MDEC Announces Glow Aspirasi To Fortify Sharing Economy And Support For Digital Freelancers
Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), Malaysia’s lead digital economy agency, today announced the Global Online Workforce (GLOW) Aspirasi programme for 2022, an initiative to continue supporting Malaysians to become competitive digital freelancers on a global platform. GLOW Aspirasi is a distinct programme that echoes GLOW, the main programme that was introduced in 2016, and focuses on providing intensive training and mentoring...
ShopBack Selects AU10TIX’s AI Technology to Securely and Rapidly Verify Shoppers’ Identity
ShopBack, Asia-Pacific’s leading shopping and rewards platform, announced today that it has selected AU10TIX, a leading global provider of fully automated identity verification technology, to further enhance the company’s KYC (Know Your Customer) and customer onboarding process for its new ShopBack PayLater feature. As the entry point for over 30 million shoppers across the Asia-Pacific, ShopBack aims to be the last checkout...
Cybersecurity Remains Key To Digital Transformation And Adoption In Malaysia Smes, Says Kaspersky
The Malaysian government introduced Malaysia Digital as the new national strategic initiative to encourage and attract companies, talents, and investments in the country. One of the key focus of Malaysia Digital is digitalising small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Kaspersky’s latest research on digital payments showed that among the countries in Southeast Asia, consumers in Malaysia (72%) strongly favoured the SME’s adoption of...
Why We Should Use Zero Trust Network Access For Remote Working
One of the biggest shifts in the workplace as a result of the pandemic is the trend of remote working. While some companies used to offer the ability to work from home as a benefit, it has now become the norm for most businesses. According to a survey by the Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF), 61.7% of companies want to continue with a hybrid work arrangement – meaning they have the flexibility to work from home or anywhere they...
AV-TEST Finds Kaspersky Security Solutions For Business Deliver 100% Ransomware Protection
AV-TEST, the independent IT security institute, has recognized Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business and Kaspersky Small Office Security as standouts in its Advanced Threat Protection test for ransomware protection. The assessment found that both Kaspersky business solutions were capable of successfully defending against ransomware in 10 real-life scenarios. Ransomware attacks are on the rise. While Kaspersky research found that...
Sophos Announces Sophos X-Ops
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today announced Sophos X-Ops, a new cross-operational unit linking SophosLabs, Sophos SecOps and Sophos AI, three established teams of cybersecurity experts at Sophos, to help organizations better defend against constantly changing and increasingly complex cyberattacks. Sophos X-Ops leverages the predictive, real-time, real-world, and deeply researched threat intelligence from...
MDEC Calls for Partnerships for the Program Perdagangan Digital Keluarga Malaysia (DE Dagang)
Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), Malaysia’s lead digital economy agency under the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia (K-KOMM) today initiated a call for partnership with e-commerce platform providers and ecosystem players to be part of the Program Perdagangan Digital Keluarga Malaysia (DE Dagang). DE Dagang is the continuation of previous campaigns namely the Go-eCommerce Onboarding campaign and Shop...
82% of Malaysian Organizations Concerned about Growing Attack Surface
Trend Micro Incorporated, the leader in cloud security, announced the findings of its latest Global Risk Study 2022, which revealed that 82% of organizations in Malaysia are concerned about their growing attack surface. In light of this, Trend Micro introduced Trend Micro One – a unified cybersecurity platform aimed to enhance security capabilities of businesses today for the future. According to the study’s findings from over 6,000...
BNPL Player is Transforming Payments with a Difference
Ablr, a fintech company that provides Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) service, is now live in Malaysia. Taking on the goal of transforming the payments landscape through BNPL, Ablr provides a unique proposition to the country’s growing BNPL scene by integrating the most flexible plans to date and presenting a different approach by embedding ethical financing through product and services geared towards self and family improvement,...
2022 Prime Day Was The Biggest Prime Day Event for Amazon’s Selling Partners
Prime Day 2022 was the biggest Prime Day event for Amazon’s selling partners globally and in Malaysia, most of whom are small and medium-sized businesses, whose sales in Amazon outpaced Amazon’s global retail business over the same period. Globally, Prime members purchased more than 300 million worldwide—making this year’s event the biggest Prime Day in Amazon’s history. Prime members worldwide purchased 100,000 items per minute...
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