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The International Built Environment Week (IBEW) 2025 opened at the Expo & Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands, marking a major convergence of innovation, expertise, and sustainability in the built environment sector. Spearheaded by BCA International, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Building and Construction Authority (BCA), and in partnership with RX Singapore, IBEW is the anchor platform for a week of diverse activities catering to the entire built environment ecosystem. With industry experts, pioneering startups, and over 200 exhibitors, IBEW serves as a dynamic hub for a wide array of stakeholders—from policymakers and industry pioneers to future talent—to engage in knowledge exchange, technology showcases, and strategic collaboration.  IBEW Expert Series 2025: Elevating professional skills  Sessions cover topics such as prefab efficiency, carbon emissions tracking, AI applications in BIM Under the theme “Today’s Professional, Tomorrow’s Expert,” this year’s event introduces IBEW Expert Series, that brings seasoned practitioners and innovators together to share practical knowledge, lessons learned, and future-oriented insights, for professionals to deepen technical knowledge and develop or finetune real-world skills. Sessions cover topics such as prefab efficiency, carbon emissions tracking, AI applications in BIM, and other emerging technologies—empowering participants to sharpen their skills and grow into experts themselves.  Important platform for exchanging ideas and showcasing solutions Camfil, a global clean air pioneer, is contributing to the IBEW Expert Series, sharing practical tools on Scope 1–3 calculations and carbon reporting. “As the first third-party verified APAC air filter supplier certified under the EPD International System, Camfil is committed to helping the region’s built environment sector advance sustainability goals while lowering long-term costs for building owners,” said Tobias Zimmer, Senior Vice President Public Affairs, Sustainability & Corporate Communication, Camfil. “IBEW continues to be an important platform for exchanging ideas and showcasing solutions that can address pressing challenges in the built environment. Through this year’s IBEW Expert Series, we are excited to share our knowledge and expertise, helping industry peers gain insights that can be directly applied to their projects.” IBEW’s mission to raise professional standards IBEW Expert Series embodies IBEW’s mission to raise professional standards and prepare the industry “As Obayashi celebrates its 60th anniversary of building in Singapore, we are honoured to have our experts speaking at the IBEW Expert Series and share their insights on how advanced robotics, climate-positive materials, and smart construction technology can help Singapore build more efficiently, sustainably, and resiliently." "We are also proud to showcase our latest innovations at BEX Asia. This is the ideal platform to share our vision for the next decades of construction," said Mr. Patrick Chia, Director at Obayashi Singapore, highlighting the company’s commitment to shaping Singapore’s future-ready urban landscape.  By combining real-world experience with forward-looking innovation, the IBEW Expert Series embodies IBEW’s mission to raise professional standards and prepare the industry for a future-ready built environment.  BEX Asia 2025: Showcasing innovation and sustainability  As the anchor exhibition of IBEW, BEX Asia 2025 brings together a diverse array of exhibitors focused on digitalisation, sustainability, and operational efficiency. Notable participants include Doxa Holdings International, Oracle Corporation Singapore, Signify Singapore, and Milipede—each demonstrating solutions that redefine construction, building management, supply chain efficiency, and more.  The exhibition also spotlights the region’s booming startup ecosystem, featuring emerging technologies addressing sector challenges such as financing, late payments, safety, and workflow digitalisation. Startups and innovators at BEX Asia are helping the industry adopt smarter, faster, and greener methods of construction and project management. How Deep-Tier Financing, developed in collaboration with Visa “Construction works best when everyone wins: developers reduce project risks, contractors gain stability and smaller suppliers have fair access to capital." "At BEX Asia 2025, Doxa is excited to demonstrate how Deep-Tier Financing, developed in collaboration with Visa and regional banking partners, makes this possible by giving developers greater visibility into project health and building a trusted ecosystem that supports every tier of the supply chain. With financial security across the board, projects can be delivered with greater certainty, efficiency and trust,” Edmund Ng, Co-Founder and CEO, Doxa Holdings International Pte Ltd. Exploring sustainable building advancements Combining the exhibition floor with targeted sessions, BEX Asia 2025 backs its role as a launchpad for industry change On 5 September 2025, BEX Asia will also feature focused sessions for attendees. The inaugural WSH Tech & Grants for SMEs session will provide practical guidance and funding insights for small and medium-sized enterprises looking to adopt workplace safety and health technologies.  Meanwhile, the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC) will host a seminar exploring sustainable building advancements, including smart lighting, cooling, and energy-efficient solutions. These sessions give attendees CPD points and connect them with knowledge and tools to strengthen sustainability and safety practices across projects.  Combining the exhibition floor with targeted sessions, BEX Asia 2025 reinforces its role as a launchpad for industry transformation—connecting solution providers, decision-makers, and businesses of all sizes with the technology and insights needed to build smarter, safer, and more sustainable cities.  CORENET X: Streamlining approvals, accelerating progress  A key feature at this year’s IBEW is the CORENET X Industry Seminar. Open to all industry stakeholders, besides sharing of key updates, learning points and good practices, this seminar will also feature industry firms who have cleared a major milestone approval to share their experiences with the industry to better prepare submissions for CORENET X: Singapore’s all-in-one digital platform for building approvals.  Mandatory starting 1 October 2025 for all new projects with a Gross Floor Area of 30,000sqm and above, the new regulatory process and platform allow organisations to navigate multiple agency requirements, spot and resolve issues early, and complete projects faster, saving time and costs. Key benefits include:  One-stop approvals: Get all approvals in a single, streamlined process.   Build with confidence: Know exactly what can be built before starting, avoiding costly changes.   Save time and money: Complete projects faster with reduced abortive work.  The CORENET X Concierge at BEX Asia offers visitors the chance to get hands-on with the platform and receive recommendations from BCA and partner organisations. From Submission Portal to model export testing, visitors can test drive the system and access curated resources that will accelerate their readiness.  Strategic partnerships and MoUs  IBEW also spotlights new collaborations that will strengthen the region’s built environment ecosystem This year’s IBEW also spotlights new collaborations that will strengthen the region’s built environment ecosystem. BCA International will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bridge Data Centres to promote sustainability and innovative construction methods in the development of green and smart data centres across Asia.  “This new partnership with BCA International underscores our shared commitment to supporting sustainable growth and digital transformation in the region." "This is reflected in the BCA Green Mark Platinum Certification recently achieved by our data centre in Malaysia—a demonstration of our ability to meet hyperscale demands while safeguarding resources for generations to come. By combining our expertise with BCA International, we can accelerate our journey towards net zero and deliver stronger, greener solutions for the future of data-driven, resilient infrastructure,” said Mr Eric Fan, CEO of Bridge Data Centres. Collaborative training and innovation In addition, Singapore Polytechnic will formalise a new MoU with the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) to foster a new generation of industry-ready architectural talent and enhance professional capabilities through collaborative training and innovation. This further demonstrates the strong role of educational institutions and professional organisations in preparing the next generation of industry talent.  A hub for industry collaboration and transformation  IBEW is a dynamic platform that connects, educates, and empowers built environment professionals IBEW is a dynamic platform that connects, educates, and empowers built environment professionals. This week-long series offers a range of opportunities designed to strengthen industry capabilities and drive innovation.  At the heart of the programme is the IBEW Expert Series, a premier 2-day conference where global thought pioneers and innovators take a deep dive into specific topics and focus on practical applications, lessons learned, and advanced skills that can be directly applied to projects. Complementing this is BEX Asia, the region’s top exhibition showcasing the latest technologies and solutions. Newest policies, technical knowledge, and industry feedback  IBEW also addresses diverse industry needs with targeted offerings such as the Building Engineering Seminar to share the newest policies, technical knowledge, and gathers industry feedback to boost productivity, innovation, and ensure safety; the Future Talent Programme, which inspires young professionals to explore careers in the built environment; the BCA Awards, celebrating excellence and achievements in the industry; dedicated seminars on key topics like CORENET X and sustainable construction; and specialised exhibition areas like the ConTech Exchange Pavilion.  Together, these immersive experiences empower professionals to deepen their expertise, forge new partnerships, and speed up the transition to a resilient, future-ready built environment.

Arctic Wolf, a global pioneer in security operations, announced enhancements to the Arctic Wolf Aurora Platform through new integrations with Microsoft, Oracle, OneLogin, and CyberArk.  As one of the industry’s first open security operations platforms, Aurora is uniquely designed to offer a flexible approach to both data ingestion and core functionality, empowering customers to build and customise their ideal security stack.  These new integrations expand the platform’s openness and flexibility, enabling organisations to address the challenges of fragmented security tools and increasingly dynamic environments. Security teams Security teams today face an overwhelming volume of alerts and data from disconnected tools Security teams today face an overwhelming volume of alerts and data from disconnected tools. The rapid adoption of AI technologies has added further complexity, introducing new attack surfaces that must be secured. This fragmentation creates operational inefficiencies, drives alert fatigue, and makes it harder to identify which threats truly matter. As organisations grow, consolidating and analysing telemetry from endpoints, identity, and cloud services becomes more challenging, often delaying critical response actions and leaving gaps in coverage. Aurora Platform The Aurora Platform tackles these challenges with an open XDR architecture that unifies telemetry across the organisation into a single system of record. With more than 200 technology integrations, it breaks down data silos, streamlines operations, and delivers end-to-end visibility across multiple threat surfaces, enabling security teams to focus on the risks that matter most. Powered by Alpha AI, the platform rapidly correlates massive volumes of telemetry to identify and prioritise high-impact threats. Each event is enriched through AI-driven analysis before reaching Arctic Wolf’s Security Operations Centre, where expert analysts provide swift triage and response. AI automation This powerful combination of AI automation and human expertise cuts through noise, speeds detection, and equips customers with the insight needed to stay ahead of advanced attacks. These new integrations enhance the Aurora Platform by extending visibility, detection, and response capabilities across key technologies, including: Microsoft Defender XDR – A unified enterprise defence suite coordinating detection, investigation, and response across endpoints, identities, email, and cloud applications. Oracle Cloud Guard – A cloud-native solution for identifying and remediating misconfigurations and risky activities within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. OneLogin – A trusted identity platform securely connecting users to applications, providing rapid detection and response to identity-based threats. CyberArk Privileged Access Manager – A secure vaulting and access-management solution that protects privileged credentials using encryption, authentication, and access control within Privileged Threat Analytics (PTA). Customer choice “Openness isn’t just a feature of the Aurora Platform—it’s the foundation that allows us to deliver superior outcomes and offer customer choice,” said Dan Schiappa, president of technology and services, Arctic Wolf. “By supporting a wide range of technologies and enabling rapid integration as customer environments evolve, we help organisations make security work in the real world—on their terms, with their tools, and without compromise.” Endpoint innovation Arctic Wolf is committed to giving customers choice and flexibility in endpoint protection. While continuing to advance its own Aurora Endpoint Security, the company also supports other tools customers may already rely on, including more than a dozen third-party endpoint solutions. The new integration with Microsoft Defender XDR underscores this commitment, ensuring organisations can achieve strong security outcomes regardless of endpoint vendor. This focus on interoperability is matched by ongoing innovation across the Aurora Platform, helping organisations simplify operations and strengthen defenses.

A new entry in the cyber-physical security marketplace making its first public introduction, MERON is demonstrating a groundbreaking new solution for Physical Identity and Access Management (PIAM) branded PIAM+ here at GSX 2024 in booth 1955. MERON is launched by industry veterans Sharad Shekar and Imran Rana with the mission to usher in the next generation of AI-driven PIAM and Security Incident Management that overcomes the longstanding shortfalls of legacy solutions.  Robust PIAM solution Meron is cloud agnostic and runs on cloud infrastructure like Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and IBM MERON PIAM+ leverages the latest advancements in data science, artificial intelligence (AI) and micro-services architecture to deliver a seamlessly integrated, highly versatile and comprehensive PIAM and Incident Management application for on-prem or cloud deployment. Meron is cloud agnostic and runs on cloud infrastructure like Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Alibaba, etc. “During the course of several consultation projects with pioneering companies over the past few years, it became quite clear that organisations with large numbers of employees and/or contracted workers are seeking a better, more robust PIAM solution that goes beyond legacy solutions,” said Sharad Shekhar, Principal at MERON. Creation of MERON technology Shekhar added: “This led to many discussions with longstanding partners and developers around the globe over the course of last two to three years, and the creation of MERON technology last year and public release of our new PIAM+ solution which we are debuting here at GSX 2024.”  MERON PIAM+ delivers a comprehensive approach to managing identities over their entire lifecycle and securing physical access. It fully integrates identity verification, access control, incident management and security policies to ensure only authorised individuals can enter specific areas they have clearance to enter. Innovative PIAM+ solution MERON PIAM+ denotes itself from legacy applications by integrating advanced AI technologies This innovative PIAM+ solution streamlines the process of granting, monitoring, and revoking access, enhancing security and compliance while reducing the risk of unauthorised entry. By centralising and automating these functions, MERON PIAM+ helps organisations protect their assets, ensure regulatory compliance and maintain more secure environments.  MERON PIAM+ distinguishes itself from legacy applications by integrating advanced AI technologies, automation and analytics to provide enhanced security, efficiency, and adaptability. Launch of MERON PIAM+ The unique PIAM solution employs modern microservices-based platform architecture – a revolutionary approach that breaks down applications into smaller, independent services, each focused on a specific function resulting in unlimited scalability with improved system maintainability, support and upgradability. “We have already engaged with several large organisations who have expressed extreme interest in MERON PIAM+, and we are currently collaborating with select high-profile systems integrators with customer bases of large organisations,” continued Shekhar. “We are also now looking to further expand our business network, as well as our team of identity and access management technology and sales experts to further support the launch of MERON PIAM+.”

Many people, quite correctly, point to Salesforce.com—which launched in February of 2000—as the first example of cloud computing. In the years following, the term ‘cloud’ became so popular and was applied to so many products and service offerings, that it became almost meaningless. The result was cloud confusion in the business world and in the media. In one stark example from 2008, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison described news stories about cloud as, ‘complete gibberish.’ Endeavouring to provide some clarity on cloud, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) worked for more than two years to put together ‘The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing,’ which defines the five essential cloud computing characteristics and several ‘as-a-service’ cloud computing models. True cloud applications In the security industry, we talk about ‘True Cloud.’ It’s a term coined by Dean Drako, Founder and Former President and CEO of Barracuda Networks, now Founder and CEO of Eagle Eye Networks, IC Manage and Drako Motors. It refers to software running in the cloud that has the five essential cloud computing characteristics. It refers to software running in the cloud that has the five essential cloud computing characteristics A true cloud system is built from the ground up and is designed to function in the cloud for optimum cost and performance, using the Software as a Service (SaaS) model as defined in the NIST document. Despite the efforts of NIST and others, false cloud marketing persists. A CIO magazine article coined the term ‘cloudwashing’ to describe ‘the practice of taking legacy software and running it on a cloud instance, while calling it ‘true cloud.’ Physical security industry So, it should not be surprising that within the physical security industry, many vendors have been loosely using the term ‘cloud’ to market any kind of software deployment in a public cloud data centre (such as AWS or Azure) as a ‘cloud offering,’ implying some level of conformance to the NIST cloud computing definition and its SaaS model, even though there isn’t. Virtualisation and Orchestration are secrets to popularity of cloud popularity. In early 2022, DataArt reported that 94% of all business workloads are now processed on the cloud (75% is SaaS), and that half of all enterprise businesses expect to become cloud-native in 2022 (i.e., all or nearly all applications will be true cloud). A close look at the cloud computing essential characteristics reveals how and why cloud computing is becoming so popular. Operating system software The essential characteristics of cloud are established by using two software techniques The essential characteristics of cloud are established by using two software techniques: virtualisation and orchestration. Virtualisation is a technique of using software to make virtual computing environments that act like physical hardware, but they are really software representations of the capabilities of underlying hardware. This can be used, for example, to split a single physical server into multiple ‘virtual’ servers, making it appear as though each virtual server's operating system software is running on its own dedicated computer hardware and allowing each operating system to be rebooted and run independently. It can also be used in the opposite way, making the memory and processing resources of multiple computers work together as if they were a single large computer. Individual physical server The main difference between cloud virtualisation and traditional virtualisation is that very large, virtualised pools of computing resources are automatically managed by cloud virtualisation software, whereas traditional virtualisation relies on manual processes to adjust the sharing of computing resources on each individual physical server. Orchestration is the automated configuration and coordination of data centre computer systems Orchestration is the automated configuration, management, and coordination of data centre computer systems, applications, and services – including cloud computing services. Orchestration is used to automate complex IT tasks and workflows by simplifying the management of large-scale computing environments. This is what makes self-service possible for cloud-based systems. The five essentials These are the five essential characteristics that make high-performing scalable cloud systems and applications possible: Resource pooling, as described above, is the most fundamental cloud characteristic. A set of virtualised computing resources are shared by many subscribers whose resource usage is isolated from that of other subscribers, which is referred to as multi-tenancy. On-demand self-service allows security integrators or end-users to expand their subscriptions when they want to change the number of cameras, change a camera’s recorded video resolution, or update the number of days for a camera’s video retention. These selections are made in an application dashboard and don’t require human intervention from the cloud application provider. Broad network access means that all user application functionality is available from anywhere an internet connection is available, analogue or network cameras can be connected via cloud-managed appliances at a facility, and cameras made for connecting directly to the cloud data centre can be placed practically anywhere. Rapid elasticity allows computing resources to be increased or decreased instantly, for example, to maintain sufficient video retention for outdoor cameras, which has traditionally been a challenge even for motion-based recording, in weeks when rain, wind or other activity spikes up the percentage of time motion recording is activated. Measured service meters the resources provided to ensure that each subscriber only uses and pays for the resources allotted by subscription. Video management systems That’s why vendors of all types are eager to market their products and services as cloud The combination of these cloud characteristics means that video management systems are always provisioned correctly, eliminating concerns about system sizing and hitting CPU processing or storage capacity ceilings, and trying to prevent over-provisioning, which raises both fixed costs and variable operational costs in non-true-cloud systems. More than two decades after the first cloud computing systems were launched, the benefits of the cloud are well understood. That’s why vendors of all types are eager to market their products and services as the cloud. However, it’s important to look beyond marketing. Pooling, rapid elasticity, and on-demand self-service are not easy to deploy securely and globally. It takes years of cloud computing engineering experience and a considerable amount of investment to get it right. Will your system provide all of the benefits of a true system to both end-user and integrator? It’s worth taking the time to ask your vendor how the system conforms to the five essential characteristics of a true cloud system.