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The Countdown to Quantum Has Begun

The Countdown to Quantum Has Begun

How New Certificate Lifecycle Standards Are Set to Prepare the Business Landscape for a Quantum Ready Future
Five Telecom Habits Of Smart Small Businesses

Five Telecom Habits Of Smart Small Businesses

Introduction Small businesses often grow quickly, but if their telecommunications setup doesn’t support this growth, productivity and service can suffer. With a few strategic habits, SMEs can avoid tech growing pains. Here are the top telecom habits that the savviest Australian small businesses adopt early on. Consolidate Where It Makes Sense It’s ...
Tool Sprawl a Silent Sabotage?

Tool Sprawl a Silent Sabotage?

Sunny Rao, SVP Asia Pacific at JFrog recently cites how Australia and New Zealand tech leaders are confronting their own ‘broken’ software supply chains. Ask an enterprise security leader what really keeps them up at night, and the answer is rarely that easy, unfortunately. For Rao, the narrative isn’t one of failure, but the evolution. “We are ...
Rethinking The Office Phone: Why Cloud PBX Is The Future For SMBs

Rethinking The Office Phone: Why Cloud PBX Is The Future For SMBs

Overview For many small to medium-sized enterprises (SMBs), the office phone system can be treated as a set-and-forget utility. Yet business needs have changed, particularly with the advent of hybrid work and rising customer service expectations, and traditional phone setups are starting to show their age.  Cloud-based PBX (Private Branch Exchange) ...
The Scattered Spider, Airline Attacks and How to Be Breach Ready!

The Scattered Spider, Airline Attacks and How to Be Breach Ready!

Introduction On July 2, 2025, Qantas, Australia's flagship airline, disclosed a cyberattack that compromised the personal information of up to six million customers, first detected on June 30, 2025. Touted as one of the most significant data breaches in Australia's recent history, the attack is suspected to be the work of the notorious Scattered ...
Enough with the Optics: It is Time for Cyber Accountability, Not Publicity Stunts

Enough with the Optics: It is Time for Cyber Accountability, Not Publicity Stunts

Summary Following the recent Qantas data breach, which once again exposes our national cybersecurity vulnerabilities, we are met with press releases and performative outrage from prominent government officials. The breach reveals a fundamental issue that no amount of media statements or vague reassurances can hide. Despite the hype surrounding the ...
Why Does Recovery Take So Long? But It Doesn’t Have To

Why Does Recovery Take So Long? But It Doesn’t Have To

Recently, Commvault released the State of Data Readiness Report, which surveyed more than 400 leaders from across Australia and New Zealand. Executives believe their companies must recover within 24-48 hours. IT and security teams estimate five to seven days if they are to be realistic. The actual global average is about 24 days offline. I sat down ...
NBN Or Mobile Broadband? How To Choose The Right Business Internet Setup

NBN Or Mobile Broadband? How To Choose The Right Business Internet Setup

Introduction Setting up internet for your business is not a one size fits all exercise. Whether you're running a solo consultancy, managing a busy retail outlet, or coordinating a remote team, choosing between NBN and mobile broadband can significantly impact your daily operations. With digital connectivity now critical for everything from cloud ...
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Kyndryl Partners with Microsoft to Launch the Kyndryl Microsoft Acceleration Hub to Drive Customer Innovation and Digital Transformation

Kyndryl Partners with Microsoft to Launch the Kyndryl Microsoft Acceleration Hub to Drive Customer Innovation and Digital Transformation

New Hub combines Kyndryl Consult expertise with Microsoft technologies to enable AI-first consulting capabilities and engagements
Semperis 2025 Purple Knight Report Reveals Persistent Security Gaps in Hybrid Active Directory and Entra ID Environments

Semperis 2025 Purple Knight Report Reveals Persistent Security Gaps in Hybrid Active Directory and Entra ID Environments

2025 Purple Knight Report Reveals Persistent Security Gaps in Hybrid Active Directory and Entra ID Environments The new report uncovers identity security risks, low initial assessment scores, and urgent need for remediation across Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta—but substantial score improvements for users applying Purple Knight’s expert ...
Crypto Wallets Continue to be Drained in Elaborate Social Media Scam

Crypto Wallets Continue to be Drained in Elaborate Social Media Scam

Overview Continued research by Darktrace has revealed that cryptocurrency users are being targeted by threat actors in an elaborate social engineering scheme that continues to evolve. In December 2024, Cado Security Labs detailed a campaign targeting Web 3 employees in the Meeten campaign. The campaign included threat actors setting up meeting ...
Latest DigiCert Survey Finds Manual Processes Expose Organisations to Outages, Compliance Failures, and Six-Figure Losses as Certificate Volumes Climb

Latest DigiCert Survey Finds Manual Processes Expose Organisations to Outages, Compliance Failures, and Six-Figure Losses as Certificate Volumes Climb

Research highlights certificate mismanagement is draining enterprise resources and eroding digital trust
Operational Technology Cybersecurity Risk Elevates Within Executive Leadership Ranks

Operational Technology Cybersecurity Risk Elevates Within Executive Leadership Ranks

More than half (52 per cent) of organisations report that the chief information security officer/chief security officer is responsible for operational technology, up from 16 per cent in 2022, while 95 per cent of organisations report that the C-suite is responsible for operational technology, up from 41 per cent in 2022 
Bitdefender Forges Partnership With Creators Guild of America

Bitdefender Forges Partnership With Creators Guild of America

Bitdefender has announced a strategic partnership with the Creators Guild of America to provide digital security solutions tailored for online content creators. The partnership aims to raise awareness of the critical need for creators to protect their digital identities, content, and personal information from increasingly sophisticated and costly cyber ...
Tenable Research Warns of Critical AI Tool Vulnerability That Requires Immediate Attention [CVE-2025-49596]

Tenable Research Warns of Critical AI Tool Vulnerability That Requires Immediate Attention [CVE-2025-49596]

Tenable Research has identified a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-49596) in Anthropic's widely adopted MCP Inspector, an open-source tool crucial for AI development. With a CVSS score of 9.4, this flaw leverages default, insecure configurations, leaving organisations exposed by design. MCP Inspector is a popular tool with over ...
S&P 500 fetches Datadog

S&P 500 fetches Datadog

NASDAQ-listed monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, Datadog, has announced its inclusion on the S&P 500 Index, effective prior to the opening of trading today. The S&P 500 is widely regarded as the best single gauge of large-cap U.S. equities, tracking the stock performance of 500 leading US companies. Datadog’s addition ...
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