years and a recurring discussion I’ve had to listen to every now and...

The global packaging services market to reach $50 billion in 2022 – that’s according to the Smithers market report, The...

Better business decisions happen when the right people have access to the right data at the right time. However, Gartner...

In the Workforce of the future report, PwC’s global leader for people and organization, Carol Stubbings wrote: “We are living...

The IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021 noted that the average total cost of a data breach stood...

In 2016, Microsoft pulled the plug on Tay (short for Thinking About You) a chatbot designed to mimic the language...

Albert Einstein said, “in the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.” COVID-19 and its near-universal disruption of economies and...

Data centres account for two per cent of the world’s energy consumption, equivalent to the aviation industry. “And while big...

One of the notable characteristics of the digital economy is the ability to trade from nearly everywhere at any time....

Gartner defines an event-driven architecture (EDA) as a design paradigm in which a software component executes in response to receiving...

Tuong Nguyen Tuong H. Nguyen, senior principal analyst and a member of Gartner’s emerging technologies and trends team, has identified...

Chatbots are software that simulates conversation through voice or text or both. Since the first chatbot ELIZA, developed in the...

In Q2 2021, McKinsey surveyed supply-chain leaders to ascertain steps taken to shore up supply chains since the start of...

Gartner predicts that by 2025, at least 75% of IT organizations will face one or more attacks, as free-rein researchers...

Security consumed as a service is one of the themes for 2022, according to Gartner’s most recent prediction statements. The...

Laura Huang There was a time when decisions were made with your gut – that instinct or subconscious thought that...

Log4J is a logging library for Java. It is used to debug software during its development lifecycle and entails inserting...

Daryl Plummer “The lesson of the pandemic has been to expect the unexpected and be prepared to move in multiple...

Cloud adoption continues to accelerate in Singapore, with 63% of respondent organizations adopting cloud more during the pandemic. 29% of...

“Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a key economic sector and generator of jobs and may be considered the backbone...

The Singapore Cybersecurity Strategy 2021 announcement recognised the need for a ‘’zero-trust’’ mindset approach to protecting organisations from new technological...

The goal of resource management is to use the best combination of resources to satisfy requirements while also realizing these...

Gartner defines data governance as the specification of decision rights and an accountability framework to ensure the appropriate behaviour in...

With hybrid cloud the direction enterprises in Asia are taking, issues around security rise above the discussion as organisations mix...

Gartner’s Top 5 Priorities for HR Leaders in 2022 is now out and no surprises there that building critical skills...

The IDC perspective, Data Security, Data Protection, and Data Privacy in the Age of Cloud, noted that “as organizations in...

Across many parts of developing Asia, COVID-19 has been harsh to consumers and businesses. Extended restrictions on mobility, some lasting...

According to the EY Future Consumer Index, consumers in Southeast Asia have turned to digital channels to meet their financial...

It is said that modern insurance can trace its roots at the Greater Fire of London in 1666, and the...

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a process of authorizing data sharing or transactions between sender and receiver by providing protection...

One of the topics that have come up in FutureCIO discussions with technology, finance and business leaders in Asia is...

Cybersecurity firm IntSights has released its latest research white paper ‘Selling breaches: The Transfer of Enterprise Network Access on Criminal...

One of the outcomes of the pandemic has been the increase in cyberattacks riding on the mass work from home...

According to Gartner VP analyst, Stefan Van Der Zijden, digital transformation has made it imperative for application leaders to find...

An application programming interface (API) provides programmatic access to service functionality and data within an application or a database. It...

COP26 is the 2021 United Nations climate change conference. It has four mandates: Secure global net-zero by mid-century and keep...

As legend would have it, the original concept behind DevOps came about during a discussion between Andrew Clay and Patrick...

The good news is that security and risk management has become a board-level issue for organisations. In hindsight, this is...

A Gartner survey of 550 HR leaders in July 2021 identified Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) as a priority (35%)...

Four new trends in cloud computing are continuing to expand the breadth of cloud offerings and capabilities, accelerating growth across...

By 2022, IDC predicts that 75% of enterprises will embed intelligent automation into technology and process development, using AI-based software...

Into the final quarter of 2021 and we continue to read of cyberattacks against nations, enterprises and individuals. The State...

Is WFH going to change the way I secure my IT? The McKinsey report, The future of work after COVID-19,...

Even before the pandemic, digital transformation was already in the agenda for many organisations. From what we understand, the imperative...

Callsign commercial director – Asia Pacific, Frank Tan noted that historically organisations rely on usernames and passwords to authenticate users....

As the world pivots and adjusts to a pandemic environment, the disruption that has impacted business has driven many organisations...

Gartner predicts that by 2021, over 75% of midsize and large organisations will have adopted a multi-cloud and/or hybrid IT...

I have been on conference calls with clients, colleagues, attended virtual discussions and seminars online. One thing is clear, the...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a staple of many businesses in Asia, particularly mid to large enterprises. There are also...

Sophos Research reported how Cring ransomware exploited a 11-year-old Adobe ColdFusion software to launch advanced attack

CIOs need to realise that data management involves not just technology, but people and processes. CIOs must focus on their...

To argue that the UN breach of April 2021 is an old story is to ignore that the hack occured...

50% of in-branch transactions will be initiated as pre-staged transactions or appointments for specialists that start on digital platforms and...

STaaS enables productivity gains that allow budget dollars to be repurposed towards new innovation and growth initiatives that bring IT...

The CISO’s top priority might not be fully aligned to the CIO, because some of the security initiatives or security...

Moving ERP in the cloud can change the way businesses work towards a better, efficient, and highly productive and agile...

Tara Winters, head of global managed services at FIS, for her take on drivers of cloud considerations among capital market...

Storage-as-a-service allows them to replace their capital expenditure, improve allocation and improve their decision-making process as part of the process

Downtime can have a serious impact on customer trust and by extension the brand and reputation of the firm.

FutureCIO asked security architect Clement Lee, from Check Point Software Technologies, Siupan Chan, sales engineering manager with Sophos, and the...

One of the really important skill sets for a CISO is to be able to reach into the board where...

From a CIO’s perspective, process automation including RPA has enabled the organisation to remain competitive by helping reduce cost, improve...

Privacy concerns are no longer limited to government surveillance and public figures’ private lives – thanks to social media and...

To address the OT-IT security problem is to recognise the problem at the onset: there is a wall dividing IT...

Companies that adopted a solid cloud strategy both for IT management tools and business software were far less affected by...

Paddy Tan, managing partner at BlackStorm Consulting, shares his opinion and analysis on the startup landscape in Asia and what...

With the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a big shift in customer behaviour in terms of the fear of missing out,...

Data scientists as no longer the backroom geeks content at hiding behind their desks. They want to be in the...

If today, organizations are struggling to secure on-premises, private clouds or public clouds as separate infrastructure setups, what more will...

Mainframe technology powers many of the modern applications we take for granted today. ASG's Praveen Kumar answers the puzzle of...

A platform that is powered by AI creates an intent-enabled action by the system and use that information to support...

Capgemini's Elias Ghanem lists out the challenges and opportunities for wealth management firms to address the needs of digital-savvy clients.

The original Agile Manifesto may have kickstarted the agile movement 20 years ago but Agile 2 clears the air for...

Up to 50% of ERP projects fail the first time around. FutureCIO spoke to executives from three ERP solutions providers...

Tagit chief executive officer, Sandeep Bagaria, says in the post-COVID-19 era banks have come out with strong balance sheets and...

Cybercriminals are now turning to data theft as a primary objective to ensure their ransom demands are met, otherwise, they...

To boost cybersecurity posture, we need to look at cyber resiliency, which involves not just the technical aspect of it...

As enterprises embed more IoT into front and backend processes, security needs to be revisited taking into consideration IoT digital...

IDC says worldwide enterprise external OEM storage systems market revenue increased 1.7% during the first quarter of 2021.

A study by Cisco revealed just how important privacy is to the continuing growth of economies, including the COVID-19 pandemic...

When it comes to communication, priority is now placed on the desired experience as opposed to what technology or even...

Some time back Gartner declared that "The Data Centre is (Almost) Dead". Gartner was clear that the days of the...

The way passwords are implemented and used today presents a challenge to making integrity, security, and usability possible.

PayPal's SRE head, Wes Hummel, says operations folks will often put their fingers in the dam when there's a leak;...

5 June 2021 is World Environment Day. Created in 1972 by the United Nations Assembly as a global platform for raising...

How can businesses do better to achieve their data-driven initiatives and improve efficiency and enhance customer relationships?

Jonathan Jackson says cyber resilience as an organisation's ability to respond to, prepare for and recover from a cyber event,...

Data protection has become complex and partly points to the diversity in the types of tools that organisations use to...

With zero trust we are now able to apply context to security decision-making processes that we’ve not been able to...

COVID-19 is a positive catalyst for the modernisation of the insurance industry, helping incumbent insurers find the impetus to modernise...

ABI Research says the success of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack exposed wilful ignorance to take cybersecurity seriously