Lionel Phang, Vice President APAC Region, Trend Micro
To be innovative in the digital
security realm, you need to be able to predict the future. It
requires a passion for safety and security to provide true
technology which enhances safety with information exchange.
The only way this can be done is via
collaboration with major network vendors like Cisco. Through
collaborating and communicating with these vendors, we all
understand the future developments that will be incorporated in
networks and prepare for the security needs these developments will
unveil.
When I look at my own family, my
children have some of their access to the internet restricted.
There are a lot of bad things on the internet and they need to be
protected from them. However, if the constraints are too limiting,
I also place them at a disadvantage in future life as there are
many things they can learn and friends they can make with the
abilities of a digital world.
Work and life are melding together and
employers need to understand the benefits and risks this produces.
With employees using their digital devices for personal as well as
business use, they become exposed to the full complexity of risks
that the digital world offers. At the same time, while employees
are working longer hours thanks to the flexibility of technology,
they are also opening their networks to all external risks.
The problem is that with the broad
range of personal and commercial information collected these days,
hackers are going to gain access to some of it via spyware. They
won't let you know they are doing it and companies don't want to
let anyone know it has been done on their network. Vulnerabilities
will always happen to a certain degree, and this creates problems
when this information is used for illegal purposes.
This brings me to my original point.
The only solution for innovation in digital security is to have a
passion for eradicating security problems. Everyone needs to be
educated that there are problems and bad things within our digital
world, just as there are in the natural world. If we all work
together collecting information to provide solutions that minimise
the impact of these security risks, then there will be more
potential to benefit from what our digital world has to offer into
the future.
- Lionel Phang, Vice President APAC
Region, Trend Micro
