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Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2017
There has never been a better time to live and work in ASEAN, a fast-growing economic powerhouse with a young, tech-savvy population that lives and breathes technology.
Led by governments and a handful of technology suppliers, countries across the region have been forerunners in driving digital transformation through smart city initiatives and industry transformation roadmaps. The goal is to lift living standards, create well-paid jobs and position their countries as leaders in the digital age.
In this review of the top 10 Computer Weekly articles focused on IT in ASEAN, we look at what countries across the region are doing to drive adoption of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT), raise their cyber security capabilities amid growing cyber threats, and draw more women into the IT industry.
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CW Benelux August 2017
If the latest IoT Tech Day in Utrecht, Netherlands, is anything to go by, the IoT is moving from the enthusiast’s bedroom to the commercial setting.
Computer Weekly attended the annual event and discovered how the internet of things could change the world. Google even used an April Fool’s joke to promote IoT just before the event, when it announced how it was going to make the Netherlands a dry and sunny place through connected windmills. A joke maybe, which you can read about in this issue, but who would have thought driverless cars, flying taxis and robots giving financial advice would be more than science fiction.
In this issue, read about the application of the IoT at railways in the Netherlands, which is reducing congestion on pedestrian routes caused by people making their daily commute. The move away from paper tickets to plastic chipcards has opened up possibilities for tracking people’s movements. The proliferation of smartphones, lower-cost sensor technology and smart application of the IoT have made it more feasible.
If the Netherlands is going to continue to remain a tech leader, it needs to attract the best and brightest in the industry. The country has a shortage of tech talent. Recent research by Intelligence Group shows that for every 26 vacancies, just one junior IT professional is available. And for mid-career IT roles, there is only one professional available for every 16 vacancies. Unsurprisingly, it is programmers and data analysts that are in highest demand in the Netherlands. Trouble is, it is the same in London and Silicon Valley, so there is strong competition for their services.
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In 2017, the insider threat epidemic begins
Insider threats begin with trusted employees whose frustration, resentment, apathy, lack of cyber security training and awareness, or external motivations radicalise them to unintentionally or willfully inflict harm on the organisation by compromising systems, assisting external cyber threat actors in multi-vector information warfare, or exfiltrating treasure troves of valuable PII, PHI, and other sensitive data.
Perimeter-based defences cannot stop the threats that are already inside the network. Bleeding-edge defence-grade insider threat solutions, such as user and entity behavioral analytics (UEBA), identity and access management (IAM), virtualisation and user activity monitoring (UAM) are necessary to detect, deter and mitigate the mounting insider threat epidemic against critical infrastructure.
