by Morey Haber | Jul 1, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Identity & Access Management, Security Operations
The Australian Government’s newly released PSPF Policy Advisory 001-2026 (26/05/2026), Cyber Security Readiness in the Frontier AI Era, represents a significant step forward for national cybersecurity guidance. The advisory recognises a reality that many security...
by Lee Rossey | Jun 30, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Data Security, Offensive Security, Security Operations
For years, legacy cybersecurity incumbents have leveraged vast proprietary datasets into unassailable competitive positions and significant market capitalizations. Conventional wisdom held that the more comprehensive a firm’s real-world incident and telemetry data,...
by Syam Nair | Jun 26, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Security, Data Management
If you caught my keynote at NetApp INSIGHT, you heard me say it loud and clear: NetApp’s data platform is the only hyperscaler-neutral, hypervisor-neutral data platform in the world. That’s not just a tagline — it’s a foundational advantage with data, clouds, and the...
by Steve Hunter | Jun 25, 2026 | Cyber Resilience, Reports & Predictions, Threat Intelligence
Maintaining an accurate understanding of the IT assets that exist across an organisation’s environment remains one of the most fundamental challenges in cybersecurity. This may sound like a basic security problem, but it continues to undermine security programs...
by Andrew Lai | Jun 25, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Data Security, Leadership, Security Operations
Introduction Go to any get-together with friends and the conversation eventually turns to AI. People talk about the tool they have been using, and more often than not it is not the one their employer has approved. It is the one running on their personal account, on...
by Vincent Lavergne | Jun 25, 2026 | Application Security, Artificial Intelligence, Data Security, Investment
The Australian Government’s recent $7 billion commitment to AI infrastructure is the kind of headline-grabbing investment that commands attention, reassures industry, and sends a strong message to the rest of the world. It’s a gamechanger in positioning Australia as a...
by Dean Saunders | Jun 21, 2026 | Cyber Resilience, Leadership, OSINT, Security Operations
Every organisation sits atop a vast field of open information: public records, digital footprints, market signals and the endless churn of online discourse. The challenge isn’t access anymore, but discernment. Those who can turn open data into strategic foresight hold...
by Daniel Broad | Jun 18, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Identity & Access Management, Security Operations
Introduction Recent developments in agent-based AI frameworks such as OpenClaw have accelerated the shift from AI as a tool to AI as an autonomous operator inside enterprise environments, capable of executing workflows, interacting with enterprise systems and making...
by Marcus Mossberger | Jun 18, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Leadership, Work & Careers
Introduction While most investors would agree that AI presents the opportunity of a lifetime, the journey will vary greatly from one organization to the next despite having access to the same technology. Too many of these organizations view AI as simply a replacement...
by Dean Saunders | Jun 16, 2026 | Cyber Resilience, Data Management, Data Security, Security Operations
Digital transformation is delivering extraordinary opportunities but is also creating a security paradox. Every new cloud workload, remote device and third-party tool adds power to the business while quietly enlarging the organisation’s attack surface. The more...
by Timothy Wedande | Jun 11, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Identity & Access Management
The rapid uptake of artificial intelligence across enterprises has created a new fault line in cybersecurity and exposed a widening gap between innovation and governance. As organisations within the Asia Pacific and Japan region race to deploy autonomous agents and AI...
by Dean Saunders | Jun 9, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Data Security, Leadership, Security Operations
Artificial intelligence has rapidly evolved from isolated proofs and concepts to a defining pillar of enterprise strategy. Across Australia, leaders are moving beyond experimentation and into operational deployment, but achieving mixed success. According to the 2025...
by Dean Saunders | Jun 1, 2026 | Cloud Security, Compliance & Legal, Data Management, Data Security, Sovereignty
Global enterprises are under mounting pressure to rethink how and where they manage data. Cross-border transfers, cloud adoption and shifting regulatory regimes elevates data sovereignty from a niche legal concern into a boardroom priority. Australia’s cloud-native...
by Itzik Swissa | May 26, 2026 | Application Security, Artificial Intelligence
Across Australia, the acceleration of AI-assisted and automated software development has created increased risk to the software supply chain. According to the 2024-25 Australian Annual Cyber Threat report, cyber incidents and malicious activity are increasing...
by Gert Grammel | May 25, 2026 | Crypto, Blockchain, and Quantum, Encryption & Cipher
No quantum computer exists today that can break modern encryption. Yet the pressure on enterprises and government agencies to future-proof their cryptography for a potential post-quantum era is mounting. The reason: no one knows exactly when “Q-Day” will...
by Alex Coates | May 22, 2026 | Investment, Learning & Education, Work & Careers
Introduction Australia’s cybersecurity industry has long operated on the assumption that better tools mean less vulnerability. Better threat detection, better endpoint protection, better monitoring. Yet, every year, the threat landscape widens faster than our defences...
by Raymond Schippers | May 20, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Leadership, Security Operations, Threat Intelligence
The emergence of ‘Mythos’ is rapidly becoming one of the most discussed developments in cyber security circles, and for good reason. Positioned as a powerful new AI-driven capability, Mythos is less a conventional tool and more an accelerator of cyber offence,...
by Mohamed Ibrahim | May 19, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Governance & Risk, Leadership
Cybersecurity leaders are sitting on more data than ever, yet many organisations remain unable to translate it into decisions that resonate at board level. The core issue is not data scarcity, but the difficulty of converting technical signals into meaningful...
by Agnidipta Sarkar | May 19, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Leadership, Microsegmentation, Security Operations, Zero Trust
The next cyberattack could be human, or a human engineering an AI from the outside, or an AI engineered from the inside. It could be a zero-day attack or a known weakness that was never mitigated. It could be a cyberattack, a collective, a lone warrior, or a...
by Andrew Foo | May 12, 2026 | ANZ, Artificial Intelligence, Leadership, Security Operations
Introduction Senior data leaders are being asked to navigate a level of complexity that feels new, even by recent standards. Across Australia, organisations are under pressure to turn AI ambition into real outcomes, often while working with fragile data foundations...
by James Ross | May 12, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Identity & Access Management, Security Operations
Artificial intelligence (AI) is quietly, and in many cases invisibly, embedding itself into many organisations – and often without formal oversight. For chief information security officers (CISOs), this presents a profound shift in risk, and one that traditional...
by Nam Lam | May 7, 2026 | ANZ, Identity & Access Management, Leadership, Physical Security
Most Australian enterprises believe they have identity security under control. Frameworks are in place, policies are documented, and zero trust strategies feature prominently in boardroom presentations and annual reports. On paper, it looks robust. In practice, many...
by Zak Menegazzi | May 7, 2026 | Application Security, Artificial Intelligence, Exposure Management
Introduction The era of “vibe coding” is officially here, and Asia Pacific is central to this trend, already hosting a rising number of vibe coding start-ups. AI coding has accelerated software delivery to a breakneck pace, but this velocity has come with...
by Morey Haber | May 7, 2026 | Cyber Resilience, Identity & Access Management, Leadership, Security Operations
Introduction During the past decade, one lesson has become unmistakably clear for enterprise leaders: security begins and ends with identity. As organisations continue to digitise operations, shift workloads to the cloud, and experiment with AI-driven automation,...
by Nam Lam | May 1, 2026 | Application Security, Identity & Access Management, Leadership, Security Operations
Why the Illusion of Control Is Failing Australian Identity Security Programmes Most Australian enterprises believe they have identity security under control. Frameworks are in place, policies are documented, and zero trust strategies feature prominently in boardroom...
by Pouya Ghotbi | May 1, 2026 | Exposure Management, Security Operations
As geopolitical tensions continue to ripple across global markets, cyber activity is following a predictable and increasingly dangerous pattern. Spikes in scanning, probing, and exploitation attempts often occur within hours of international instability, placing...
by Blackberry | Apr 29, 2026 | Encryption & Cipher, Identity & Access Management, Secure Communications, Security Operations
The digital battle lines are being redrawn. Cyber threats are no longer confined to hacked servers or ransomware incidents affecting corporate networks. They have migrated to the devices in our hands and pockets. Mobile espionage is accelerating in speed, scope, and...
by Hai Nakash | Apr 29, 2026 | Banking & Finance, Continuous Business, Crypto, Blockchain, and Quantum
Introduction For years, digital assets have been spoken about in extremes. Either as the future of finance, or as a space filled with risk and uncertainty. In my view, the truth sits somewhere in the middle. Over the past decade, digital assets have delivered...
by Blackberry | Apr 26, 2026 | Encryption & Cipher, Europe and Central Asia, Government & Policy, Identity & Access Management, Secure Communications, Security Operations
Government in Constant Motion Federal government work now extends beyond offices to secure facilities, international forums, temporary work sites and even on the daily commute. Mobility has shifted from a supporting function into a core pillar of daily operations...
by Pieter Danhieux | Apr 23, 2026 | Application Security, Cyber Resilience
Introduction A quarter of a century after the Agile Manifesto reshaped the software industry, its legacy is no longer in question. The methodology’s emphasis on speed, adaptability and user-centric design helped redefine how organisations build and deliver technology,...
by Blackberry | Apr 19, 2026 | Crypto, Blockchain, and Quantum, Cyber Resilience, Encryption & Cipher, Secure Communications, Security Operations
When a single compromised communication can disrupt governments, expose intelligence operations, or derail emergency responses, the question isn’t whether your organization has secure communications. Rather, it’s whether your communications tools are certified...
by Scott Hesford | Apr 17, 2026 | Continuous Business, Identity & Access Management, Leadership, Security Operations
In office buildings around the world, the instruction is clear and universally understood: in case of fire, break glass. The act is deliberate, visible and reserved for emergencies only. In cybersecurity, however, the equivalent mechanism, the so-called “break glass...
by Blackberry | Apr 16, 2026 | Encryption & Cipher, Security Operations, Threat Intelligence
The most dangerous attacks against secure communications don’t decrypt your messages. They compromise the device before encryption occurs — then watch every keystroke, every screen, and every conversation in plaintext. CVE-2026-21385 is the latest documented...
by John Deeb | Apr 16, 2026 | Data Management, Data Security, Governance & Risk, Identity & Access Management
Introduction Security and governance are no longer back-office concerns, and in Australia, the stakes have never been higher. After a record 1,113 notifiable data breaches in 2024, the OAIC logged more than 530 additional breaches in the first half of 2025, with...
by Sean Deuby | Apr 15, 2026 | Identity & Access Management, Security Operations
The sixth Identity Management Day highlights the evolving nature of identity. The meteoric rise of AI in general and its impact on nonhuman identities (NHIs) has focused attention on identity security as never before. But in the long view, it simply highlights the...
by Blackberry | Apr 13, 2026 | Encryption & Cipher, Executive Communication, Personal Security, Secure Communications
Dutch intelligence has confirmed what enterprise security architects have long understood: consumer-grade messaging apps, regardless of their encryption implementation, are structurally unfit for sensitive government and military communications. The reason is not...
by Peter Cardassis | Apr 13, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Government & Policy
Introduction Logicalis Australia is calling for a shift in how Australia approaches artificial intelligence (AI), warning that the country risks missing a major global opportunity if it continues to focus primarily on policy and access to compute rather than...
by David Hope | Apr 8, 2026 | National Security, Network Security, Physical Security, Security Operations
Introduction In Australia, the intensity of our airport and aviation security is strangely famous worldwide. It even has its own reality television show; Border Security – Australia’s Front Line. The scene is always similar: drug sniffing dogs, x-ray machines and...
by Rochelle Cervantes | Apr 3, 2026 | Application Security, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Security, Cyber Resilience
The Rise of Stealth Impact Attacks In the past year, cyberattacks have been increasingly focused on “stealth impact”, quietly degrading performance, inflating cloud and AI costs, and eroding revenue over time. This includes tactics such as mass creation of fake...
by MJ Robotham | Apr 2, 2026 | Risk Management, Security Operations
Introduction Australian organisations’ technological maturity has grown exponentially in recent years. Hybrid work is the standard, cloud adoption is accelerating, and new innovations keep emerging to provide a productivity and competitive edge. What were once...
by Kumar Mitra | Apr 2, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Governance & Risk, Leadership
Introduction Conversations with CIOs across Australian industries tell a consistent story. AI has decisively moved beyond pilots and proofs of concept. The question is no longer whether AI works, but whether it delivers measurable returns while operating within clear...
by James Greenwood | Apr 2, 2026 | Cyber Resilience, Leadership, Security Operations
Introduction Australian organisations are not taking resilience seriously enough. According to BDO’s Tectonic States report, only 62 per cent of Australian business leaders ranked resilience as their top organisational priority, this is compared to 78 per cent of...
by Kavya Shastry | Apr 2, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Leadership, Risk Management, Security Operations
Introduction As the Lunar New Year ushers in a new cycle of The Horse, we can look to the traits of the traditional Chinese zodiac, which provide an admirable framework for cybersecurity objectives. Horses are commonly known for unbridled speed, agility, and making...
by Harshvendra Soin | Mar 30, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Executive Communication, Governance & Risk
In the Asia, Pacific and Japan (APJ) region, one of the biggest challenges for businesses isn’t technology, it’s communication. The region spans more than 23 major languages, multiple dialects and profoundly different business cultures. Translating messages correctly...
by Christoph Nagy | Mar 18, 2026 | Application Security
Any enterprise is subject to cyberattacks. The details about incidents concerning critical enterprise applications like SAP S/4HANA are often internal, and hence, public awareness is not up to the mark of malware and phishing. As the attacks become more sophisticated,...
by Daniel Sutherland | Mar 17, 2026 | Cyber Resilience, Security Operations
Digital trust is entering a new phase, and on March 15, 2026, a policy change will take effect that reshapes how organisations approach security. In 2025, the CA/Browser Forum, a consortium of browser vendors and certificate authorities, approved revisions to public...
by Mathieu Chevalier | Mar 13, 2026 | Identity & Access Management, Physical Security
Access control has long been treated as a function of facilities teams, focused on unlocking and locking doors. As digital systems and physical spaces become more interconnected, that point of view needs to be rethought. Access control is now playing an added role to...
by Lee Shelford | Mar 13, 2026 | Physical Security, Security Operations
In a security operations centre, operators are often asked to review hours of video surveillance footage to understand incidents that lasted only minutes. Investigations typically involve switching between camera views, aligning timelines, and manually scanning...
