The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region, including countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia, is the fastest-growing digital market in the world. Mobile applications have become increasingly integrated into daily life in terms of financial transactions, eCommerce, healthcare avenues, and service deliveries. That being said, Southeast Asian countries are witnessing a high surge in cybersecurity attacks on mobile applications.

The software development landscape moves quickly. As organizations seek to innovate at increasing speed, developers find ways to develop and deploy digital apps faster. More than 500 million cloud-native digital apps and services are being deployed this year–the same number of apps developed over the last 40 years! Against this backdrop, ensuring software code security and quality has become more critical–and challenging.

Digital transformation isn’t only for the good guys. Adversaries are undergoing their own digital transformation to exploit modern IT infrastructures — a trend we’re seeing play out in real time as they increasingly adapt their knowledge and tradecraft to exploit cloud environments. According to the CrowdStrike 2023 Global Threat Report, observed cloud exploitation cases grew by 95% over the previous year.

Today we are very pleased to share that Netskope has once again been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge (SSE). Gartner placed Netskope highest in ability to execute and furthest in vision. SSE successfully modernizes technology architecture by converging Web Proxy (SWG), ZTNA, CASB, and DLP into one, powerful, high-performing solution—effectively achieving business-level technology imperatives such as consolidation, efficiency, and optimization.

A little bit of background for those not familiar with chfn… “chfn (change finger) is used to change your finger information. This information is stored in the /etc/passwd file and is displayed by the finger program.

Anti-money laundering (AML) compliance in the mobile money industry has become increasingly important in 2023. With the rise of mobile money transactions, regulatory bodies are ramping up efforts to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. In this infographic, we explore the technology involved in AML screening, the importance of AML compliance in the industry, and best practices for financial institutions.

Cybersecurity threats are constantly evolving, and organisations need to stay ahead of these threats. This is to protect their data and systems. Data breaches cost the UK an average of £2.9 million per breach, 82% of breaches involving the human element. Moreover, those factors alone are usually enough to convince people that cybersecurity awareness needs improving and training to mitigate this. One way they can do this is by providing employees with cybersecurity awareness and training.