Hong Kong’s source of IT insight www.cw.com.hk December 2018 • Price HK$50 The Year of the Boar Break on through to the other side Published By Singtel_Liquid Infrastructure_210x274mm_path.pdf 1 22/11/18 6:21 pm C M Y CM MY CY CMY K C O N T E N T S DECEMBER 2018 WWW.CW.COM.HK Technology Trendlines 2019 Break on through to the other side 4 14 PAGE 20 71 12 4 upfront 16 forecast2019 Security: the little black What can techies expect in dress the Year of the Boar? 6 news 71 hkcsview Time to shine 10 review2018 Inno-tech made great strides in Hong Kong SUBSCRIBE TO CWHK e-newsletter CHECK www.cw.com.hk for daily news and online features. new Dec UPFRONT STEFAN HAMMOND Security: the little http://www.cw.com.hk Computerworld Hong Kong is published by Questex Asia Ltd, black dress 13/F, 88 Hing Fat Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. GROUP PUBLISHER Simon Yeung [email protected] EDITORIAL n 2004, I was interviewed by a long- ger of Hong Kong businesses falling five EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Stefan Hammond [email protected] DEPUTY EDITOR Gigi Onag [email protected] gone media outlet on my then-role as years behind on cyberdefense levels, and DEPUTY EDITOR Nancy Ho [email protected] Assistant Editor for Computerworld a lack of readiness to detect and remediate DESIGN MANAGER Pauline Wong [email protected] IHong Kong. They asked me what topic I cyber threats.” SALES covered most often. My reply: “Security, 2018 was also the year of the GDPR— ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Connie Yip [email protected] ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Ray Wong [email protected] because it’s like the Little Black Dress: it the first true twenty-first century data pri- SENIOR SALES & MARKETING EXECUTIVE never goes out of style.” vacy protection law. Prior to its enactment Suki Kong [email protected] Back then I toted a Nokia 3310 phone on May 25, separate EU countries won ADMINISTRATION AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR which had an LED as a flashlight, a state- judgements against firms judged to be in Will Ahmad [email protected] of-the-art mobile. Nowadays I carry a breach of EU data privacy laws. In May CIRCULATION MANAGER Shipman Kwok [email protected] computer with a built-in radio transmitter 2017, the French National Commission MANAGEMENT and receiver, because that’s what a smart- on Computing and Liberty fined Face- REGIONAL HR & ADMIN DIRECTOR Janis Lam [email protected] phone is. Almost everyone in Hong Kong book and Facebook Ireland €150,000— ACCOUNTING MANAGER Nancy Chung [email protected] has one now, and these devices each have the maximum fine at that time—for data more computing power than all of US privacy violations. space agency NASA had when they put “That might be enough to persuade Computerworld Hong Kong is published twice annually. All material a man on the moon. We use them for all smaller businesses to change their behav- is Copyright 2018 by Questex LLC, Inc. Reproduction is strictly forbidden without written permission. sorts of things, but in the MTR, it seems ior, but for Facebook it’s just 25 minutes’ like plenty of users view these magical profit,” wrote tech journalist Peter Sayer. 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