First established in 2010, Canon Think Big brings together business leaders, technology specialists and industry executives through keynote sessions, cross-sector panels and an immersive 360° Security Showcase.
This year’s theme, Securing Tomorrow: Leadership. Innovation. Resilience., reflects a shift in the cybersecurity conversation from merely preventing attacks to ensuring that businesses can continue operating when something does go wrong.
For businesses, a breach can now interrupt operations, erode customer trust and expose weaknesses across everything from payments to remote work. A company can invest heavily in firewalls and endpoint protection, but modern networks are often spread across offices, cloud platforms, remote devices and third-party services. The perimeter, in other words, is no longer a neat fence around the building. It is closer to a web, and every new connection creates another place that needs watching.
“In an era defined by an accelerating threat landscape and complex digital risks, enterprise survival hinges on shifting from reactive defence to proactive resilience, making robust cybersecurity foundations a core prerequisite for sustainable business growth.”
Too Kok Yong, Head of Singapore Operations Group at Canon Singapore
Canon is using the event to highlight its cybersecurity offering, which includes 24/7 Managed Detection and Response, cyber awareness training and secured remote endpoints. The emphasis is not simply on stopping an attack at the door, but on detecting threats quickly, maintaining visibility across systems and ensuring that an organisation can respond before disruption spreads.
The problem is often visibility
New research commissioned by cybersecurity company ESET and conducted by Blackbox Research provides some context for that approach.
The study surveyed 400 cybersecurity decision-makers in Singapore during the second quarter of 2026. Among respondents, sophisticated phishing tactics were cited by 36 per cent as a leading cause of cybersecurity incidents, while IT visibility gaps and internal skills shortages each stood at 34 per cent.
Delayed detection was identified by 55 per cent of respondents as the biggest challenge when containing or remediating an incident, followed by a lack of visibility across environments at 49 per cent and poor coordination between teams at 44 per cent.
These figures illustrate an uncomfortable truth about modern cybersecurity. The problem is not always that organisations fail to install protection. Sometimes, they simply do not see the problem quickly enough.
“The real challenge is not only preventing attacks, but detecting and containing them before they disrupt operations, reputation and trust.”
Parvinder Walia, President of the APAC region at ESET
That is where Managed Detection and Response, or MDR, comes into the picture. Rather than relying solely on automated tools, MDR combines continuous monitoring with human security expertise, allowing suspicious activity to be investigated and acted upon around the clock.
Trust becomes a business metric
Think Big 2026 also places considerable emphasis on digital trust. One of the main panel discussions, Secure Velocity: Building Business Resilience, brings together executives from NETS, Eurokars Group and Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group to examine how organisations can move quickly with digital transformation without weakening security or customer confidence.
Another session, The Invisible Shield: Redefining Digital Trust, sees ESET’s Parvinder Walia drawing on the company’s latest threat intelligence research, while The Trust Dividend: Winning With Cybersecurity brings together representatives from Google APAC, Vanguard Healthcare and the Centre for Cybersecurity to discuss how trust can support organisational agility rather than simply act as another compliance requirement.
Security made tangible
The event’s 360° Security Showcase takes that discussion out of the conference room and into more practical demonstrations. The showcase covers five areas, beginning with secure print and scanning.
The cybersecurity zone focuses on AI-powered MDR, ESET Cyber Awareness Training and secured VAIO remote-work endpoints. Elsewhere, Canon is also showcasing managed services for business continuity and physical workplace security, including biometric access controls and visitor verification systems.
Taken together, the message is that cybersecurity does not begin and end with antivirus software. It stretches across devices, documents, people, networks and even the front door.
Different industries, same problem
The speakers involved also illustrate how broadly the resilience problem now cuts across industries.
Lawrence Chan, Group CEO of NETS, said secure and highly available payment infrastructure has become a basic expectation for companies and consumers alike. Businesses need systems capable of safeguarding transactions across both physical and digital touchpoints while remaining reliably available.
Eurokars Group Executive Director Charmain Kwee, meanwhile, highlighted the balance between automation and customer relationships as the automotive industry becomes increasingly digital. “Automation and digitalisation are a necessity, but you can never automate the human touch,” she said, adding that maintaining customer trust remains a priority even as businesses adapt.
In healthcare, the consequences are even more immediate. Alvin Ang Jian Ming, Head of IT, Cybersecurity and IT Transformation at Vanguard Healthcare, said digital resilience is directly tied to patient trust and continuity of care, and that cybersecurity infrastructure should support front-line operations rather than slow them down.
From protection to resilience
Cybersecurity used to be discussed in terms of keeping attackers out. Today, the more realistic objective is to assume that threats will keep evolving and build organisations capable of detecting, containing and recovering from them without losing momentum.
It is not particularly glamorous work. Much of resilience comes from visibility, clear processes, trained employees and systems that behave predictably when something goes wrong. But that is rather the point.
The strongest security is often the sort nobody notices because the business continues to function normally. For organisations navigating AI, cloud services and increasingly connected workplaces, keeping things boring when trouble arrives may be one of the most valuable capabilities of all.
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