Manila, Philippines – September 24, 2025 – Synology underscored the growing importance of robust data protection strategies in today’s fast-changing digital landscape during its participation as a Gold Sponsor at the AIBP Summit Philippines 2025. With AI accelerating digital transformation across industries, businesses in the Philippines are facing increasing challenges in safeguarding sensitive information, ensuring compliance, and maintaining operational continuity. In the 2024 Philippine Threat Landscape Report, it reveals that evolving cyber threats and scam activities have primarily targeted the sectors of finance, government, education, and telecommunications, prompting the urgency to implement effective technical measures and explore technological solutions.
Building Smarter IT Foundations for the AI Era
The rapid adoption of AI is reshaping how businesses in the Philippines operate—driving innovation, but also creating unprecedented volumes of data that must be stored, managed, and protected. With the market for AI projected to reach $3.5 billion in the Philippines by 2030, organizations face the dual challenge of enabling innovation while meeting global standards for data privacy and cybersecurity.
As organizations adapt to this new reality, many are realizing that scalable and secure IT foundations are no longer optional, but essential for long-term growth. Synology has been working with businesses across the region to simplify IT operations through solutions that integrate storage, backup, and data management into a unified ecosystem, ensuring that innovation can thrive on a resilient and future-ready infrastructure.
Enhancing Data Protection Strategies in the Age of AI
Alongside these opportunities, AI adoption also introduces heightened risks as ransomware attacks become more sophisticated, regulatory demands grow more complex, and the cost of downtime increases. These growing challenges highlight why cyber resilience has become essential—not only for critical services like banking, telecommunications, and healthcare, but also for businesses that must safeguard customer and investor confidence. Glaring incidents include the central bank’s (Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas) estimated figure of $5.82 billion lost by supervised financial institutions in 2024 due to cyber incidents; and the loss of 750 gigabytes of sensitive information due to a cyber-attack on the country’s state-run health insurance agency.
For businesses, the ability to not only safeguard data but also recover it swiftly, has become central to sustaining digital growth. This shift has prompted organizations to explore modern approaches that combine resilience with operational simplicity. Synology ActiveProtect solution is developed with these needs in mind, helping businesses strengthen their protection strategies by centralizing control, safeguarding critical workloads, and enabling rapid recovery when disruptions occur.
“Businesses across the Philippines are embracing digital transformation at a rapid pace, but with this progress comes heightened responsibility to protect data,” said Claire Huang, Synology’s Country Manager for the Philippines. “Our mission is to help organizations build resilient IT strategies that allow them to innovate without fear, equipping IT teams with scalable and cost-efficient tools to safeguard data, ensure continuity, and stay ahead in an AI-driven world.”
By engaging with industry leaders at the AIBP Summit, Synology reinforced its commitment to supporting Philippine businesses with future-ready data protection solutions, helping them overcome immediate IT challenges while unlocking new opportunities for sustainable growth.
