Opinion stories
Breaches are rising as AI tools widen access inside firms, leaving security teams struggling to spot data flows that Zero Trust was built to limit.
Nearly 40% of firms have delayed growth plans as volatile power costs and supply fears squeeze investment across Australia and New Zealand.
Unredacted archive copies can expose personal data long after extraction, increasing compliance risk for firms using AI and high-volume document workflows.
Weak governance leaves firms exposed to compliance risk, duplicate records and faulty decisions as data volumes keep rising across departments.
The new feature could cut Spark job runtimes by up to 4x, easing cloud bills for firms running data-heavy AI and analytics workloads.
Asian manufacturers are increasingly tying AI investment to less downtime, lower energy bills and higher output rather than office productivity gains.
Fast-moving travel and hospitality brands risk missed bookings unless they unify customer data in real time across marketing, care and operations.
Poor data quality is driving costly errors, weaker customer service and missed revenue unless organisations keep records accurate and current.
Discreet packaging, clearer product information and easier repeat ordering are helping buyers of continence products avoid embarrassment and confusion.
Manual tax tracking can leave exporters facing customs delays, extra charges and hours of avoidable admin as order volumes rise.
Poor data quality is still holding back AI and reporting, even as businesses add specialist roles and restructure their data teams.
Poor-quality sanctions lists can swamp compliance teams with false alerts while letting real matches slip through, raising regulatory risk.
The region's clean power shift is being slowed less by missing kit than by financing and operational hurdles that stall adoption at scale.
Content inflation could leave brands sounding generic unless they use AI to sharpen strategy, as LinkedIn flags more artificial-sounding posts.
Stolen credentials can become an operational foothold within hours, leaving annual assessments too slow to catch the real attack paths.
Singapore banks and telcos face a narrower window to stop AI-assisted attackers chaining small flaws into major breaches.
Only 18% of organisations are turning AI investment into measurable growth, highlighting a leadership gap that may slow adoption across ASEAN.
Cyber defences falter when staff know the rules but still fail to act, making psychology as important as software for resilience.
A skills gap in critical systems is widening as veteran mainframe engineers near retirement, pushing firms to train new recruits with AI support.
States risk losing strategic autonomy as cloud, chip and cryptographic dependencies spread beyond borders and into foreign-controlled systems.
