May 2026by Lim May-Ann As the years progress and more digital natives are born to the world, governments are confronting a difficult digital policy question: how can children be protected online without compromising privacy, freedom,… Read More »Child Safety, Cybersecurity, and the Age Verification Technology Dilemma in Asia Pacific
Apr 2026Lim May-Ann The World Economic Forum has highlighted the global cybersecurity skills shortage as a looming crisis, with more than 90% of organisations experiencing a breach in 2024, which they partially attribute to a lack of cybersecurity… Read More »Upskilling The Cybersecurity Gap
Mar 2026Lim May-Ann France made headlines in 2025 for becoming the first government to endorse the UN Open Source Principles, and further in April 2026 announced its decision to migrate its government systems off Windows to Linux software. Linux… Read More »The Weakest Link: Securing the Software Supply Chain in the Age of Open-Source Insecurity
Feb 2026Lim May-Ann In 2026, CCAPAC observes that the traditional approach towards protecting a “network perimeter” has collapsed. With remote work options driving organizational work, multi-cloud ecosystems being de rigueur, and agentic AI/autonomous AI agents… Read More »Beyond Passwords: Why Identity is the Only Perimeter Left in the AI Economy
Lim May-Ann, Jan 2026 TL;DR• What is the threat of harvest now, decrypt later?• What are some practices today that leave us vulnerable to HNDL? Particularly in the Asia Pacific region?• What can we do… Read More »Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL): Data Hoarding and Retention, Delayed Impact of Data Breaches, and Cryptographic Mapping
Dec 2025by Lim May-Ann 2025 saw governments, financial institutions, telecom operators, and critical infrastructure providers facing escalating threats from ransomware groups, state-linked hackers, and AI-powered cybercriminals. At the same time, we also saw the public… Read More »Asia Pacific’s Top Cybersecurity News Stories of 2025
Nov 2025by Lim May-Ann With the introduction of readily-available generative artificial intelligence (genAI) platforms for consumers, many policymakers are realising that deepfakes are no longer merely a misinformation problem, they are a full-spectrum cybersecurity threat.… Read More »Deepfakes and the Collapse of Digital Trust in Asia Pacific
Oct 2025by Ethan Mudavanhu Artificial intelligence has outgrown its adolescence. What began as a tool for narrow automation is now a sprawling ecosystem of autonomous AI agents – self-directed, and self-improving. Yet as AI becomes… Read More »AI Security in 2025 and Beyond: A new CCAPAC Report
by Tommaso De Zan The rise of agentic artificial intelligence marks a fundamental shift in organisational automation and decision-making. AI agents are designed to enhance efficiency by autonomously handling complex tasks and learning from interactions,… Read More »AI Agents: Emerging Threat or Opportunity?
Aug 2025by Lim May-Ann From “Smart Nation” initiatives in Singapore to the industrial hubs in Vietnam and Indonesia, IoT has been driving digital transformation and efficiency narratives in the public sector over the last decade.… Read More »IoT and Security in the age of Artificial Intelligence