Cybersecurity

AI Is Shrinking The Time To Compromise. Most Firms Still Can’t Recover Control

AI Is Shrinking The Time To Compromise. Most Firms Still Can’t Recover Control

Editor’s Note: Asia Tech Lens turns one this week. The goal when we started was straightforward: track Asia’s technology rise with perspective, without the hype, and free from rhetoric. A year in, readers from nearly 60 countries have found their way here—many in the U.S., the U.K., and across Europe, alongside strong communities in Singap…


Two AI Phones. Two Access Models. One Critical Difference.

Two AI Phones. Two Access Models. One Critical Difference.

Two models are emerging in the race to build “AI phones.”


Agentic AI Can Act. Singapore’s New Rulebook Says: Prove You Can Stop It.

Agentic AI Can Act. Singapore’s New Rulebook Says: Prove You Can Stop It.

Agentic AI, advanced autonomous systems that can act without human supervision, is becoming more common and sophisticated.


AI Is Accelerating Cybercrime—And Southeast Asia Is Where The Damage Shows Up

AI Is Accelerating Cybercrime—And Southeast Asia Is Where The Damage Shows Up

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping cybersecurity by compressing response time. It helps organizations sift through enormous volumes of signals and automate parts of defense, but it also gives attackers shortcuts, making it easier to craft convincing scams, probe systems at speed, and scale attacks with far less expertise than bef…


Emerging Voices: The Security-Trained Founder Rebuilding Workflows for the Agent Era

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December 18, 2025
Emerging Voices: The Security-Trained Founder Rebuilding Workflows for the Agent Era

Southeast Asia’s enterprises talk confidently about transformation, automation, and AI. But the moment a workflow moves from “assist” to “act” the enthusiasm slows. While agentic systems sound visionary in boardrooms, in practice they collide with long-standing habits and ways of doing business. Who signs off? Who supervises autonomy? Where is the data …