Cloud privacy, security concerns driving IT hiring in Singapore
With Singapore's new Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) coming into force this July, local companies could be slapped with fines of up to a million dollars for breaches of privacy. So it is not surprising CIOs in Singapore are turning their attention to an obvious area of vulnerability: personal data stored in the "cloud", said Stella Tang, Director of Robert Half Singapore.
65 percent of CIOs in Singapore believe security risks are the biggest problem with cloud technology – a concern shared by 57 per cent of CIOs polled in Asia-Pacific, noted Tang, referring to a recent survey. The poll involved over 400 CIOs in Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and Japan.
