ePLDT VITRO Makati Cooling Tower the next hyperscaler hub of Asia ,” says Genuino .
“ We are also working very closely with the government to ensure that we build out this infrastructure to be able to promote economic inclusiveness . We ' re working very closely with schools , with executive branches of government , and with SMEs to help fuel their digital transformation .”
Driving digital transformation is all well and good but , as many organisations and governments learn too late , that also means increased risk in terms of cyber security . The COVID-19 pandemic was in some ways a gift to cyber criminals who were only too happy to take advantage of the sudden rush to move business operations to the cloud .
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Market share of ePLDT in domestic data centres
Securing the cloud Alexis Bernardino is cyber security Evangelist / Customer Field CISO at ePLDT , and he says it is not simply a question of if an organisation will experience a breach but when .
“ The $ 1,000,000 question really is , is your organisation ready to respond and recover ?” says Bernardino .
“ At ePLDT , how we adapt to this current cyber landscape is by veering away from the conventional ‘ preventive , detective , reactive ’ cyber security approach and we move the needle to a predictive and responsive mode of proactive cyber .”
We operate on an “ assumed breach mode ” acting as if we have been already breached . With this strategy , we are already
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