APeJ's thrust on digital infrastructure drives public cloud services spending to USD 124 billion by 2025: IDC
The COVID-19 crisis led most enterprises in APeJ region to prioritize digital infrastructure resiliency investments to ensure long-term business resiliency and success. Public cloud services are building blocks that enable this with flexibility and quick deployment, allowing agility in IT operations. According to IDC’s Worldwide Public Cloud Services Spending Guide, enterprises are now... By CIO&Leader
Gearing up for future of work using tech-driven innovation
During the initial phase of the pandemic, few knew how to continue with running the business and how long the uncertainty would last. Staying connected to business, improving remote work management, and meeting erratic client expectations became challenging in the new work-from-home ecosystem. Things were even more complex for SAS, a business analytics software and services firm. The challenge... By Jatinder Singh
Nearly 80% of organizations identity threat modeling as a top priority in 2021: Study
There is a growing priority of threat modeling for applications that companies build, coinciding with a belief that the majority or all of these efforts could be automated, according to Security Compass’ study, titled The State of Threat Modeling in 2021. The study was designed to provide a better understanding of the current state of threat modeling in mid-sized, USD 100M to USD 999M and large... By CIO&Leader
Phishing in messaging apps on the rise: Study
The biggest share of detected malicious links between December 2020 and May 2021 were sent via WhatsApp (89.6%), followed by Telegram (5.6%), according to Kaspersky research. Viber is in third place with a share of 4.7% and Hangouts has less than one percent. Countries experiencing the highest number of phishing attacks were Russia (46%), Brazil (15%) and India (7%). Globally, 480 detections were... By CIO&Leader
Gururaj Rao appointed EVP & CTO at Aditya Birla Health Insurance Co
Gururaj Rao has been appointed EVP & CTO at Aditya Birla Health Insurance Co. He moves from Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services where he served as the VP & CIO. He was with Mahindra for over a decade. Earlier, he was associated with ICICI Bank, Birla Sun Life Insurance Co, and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co. Rao had served as a NEXT100 jury member in 2015, 2017 and 2018. He... By CIO&Leader
Restricted only by imagination
India is a mobile country. Two of the top three mobile operators in the world are Indian. In the 90s, IT—no matter how much we pat ourselves on the back as an IT superpower on the strength of our manpower—threatened to accelerate the economic divide in India, a country already with a wide gap between poor and rich. The advent of mobile single-handedly reversed that trend. It is probably... By Shyamanuja Das
Three steps to close the enterprise cybersecurity skills gap
The growing number of remote workers and increased online activities have augmented cybersecurity breaches like never before. In the first quarter of 2020 alone, the country saw 37% more data breaches than 2019, as per a study by IBM. According to another survey by Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), India witnessed 1.16 million cases of cyberattacks in 2020, nearly three times that of... By Jatinder Singh
Digital signature market to generate revenue worth USD 25,211.3 million in 2030
The usage of digital signatures is rising as a result of the increasing need for user authentication and smooth digital transaction management, according to P&S Intelligence. Moreover, the use of digital signatures is aligned with digitization, as well as the widespread acceptance of online channels for payment and other procedures. Because of the aforementioned factors, the global digital... By CIO&Leader
NEXT100 winner Mohit Gupta is now Group CISO at Motherson Group
Mohit Gupta is now Group CISO at Motherson Group. Prior to this new role, he was CISO of Motherson Sumi INfotech and Designs, an IT division of Motherson Group. Earlier, he was associated with Espire Infolabs, HCL Technologies and TQ Vision. Gupta recently won the NEXT100 Awards in 2020. He holds a Masters in Cyber Law & Security. By CIO&Leader
Cryptominer malware hidden inside online games infected over 222,000 systems worldwide: Study
A new Monero crypto-miner malware, Crackonosh, has been circulating since at least June 2018 and has yielded over 2 million USD in revenue for its creators from over 222,000 infected systems worldwide, according to Avast Threat Labs report. Crackonosh searches for and disables many popular antivirus programmes as part of its anti-detection and anti-forensics tactics and also disables system... By CIO&Leader
Enterprise 5G: Fuelling New Possibilities
The next generation of wireless technology, 5G, is expected to open a future of new and exciting possibilities for enterprises. With a speed that can reach up to 10Gbps, theoretically, 5G can be 100 times faster than its predecessor, 4G LTE, and holds great potential to anchor enterprise digital transformation. If 4G-Long Term Evolution (LTE) revolutionized the business ecosystem by... By Jatinder Singh