Palo Alto Networks Bolsters Its Cloud Native Security Offerings With Out-of-Band WAAS
Over the last two years, organizations have expanded their use of cloud environments by more than 25%. Many are now struggling to manage the technical complexity of cloud migration, including the ability to secure their applications across the entire application development lifecycle. Palo Alto Networks, a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Workload Security, Q1 2022, has announced the addition of Out-of-Band Web Application...
60 Percent Employees In Malaysia Would Prefer Flexibility Over A Four-Day Work Week
As the idea of a four-day work week continues to gain traction across Southeast Asia, new Qualtrics research reveals 60% of full-time employees in the region would prefer the flexibility to work whenever they want over one less day at work (37%). For workers in Malaysia, the preference for flexibility was slightly greater, with 62% opting for it over a shorter work week (48%). Flexibility is also a bigger driver of retention...
Malaysian Children Likes to Use YouTube the Most
New data from Kaspersky shows that Malaysian children are big consumer of video content. As of 1 March, this year, YouTube app on Android top the chart with 35.65%. WhatsApp ranked the second with 16.21%, followed by TikTok with 12.32%. Video content remains Malaysian children favorite, as per the data shows for the top three Android apps frequently used by them, with YT Kids, a special app for children, at 6.08%. Kaspersky...
Intel Appoints Alexis Crowell as Asia Territory Leader
Intel Corporation has appointed Alexis Crowell as Managing Director for the Asia Territory, which includes Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Alexis is also a Vice President in Intel’s Sales, Marketing and Communications Group. Based in Singapore, Crowell will look to build on Intel’s strong foundation in the region, by helping customers in their digital transformation journey and amongst other initiatives, pushing for...
Research Reveals Gen Z’s Priorities As Enterprise, Environment And Equality
TEAM LEWIS Foundation has released further research from its global survey conducted with HeForShe, UN Women’s solidarity movement engaging men and boys in support of gender equality and empowerment of women. The global study revealed that Gen Z prioritises gender equality alongside enterprise and environmental issues more than any other age group. The study revealed that gender equality is seen as the 4th most pressing societal...
EPSON Partners With WWF To Scale Up Marine Restoration Impact And Achieve A Low Carbon Future
Epson Southeast Asia has announced its partnership with World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), as part of Epson’s commitment to co-create sustainable solutions and empower communities. The new partnership seeks to scale marine conservation impact and climate solutions across Southeast Asia by working with youths, citizen scientists, as well as businesses and local communities. “Sustainability has been and will continue to be a core...
Regional Insurtech Firm Igloo Promotes Raunak Mehta to Co-Founder & CEO to Drive Southeast Asia Expansion
Regional insurtech firm, Igloo, has announced the promotion of Raunak Mehta, previously Chief Commercial Officer as its new Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He will work alongside co-founder of Igloo, Wei Zhu, who is on the company’s board of directors. Raunak has extensive experience in the e-commerce and technology space, having held leadership roles at Asia’s biggest e-commerce brands Flipkart and Zalora. Since...
A Third Of Workers In Southeast Asia Would Look For A New Job If Forced Back To The Office Full Time
As organizations across Southeast Asia continue to consider, adopt, and refine hybrid work models, new research from Qualtrics reveals a third of employees (34 per cent) would look for a new job if forced back to office full-time. With hybrid now the clear preferred way of working in the region, the most popular arrangement among employees is three days remote / two days in the office. At a time when local employers are...
43% of Businesses Don’t Protect Their Full Iot Suite
A recent Kaspersky report, “Pushing the limits: How to address specific cybersecurity demands and protect IoT”, revealed that in two-in-five businesses (43%), some parts of their IoT infrastructure are yet to have any protection. Meanwhile, the main barrier for implementation of many businesses’ IoT projects is the risk of cybersecurity breaches and data compromises. According to IoT Analytics, the global number of connected IoT...
VIS Global and Uniphore Partner to Augment AI for the CX Industry in APAC including Malaysia
VIS Global, a leader in enterprise communication and customer experience (CX) management solutions today announced it has entered into a multi-country strategic partnership with Uniphore, the leader in Conversational Automation. Through this partnership, VIS Global will be better positioned to provide Asia Pacific organizations with a comprehensive communication and CX management portfolio that offers end-to-end, customizable...
