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Meta’s recent acquisition of Moltbook, the first social network built exclusively for AI agents, marks a pivotal moment as autonomous agents begin to communicate across platforms. While this unlocks powerful new capabilities, it also exposes critical identity security challenges. From impersonation risks to exploding machine identities, organisations must now treat
For many years now, Asia's cyber threat landscape has been marked by escalating nation-state attacks and rampant cloud breaches. In 2026, it stands to be transformed by integrating agentic AI for proactive threat detection. This autonomous technology could pre-empt lateral movements, reduce alert fatigue, and enable real-time breach containment, bolstering
Rohit Dhawan, group executive director of Artificial Intelligence at Lloyds Banking Group in the UK, wrote: Agentic AI goes beyond GenAI, enabling autonomous action, workflow orchestration, and real‑time decision-making at scale. He goes on to predict that 2026 marks a turning point as agentic AI moves from experimentation to enterprise-wide
As of 2025, women represent just 24% of the global cybersecurity workforce, with figures in Asia lagging at under 20%—a stark reminder of the persistent gender gap in one of the world's most critical and fast‑evolving sectors. Yet this imbalance also signals immense untapped potential. Across Singapore, India, Japan, and
Traditional defences fall short in the region's rapidly digitising landscape, with vulnerabilities across the cloud, OT, supply chains, and critical sectors such as healthcare. For CIOs, CISOs and CROs, the industrialisation of cyber threats requires pivoting to practical defence strategies against threats that operate like efficient enterprises, powered by AI
As we approach 2026, the promise of artificial intelligence across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong is palpable, driven in part by aspirations for unparalleled efficiency and innovation. Yet, for AI to truly deliver on this promise for business leaders, a critical threshold of trust and security must be crossed. The
