In this episode, we look at how enterprises are responding to the evolving threat landscape in Asia. With us today is Sanjay Aurora, Managing Director, Asia-Pacific at Darktrace.

The annual International Women’s Day is just around the corner. FutureCIO is running a series of interviews with women leaders from across industries and functions as our way of contributing to the gender equality movement.
Dana Nino, Senior Vice President for Global Growth, Customer Success and Partnership at global Fintech company Nium, lends her experience and expertise on how women can succeed in a man's world.

This year’s international women’s day campaign theme is Choose to Challenge. The call to action is “We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women's achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world.” 
Ceri Howes,  Head of Regulatory at Opensignal, shares her experiences climbing the leadership ladder.

What do firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDSs), virtual private networks (VPNs), and network traffic encryption and authentication have in common?

They are network security measures designed to protect the enterprise’s perimeter from external attacks.

What they do not do is protect an organisation from vulnerabilities from within like poorly designed business applications. As organisations accelerate the migration of workloads to the cloud, CIOs and CISOs will need to work in tandem with the development team to enhance web application security.

In PodChats for FutureCIO, we look to address app vulnerabilities in the cloud. We’ve invited Mark Lukie, systems engineer manager for Barracuda Networks to discuss the findings of a recent survey on web application security.

We all make mistakes and even in the era of digital transformation, business and finance grudgingly accept the reality. However, when it comes to information security, the preference is to minimise the mistakes because the repercussions can range from fines to revenue loss, to even a right to do business.

Daniel Chu, Director of Systems Engineering at ExtraHop Networks, shares his opinion, experience and expertise on this topic.

One of the conclusions of the Cisco 2021 Security Outcomes Study for APJC is that organizations that proactively upgrade technology report more security success, how this translates into the importance of software and cloud-first strategies is the subject of our Podchats for FutureCIO for today.
Kerry Singleton, Managing Director, Cybersecurity, APJC, for Cisco, talks about the on-going cybersecurity challenges organisations in Asia-Pacific and Japan must face as they settle into the new normal way of work.

Like many industries everywhere, Singapore’s insurance industry had to pivot in 2020. From an industry that nearly stood still in the first half of 2020, it managed to find its footing in the second allowing the life insurance subsector, for example, to register 3% growth in the fourth quarter of 2020, despite the pandemic’s continued to hold in the city.
Described as an insurance cooperative providing life, health and general insurance products, Singapore’s NTUC Income has identified inclusivity as key to its digital transformation. The firm was the first recipient of the inaugural Applied Innovation Institute Singapore Insurance Innovation and Digital Benchmark for its online effectiveness, social presence, digital innovations and push into insurtech.
Anny Huang, Head of Digital Business at NTUC Income, describes how data-driven is helping drive the transformation into a digital-ready insurance provider.

Organisations obtain competitive edge by building expertise in data management to fuel their business strategy. 
G2 predicts that in 2021, data-driven leaders will be reassessing their data management strategies due to the evolving technology environment. Organizations will prioritize investments in scalable data platforms to effectively secure, govern and analyze data across business functions through a single unified platform. These platforms will provide greater control over and allow seamless access to their data, irrespective of where the data is, and ultimately helping them gain valuable insights and make better business decisions. 
In this PodChats for FutureCIO, Sunil Mahale, vice president, Sales and Engineering and Emerging Technologies business for APJ, Commvault, talks about data trends that will drive the next normal in 2021.  

Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP applications have come a log way from the early systems used in manufacturing in the 1960s. Gartner forecasts the global ERP marketplace to reach US$44 billion by 2022. 

Accenture says securing and building the capability to take advantage of modern ERP solutions will be a key enterprise challenge.

To tackle the issues of business needs versus technical capabilities, amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, FutureCIO is joined by Guruprasad Gaonkar, Oracle’s Global Go-to-Market Leader, Cloud ERP & Digital Supply Chain.

In the report, 2021 Strategic Roadmap for Edge Computing, Gartner analyst Bob Gill wrote that Edge computing is entering the mainstream as organizations look to extend cloud to on-premises and to take advantage of IoT and transformational digital business applications. Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) leaders must incorporate edge computing into their cloud computing plans as a foundation for new application types over the long term.

In today’s PodChat with FutureCIO, we look at edge computing, the hype surrounding it and the realities of the technology. Helping us to understand what all the fuzz is about is Matthew Oostveen, CTO and VP for APJ at Pure Storage. Matthew, welcome to PodChats for FutureCIO.

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