May 2018 – Cybersecurity & Data Protection

A recent study, presented by the content delivery network and cloud security specialist CDNetworks, revealed a major discrepancy between corporate reality and self-assessment in IT security.

As part of Operation Trojan Horse, Hong Kong Customs recently undertook a series of raids against four retail outlets in Sham Shui Po and Wan Chai.

Just last week, the GDPR came into force, but privacy advocates immediately got down to work to put the law to the test by getting granular on Facebook, including its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp.

Millennials represent more than 45% of Asia Pacific’s population, and with 60% of the world’s millennials expected to live in Asia by 2020, it’s a group that no one can afford to ignore.

Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, announced that QUOINE, one of the fastest growing innovators in the world of cryptocurrency, has made an additional investment with Salesforce to grow and scale its business globally.

Ad Verification is a real-time technical process which verifies the inventory quality and visibility of advertising impressions. In the fight against fraud and the lack of transparency and viewability, advertisers and agencies can use Ad Verification to protect their brand image, besides boosting their campaign performance by streamlining media investment.

When delivering advertising, the SSL / TLS protocol must be used, to encrypt the data traffic between the client and the web server. What we want to highlight in this article, however, is the fact that encryption must also include all participating ad servers within the delivery chain so that fraudsters cannot succeed in hiding

The IBM study, titled “The end of the beginning: Unleashing the transformational power of GDPR”, reveals that nearly 60% of respondents see the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as an opportunity to improve privacy, security, data management, and catalyst for new business models, rather than a compliance issue or hurdle.

In today’s digital and globalized economy, organizations face a heightened threat of fraud. This, coupled with more effective detection of fraud, has driven reported economic crime to its highest level, PwC’s bi-annual survey of economic crime recorded.

The cost of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors has decreased remarkably over the past decade, heralding new possibilities of a renewed push for smart cities. With worldwide spending on IoT predicted to surpass the USD$1 trillion mark by 2020, this has increasingly attracted attention within the various sectors.