There has certainly not been a shortage of anecdotes on how COVID-19 should be declared the CIO of the year. I have been in many conversations that have variously blamed or credited the pandemic as being the single most significant event that has gotten organizations scrambling to rethink business models and accelerate their digital transformation – something that had previously been at the back of the mind, now pushed to the forefront of every business decision.

The effective and timely identification of malware is one of the greatest challenges for IT security today. This is not least due to the sheer number of new malware variants but also to their sophisticated obfuscation, which overwhelms conventional signature-based protection technologies.

Mainly fileless malware is a growing problem here since it is not tied to executable files and leaves little or no traces on the hard drive. Above all, memory-based malware attacks are popular with hackers, which is active in the main memory, sets up command channels there and then carries out operations independently, such as downloading further Trojans.

The Coronavirus made clear that there is a need to find a way to bring people together and if it is virtually, so that they feel like they’re together even when they’re not. Therefore, it is of no surprise that conference organizers try to do exactly that after the cancellation of most B2B events worldwide this year.

The German seminar provider and specialist publisher Dashöfer launched the virtual reality (VR) application EasySpeech for presentation skills training. Speakers can import their presentation or practice step by step rhetorical exercises such as direct speeches.

PropertyGuru just launched a new digital feature ‘StoryTeller’ into its market leading sales enablement platform ‘PropertyGuru FastKey’.

FastKey digitizes and automates the entire property sales process from project launch to close of sale and currently serves over 500 projects from 100 property developers in Southeast Asia.

The support of trading and data analysis platforms through Augmented Reality (AR) provides traders and investors with a highly developed financial technology that enables them to monitor and visualize the financial markets with an enormous depth of information. Novel or improved representations of dynamic data through heat maps or two-dimensional images, which change into 3D shapes at the push of a button or gesture, enable holographic visualization and offer completely new insights.

Thycotic, a provider of cloud-ready Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions for more than 10,000 organizations worldwide released Privilege Manager 10.8 which uses advanced machine learning capabilities to better assist IT teams in securing employee workstations and servers. The company makes enterprise-grade privilege management accessible for everyone by eliminating dependency on overly complex security tools and prioritizing productivity, flexibility, and control.

Online video is more popular than ever with Singaporeans watching eight hours, 42 minutes per week on average, higher than the global average of seven hours, 55 minutes per week. With consumers homebound during the pandemic, video viewing in Singapore increased 14% compared to last year. This is according to the “State of Online Video 2020,” a report commissioned by Limelight Networks, Inc., to understand consumer perceptions and behaviors around online video.

There are numerous methods of identifying customer groups or segments analytically. Apteco, a true expert in this field, picked two of these methods - the RFM and the Pareto analysis – to assist us in understanding customer data without having to be a statistician.

WaterBear Network is a free interactive video-on-demand platform that allows viewers to watch high quality content, interact with hundreds of purpose-driven organisations, and take action instantly, giving everyone, wherever they are, the tools to support the issues they feel inspired by.

Following Social Media Day this 30 June, ADA explores how usage and consumption of social media have gone through the roof to reach a ‘new normal’.

Through a deep analysis of social media trends across nine countries in South and Southeast Asia, we have identified four key findings around the uptake of social media and what this means for brands.

Google's goal is to provide searchers with high-quality answers to every question they could possibly ask. To do this, it relies on a complex collection of rules and ranking factors. Some of these factors fall under the category of E-A-T, meaning Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness.

A company that could read the minds of its customers would have ensured its business success forever, but the considerable challenges that companies face in the digital age show that this isn’t easy to achieve. Not only do the demands of customers constantly change, providers can’t adapt their existing processes quickly enough to meet their customers growing needs and expectations. Those who have set themselves the task of building intelligent processes to improve the customer experience often whether know where to start collecting necessary data nor how to process them smartly. New digital technologies are constantly raising the bar for customer experience.

Despite COVID-19 induced lockdown restrictions now being lifted in many parts of the world, the extended time spent confined to the home has had a significant impact on consumers’ shopping habits and their interactions with brands, according to research released by Adobe.