July 20188 2018 has gotten off to a good start, in terms of Singapore's technology push toward becoming future-ready and achieving our Smart Nation aspirations. With developments including the announcement of Singapore's Digital District in Punggol and more schemes to support businesses in their digital push, we foresee cloud coming to the forefront with the Government and businesses alike bolstering cloud adoption to realise its benefits of increased productivity and resource optimisation.Business leaders, in particular, Chief Information Officers (CIOs), thus need to be privy to how they can ride the wave of cloud developments already emerging in the year. By aligning the capabilities of the cloud with business priorities, CIOs can ensure optimal business outcomes for their organisations.Invest in greater cloud securityCybersecurity has become a key necessity, especially with the increasing sophistication and regularity of cyber attacks, case in point being the near doubling of cybercrimes over the past year in Singapore. While businesses realise the need for the cloud, for its speed and scalability, CIOs are aware of the potential security threats that they are susceptible to, even with the slightest vulnerability or breach. As such, CIOs need to look at stepping up their investments in cloud security as they HOW CIOS CAN NAVIGATE THE CLOUD IN 2018continue on with the rest of the year, to mitigate risks of costly breaches and outages.A step up from the usual security features, this will involve the use of artificial intelligence to analyse a unified data set consisting of the full breadth of security and operational telemetry, as well as provide automated remediation. This will, thereby, enable quick changes to the organisation's security and operational posture. With that, CIOs need to invest in solutions that offer security incident and event management (SIEM), as well as user and entity behavioural analytics (UEBA), powered by cloud activity monitoring and threat detection to ensure that business operations are safeguarded from unwanted cyber threats. Leverage blockchain to obtain quality information on time With an approximate 10 percent of the global GDP IN MY V EWCHIN YING LOONG, VP ORACLE CLOUD PLATFORM, ASEAN & SAGE, ORACLE
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