Author: Dzof Azmi

Turning Singapore's spillover into Malaysia's hybrid, multi, and edge cloud ecosystem advantage
Opportunity to capitalise on Singapore's moratorium on data centre construction Innovation, collaboration, and govt support needed for Malaysia to grow data centre sector
Tune Protect on finding the right key to cover woefully uninsured Malaysian SMEs
Aimed at micro SMEs, of whom 85% are underinsured or uninsured Looking to disrupt the space of Gen Z and Millennials entrepreneurs
Sasana Symposium 2023: Malaysia's real-time payment system 'robust and reliable' and 'second to none', but not hitting max capacity
E-payment use in M'sia has surged to 291 transactions per capita, targeting 400 by 2026 Bank-fintech collaboration crucial, combining trust and security with fintech's innovation
The future of personal data sharing: Data wallets and empowered users
Data wallets allow individuals to securely manage, share, maintain personal data Will lead to data ecosystems, and economy where personal data is willingly traded
Malaysia faces escalating cybersecurity breaches and skills gap: Fortinet Survey
45% of respondents experienced breaches costing over US$1mil in past year No single org or entity can solve problem alone, vital role for govts to play  Image source: 2023 Fortinet-IDC Asia Pacific SASE Survey
Indonesia-Malaysia Cross-Border QR Payment Further Strengthens Regional Payment Connectivity in ASEAN
Aims to promote faster, cheaper, more transparent, and more inclusive cross-border payments, particularly benefiting micro, small, and medium enterprises. Expected to strengthen economic ties between Indonesia and Malaysia, support a stronger post-pandemic economic recovery, and provide greater convenience for travelers.
Working with Crest, Wong Peng Wen aims to create a world-class RF ecosystem in Malaysia
Left role as head at Huawei's R&D Lab in Sweden, to 'do something for Malaysia'  Help firms embrace RF technologies like 5G/6G and IoT, support value-added RF activities
Luno Malaysia Assures Customers Operations Remain Unaffected Following Parent Company Layoffs
Layoffs has not affected ops in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia "Important to reiterate to everyone that customer funds are safe"
DNB's 5G consultant: "EMIR has demonstrated that it does not understand how the SWN works"
Meticulously addresses criticisms by EMIR Research about DNB's 5G rollout Argue's proposals would lead to wholesale costs beetween 4 to 5 times higher
Epicor sees Malaysian manufacturing-based SMEs lagging regional neighbours in digitalisation
ERP is a fundamental first service to digitise, acts as the backbone. Change pushed by associations, govt, new gen of company leadership
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