Newsletter: Kaspersky launches an interactive test to explore gender and work-life balance barriers in IT

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In celebration of International Women’s Day last 8th March 2025, Kaspersky is launching “Confronting IT's Career Barriers”, an interactive game-like test that delves into the obstacles — both visible and invisible — hindering career progression in tech. Inviting users to make a stark choice between gender and work-life balance barriers they’d be ready to cope with at workplace, the project aims to raise awareness of the impact they have not only on individual careers but also the broader industry and offers ways to tackle them.

The tech industry continues to face structural inequalities that shape career opportunities and workplace culture. From the glass ceiling and pay gaps to work-life balance struggles, these barriers influence how professionals — especially underrepresented groups, including women — progress in their careers. Despite ongoing discussions about diversity, the numbers tell a different story: women only hold 10% of senior positions in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), compared with 25% in other fields. 

Newsletter: Exclusive Networks and Palo Alto Networks Launch Managed SOC as a Service in Southeast Asia

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Exclusive Networks (Euronext Paris: EXN), a global leader in cybersecurity, today announces the launch of Managed SOC as a Service, in partnership with Palo Alto Networks. Addressing the rapidly growing Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) market, this threat intelligence solution enables cybersecurity players to enhance productivity, customer service, talent diversity, and security.

Newsletter: PROTECT 2025: Doing Business Amidst New Threats

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On March 14, 2025, the PROTECT International Conference Series on "Doing Business Amidst New Threats" will take place at the New World Makati Hotel.

The international community is facing an evolving different threat to global peace and security. While the global security risk and threat in 2024 may be described as “unprecedented", 2025 may be described as “unconventional”. We see this in geopolitical tensions, gray zone warfare actions, AI arms race, rising insider threats, fragmented extremism and other developments. PROTECT 2025 conference on Doing Business Amidst New Threats will deep dive into these security challenges.

Newsletter: Data protection, complex tech environments, downtime: main business headache related to IT Security

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According to the recent Kaspersky IT Security Economics report, the majority of companies find the loss of productivity, securing complex tech environments, and enabling data protection to be the most concerning business issues, driven by growing IT security needs and requirements. 

The Kaspersky IT Security Economics report is released every year to analyze the changes in budgets, breaches and business challenges affecting IT Security decision makers. This report is compiled from interviews with IT and IT security professionals from organizations of different sizes and industries. The survey was carried out in 27 countries across Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, Turkey and the Africa region, Latin America, and North America.

Newsletter: Global IT Outage - Building a More Resilient Digital Future

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By Matthew Hardman, Chief Technology Officer, APAC, Hitachi Vantara

On July 19th, a significant global IT outage resulted in widespread disruptions across various sectors, impacting businesses, institutions, and critical services.

Newsletter: Ransomware menace plagues SEA businesses

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Kaspersky blocks nearly 300K ransomware attacks against organisations in the region last year

A total of 287,413 ransomware incidents were detected by Kaspersky cybersecurity solutions for businesses in Southeast Asia (SEA) from January to December 2023.

Newsletter: Converge earns two Global Economics Awards

10/13/2021 10:18:28 PM

Converge has gained international recognition in the Global Economics Awards 2021 where it won the Best ICT Solutions Provider under the Technology Awards Category, while CEO and Co-Founder Dennis Anthony H. Uy was awarded the Best Entrepreneur - ICT under the Leadership Awards Category. 

Author's Note: Converge ICT not only got hailed by the majority for bringing superb internet connectivity, but also garnerned awards for its drive towards technological innovation and excellence.

Read more on why this ICT service company has gained international recognition at the Global Economics Awards 2021 where they took home two awards.

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Converge ICT inks loan package with LANDBANK

09/04/2021 06:20:08 PM

Converge Information and Communications Technology Solutions, Inc. has recently inked a P3 billion term loan agreement with the state-owned Land Bank of the Philippines.

Acronis intros the advanced protection pack for its Cyber Protect Cloud solution

07/31/2021 11:03:22 AM

Global cyber protection leader Acronis has recently announced its new advanced protection pack for its service provider solution, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud. 

Newsletter: Escalating work privileges: 64% of employees who argued with the IT department about updates were allowed to use their current versions

07/02/2021 07:37:36 AM

Author's note: Today's workplace seems to be keeping up with today's demands on cybersecurity. Kaspersky reported in their study that how information technology responds well with the demands of updates in their work devices. Nearly two-thirds of staff skip installing updates on certain software or OS at all, following the disputes among over one-fifth of employees with the IT Staff.

All these data statistics and overall reports in this press release below. 

Kaspersky advises local finance sector to improve threat intelligence

05/16/2021 01:40:45 PM

As digital money transactions soaring high during this ongoing pandemic period, the financial sectors need to take a critical look at their integrated security and improve their threat intelligence capabilities.

Cybersecurity company Kaspersky told the statement in their recent press release.

“For the large majority of cybercriminals, easy money is the prime motivator. And the financial sector is uniquely positioned to be a target of attacks regardless of season because it’s always where the money is. The growth of digital financial services in the Philippines, like in other parts of the region, is creating new and heightened risks for both service users and service providers. In this case, technology will be the game-changer,” said Yeo Siang Tiong, General Manager for Southeast Asia, Kaspersky.

Annual Cyber Protection Week survey: More Solutions Do Not Bring Better Protection

03/30/2021 08:57:27 PM

Acronis has recently released the findings of its second yearly Cyber Protection Week survey, which uncovered a dangerous disconnect between the need for organizations to keep their data protected and the ineffective investments they've made trying to reach that goal. 

Kept under wraps: Half of companies prohibit sharing threat intelligence findings with professional communities —Kaspersky IT report

03/20/2021 08:05:04 PM

There are two-thirds (66%) of threat intelligence (TI) analysts that are involved in professional communities, but only half of them (52%, to be exact) of all those working in IT and cybersecurity roles are not allowed to share threat intelligence artifacts discovered through those communities. These were the findings from the recent Kaspersky report named, “Managing your IT security team.”

PH places 6th in 2020 global web threat detections

02/28/2021 02:11:20 PM

KSN 2020 Top 10 global list with web threats detections 

The Philippines slipped down two spots in the latest top 10 global list of countries with the most web-borne threats based on a report from Kaspersky. 

IT staff spends 6 hours on hobbies in a workweek —Kaspersky study

02/28/2021 03:30:56 AM

Pic. 1 Types of hobbies IT security employees take during working hours

Imagine spending a lot of time doing non-work activities in a working week. That's what 85 percent of IT security people do. This accounts for six hours in a working week – one hour more than other staff across the company overall. 

Acronis renews partnership with Williams Racing

02/28/2021 03:59:05 AM

Acronis has announced the renewal of its partnership with Williams Racing recently; making the global leader in cyber protection extend its areas of cooperation and driving the adoption of award-winning technology across the entire IT infrastructure of this motor racing team and constructor.

SilentFade targets SEA

02/18/2021 05:25:31 PM

Known AdFruaters SilentFade is spreading like a wildfire again, and one of its recent targets is the Southeast Asia region.

More than half of SEA-based companies need IT security updates to beat data breach cases

02/18/2021 04:22:25 PM

Looks like more than half of the companies in Southeast Asia would have to catch up with today's security updates as Kasperksy has reported that 54 percent of organizations in Southeast Asia (SEA) have work to do regarding the crucial task of installing the latest software versions in order for them to minimize the risk of the data breach.

Kaspersky notices improvement in perception of gender equality, with 7 of 10 women more confident than ever

02/19/2021 12:03:44 PM

It's a good thing that perception of gender equality has improved in some ways in the past two years. Though, of course, there is always room for improvement as the direction moves forwards and further as Kaspersky has noted in their Women in Tech report Where are we now? Understanding the evolution of women in technology.

More classroom-disguised riskware attacks take place during second half of 2020

02/17/2021 01:12:46 PM

Obviously, the pandemic hasn't slowed down any signs of cyberthreats as Kaspersky has reported that rampant increase of threats basically seen as a popular online learning platform during the second half of the previous year.