What you need to know about the Singapore Cybersecurity Bill, 2018
Singapore’s 2018 Cybersecurity Bill set duties, penalties and licensing for critical information infrastructure owners. What it required and how it was amended since.
iPhone Security Flaw 2010: Using a PIN Won’t Help You, Researcher Warned
In May 2010 a researcher reported that a four-digit PIN did not protect data on the iPhone 3GS from someone with physical access, a concern for business users.
Snapshot: The state of digital transformation in over 100 companies, Zscaler’s 2018 survey
In 2018 Zscaler reached out to 111 companies in Singapore and Hong Kong on digital transformation, cloud and Office 365. Here are the survey’s main findings.
What’s a workforce marketplace? How work will get done in the future, per Accenture’s 2017 vision
Accenture’s Technology Vision 2017 named the workforce marketplace as a major trend, citing Automattic and freelance platforms. A look at its claims and findings.
BYO collaborative tool: why VoIP desk phones were losing their place in 2015
In 2015, analysts and Oracle argued that converged unified communications suites, WebRTC and cloud delivery would replace desk phones and fragmented collaboration tools.
Replace your NAS with cloud storage: the eight key requirements Panzura set out in 2015
In 2015 Panzura chief executive Randy Chou listed eight requirements for cloud storage to replace NAS filers, from local caching to locking; here is the list.
The Seagate and Hikvision legacy: designing the world’s first surveillance drive
How Seagate and Hikvision worked together from 2005 on a hard drive built for surveillance, leading to the 2006 SV35 and later SkyHawk drives, as described in 2015.
Asia-Pacific security landscape: old and new threats side by side
How Asia-Pacific security threats mixed long-standing risks with newer cyber-insecurity around 2012, based on regional policy research from Japan and CSIS.
Should You Fear the Reaper (IoTroop) Botnet?
In October 2017 Check Point and Qihoo 360 Netlab warned of Reaper, also called IoTroop, an IoT botnet that exploits device flaws rather than default passwords.
IoT, 5G and the significance of fiber: CommScope’s 2018 case for fibre-heavy networks
In 2018 CommScope argued that 5G and IoT, with Gartner’s forecast of 20 billion connected devices by 2020, would need far more fibre, edge sites and converged networks.