Among the countries in SE Asia, consumers in Malaysia (72%) strongly favored the SMEs’ adoption of digital payment systems, followed by Singapore (68%) and the Philippines (68%).
The Sophos survey showed that 95 % of Philippine companies agree their biggest security challenge in the next 24 months will be the awareness and education of employees and leadership.
As Covid-19 increasingly drives work and leisure activities towards online platforms, Asean organizations predict that the one cybersecurity trend businesses need to pay attention to the most in 2022 will be for cyberattacks to affect personal safety.
A new research has found more than half of Asia Pacific office workers (59 percent) don’t believe using their work email for personal activity is a security risk to their employer.
Cybersecurity solutions provider Fortinet recently published a report revealing that a large number of companies who are already implementing zero trust security strategies are still struggling to monitor their users’ post-authentication or are unable to completely deploy core zero-trust capabilities at all.
Department of Finance (DOF) secretary Carlos Dominguez III has directed the country’s main revenue-generating agencies — the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) — to fortify their respective systems against hacking and other cyber threats as he expressed concern over the increasing number of scams perpetrated online against financial consumers.