A new report from cybersecurity firm Sophos has found that 94% of respondents in cybersecurity and IT roles in the Philippines are impacted by burnout and fatigue, the highest among the markets surveyed.
China has denied allegations that Chinese hackers attempted to breach the email systems and internal websites of key government agencies in the Philippines.
AI-powered attacks are emerging as the most serious while phishing attacks are widely considered to be increasing the fastest, according to the report.
The Philippines, however, still topped the ranking in Southeast Asia, with the country logging the most attacks in the region with 48% of Kaspersky users attacked by Web-borne threats.
Bohol representative Kristine Alexie Besas Tutor also called on the government to train more cybersecurity professionals, noting that the country only has around 200 cybersecurity experts.
The country’s cybersecurity experts had successfully thwarted hacking attacks against a Philippine government website, an official of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) reported on Saturday, Feb. 3.
The memorandum of agreement between the two companies, signed last January30, will see the integration of Gogolook’s Whoscall software into GoTyme’s operations.
The NCC Group, which occupies the entire 37th floor of the posh Seven Neo building at the middle of Bonifacio Global City in Taguig City, currently employs 70 local workers but plans to hike the headcount to 500.
Trend Micro is anticipating a surge in sophisticated cyberattacks through 2024, driven by the widespread availability and improved quality of Gen AI, coupled with the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs).
So-called “alert fatigue” or too many cybersecurity alerts is also a significant challenge, with more than 50% of surveyed enterprises facing an average of 221 incidents per day.
