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The Singapore Parliament passed the Cybersecurity (Amendment) Bill (the Bill) on 7 May 2024, amending the Cybersecurity Act 2018 (the Act). The Act is Singapore’s legal framework for the supervision and maintenance of national cybersecurity by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), setting out measures to prevent, manage and respond to cybersecurity threats and incidents, and the Bill seeks to extend the scope of the Act over new technologies and business models that have emerged over ...

Despite early apprehensions about an economic recovery in 2024, we continue to see continued investments in digital transformation initiatives by the financial services sector in Asia. We continue to see digital services rising on the back of maturing understanding and adoption of technologies like analytics, cloud and mobility. Targeted outcomes continue to be efficiencies, convenience and accessibility.However, some innovations like artificial intelligence and even digitalization bring with...

Gartner predicts more than 70% of government agencies will use AI to enhance human administrative decision making by 2026. Machine learning, analytics and generative AI will mature over the next two years and combine into a suite of tools that will support improved government service delivery.Gartner VP analyst Todd Kimbriel says government CIOs must find new ways to meet citizen demands for modern, accessible and resilient services, by focusing on sustainable and scalable technology.In this ...

The CIMA Foundation says “disaster don’t discriminate, but people do”. The journey to gender parity remains obstructed by a myriad of factors including culture, bias, misconceptions and attitudes. But if the Paris 2024 Olympics is any indication of the possibility, we may have hope that someday, there will be parity between the genders across the finance function, if not the rest of the enterprise, all the way to the C-suite and the Board. The 2024 International Women’s Day theme of incl...

The accelerated digitalisation of business processes arising from the pandemic of 2020-2022 has proven that humans are resilient, responsive and creative when the situation calls for it. In ASEAN, 8 out of 10 members are in some stage of implementing a national ID program. How will these developments, on top of developments around identity security, and AI in security among other things.In recognition of Identity Management Day, FutureCISO spoke to Chern-Yue Boey, senior vice president, ...

A Gartner 2023 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey revealed that even before ChatGPT, one-third of CIOs say their organization had already deployed artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, and 15% more believe they will deploy AI within the next year. Recognising the high expectations CEOs and business unit leaders have on AI puts a heavier burden on the CIO to manage expectations and the reality of integrating an emerging technology into existing operational processes – ensuri...