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Cybersecurity in Manufacturing: Why It’s More Important Now Than Ever

Cybersecurity in Manufacturing: Why It’s More Important Now Than Ever

Manufacturing has always depended on stable operations. That used to mean keeping machines running, maintaining quality, and hitting delivery schedules. Today it also means defending the environment from attacks that can shut down production, corrupt data, or compromise customer trust. Plants are now connected in ways they weren’t ten years ago, and ...
AI to Supercharge Cyber Threats Across Australia

AI to Supercharge Cyber Threats Across Australia

AI is fundamentally changing the economics of cyberattacks in Australia. Adversaries are no longer scaling through the workforce, but rather through automation. Leaders can’t rely on human-paced defences in a machine-paced threat environment.  Here are the top security trends to watch out for in 2026 and beyond: Compressed Attack Timelines Due to ...
Why Fighting Fraud Requires a Real-time Foundation

Why Fighting Fraud Requires a Real-time Foundation

Introduction Australia is fast becoming a hotspot for AI-generated cybercrime. Risks that were once theoretical are now costing businesses millions, even as security teams deploy advanced analytics, AI, and new approaches to keep pace. Consider this case in 2024. A finance employee in Hong Kong wired US$25 million during what appeared to be a ...
‘Tis the Season to Stay Secure: Safeguarding Your Business this Festive Period

‘Tis the Season to Stay Secure: Safeguarding Your Business this Festive Period

This holiday shopping season can make or break many Australian businesses. While consumers are shopping for bargains, attackers are searching for vulnerabilities.  The surge in shopping traffic during Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas sales provides cybercriminals with the perfect cover to launch scams and fraud campaigns, exploiting the rise ...
Australia’s Next Insider Threat Might Be an Algorithm

Australia’s Next Insider Threat Might Be an Algorithm

As Australian organisations race to embed AI tools across human resources, finance and operations, they may be missing a critical security fault line. While disgruntled employees or contractors gone rogue remain a concern, the next major data breach is increasingly likely to come from an algorithm that never intended malice.
Safeguarding Australia’s Most Critical Systems: Why Cybersecurity Is a Sovereignty Issue

Safeguarding Australia’s Most Critical Systems: Why Cybersecurity Is a Sovereignty Issue

Byline from Christopher Rule, General Manager of Defence, Security, and Resilence at GME about why cybersecurity is a sovereignty issue, on the back off ASD's recent Cyber Threat Report and ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess's speech on cyber espionage against critical infrastructure no longer being a hypothetical wartime scenario.
Exploring Security In the Context of AI

Exploring Security In the Context of AI

Insights from the Cisco Live! "Redefining Security in the AI Era" Panel The rapid proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across industries has adroitly shifted the paradigm of cybersecurity. At the recent “Redefining Security in the AI Era” panel held at Cisco Live! 2025, senior leaders from Cisco, and partner organisation Logicalis, met to ...
Cybercrime to Hit $10.5 Trillion by 2025, According to Cybersecurity Ventures

Cybercrime to Hit $10.5 Trillion by 2025, According to Cybersecurity Ventures

According to research from Cybersecurity Ventures, cybercrime is projected to cost the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025 ¹ and attacks, especially ransomware, are now an everyday fact of life. Last week in New York, at a recent press briefing before the official commencement of Commvault Shift, Commvault disclosed that 78% of respondents in the ...
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Closing the Gender Gap: ESET Launches Fifth Year of Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship in Australia

Closing the Gender Gap: ESET Launches Fifth Year of Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship in Australia

SYDNEY - March 6, 2026 - Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, ESET announced the opening of registrations for the ESET Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship in Australia, inviting eligible female students pursuing IT or cybersecurity degrees to apply and join a global network of women shaping the future of the field. 2026 marks the fifth year ...
Check Point Launches a Secure AI Advisory Service to Help Enterprises Govern and Scale AI Transformation

Check Point Launches a Secure AI Advisory Service to Help Enterprises Govern and Scale AI Transformation

New service provides a structured governance, regulatory alignment, and risk mitigation to accelerate responsible AI adoption REDWOOD CITY, CA. March 5, 2026 -- Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader in cyber security solutions, today announced a Secure AI Advisory Service, a new service designed to help ...
Bitdefender Uncovers “Vibeware”: A New AI-Driven APT Attack Strategy Flooding South Asia with Polyglot Implants

Bitdefender Uncovers “Vibeware”: A New AI-Driven APT Attack Strategy Flooding South Asia with Polyglot Implants

SYDNEY, 6 March 2026 – Bitdefender have uncovered a new AI-assisted malware development model dubbed “vibeware”, revealing how a Pakistan-aligned threat actor is industrialising cyberattacks across South Asia by rapidly generating large volumes of disposable malware variants. The activity is linked with medium confidence to APT36, also known as ...
LevelBlue Expands Vulnerability And Exposure Management Capabilities For MSSP And MSP Partners With Tenable

LevelBlue Expands Vulnerability And Exposure Management Capabilities For MSSP And MSP Partners With Tenable

New offerings deliver scalable, Tenable-powered exposure management across the partner ecosystem  March 6, 2026 — LevelBlue, the world’s largest pure-play provider of managed security services, has announced Exposure Management for Partners, featuring expanded vulnerability and exposure management capabilities for managed security service provider ...
Malicious Insider Incidents Rising Faster Than Negligence-based Threats in Australia for the First Time

Malicious Insider Incidents Rising Faster Than Negligence-based Threats in Australia for the First Time

New study reveals disconnect between security awareness and technical controls, as AI-powered attacks accelerate and collaboration tools expand the attack surface
CrowdStrike Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Results

CrowdStrike Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Results

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWD), today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2026, ended January 31, 2026. "FY26 will go down in our history books as CrowdStrike's best year yet," said George Kurtz, CrowdStrike's Founder and CEO. "We achieved $5.25 billion in ending ARR - the fastest and only pure-play ...
Red Hat, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks Collaborate to Deliver an Integrated,  Security-first Foundation for AI-native Telecommunications

Red Hat, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks Collaborate to Deliver an Integrated, Security-first Foundation for AI-native Telecommunications

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA and Palo Alto Networks to deliver an integrated, security-first foundation for AI-native telecommunications. AI-driven network operations are increasingly becoming central to how service providers manage network complexity, optimise ...
ANZ Organisations Struggle to Safeguard Their Data, Wasabi’s 2026 Cloud Storage Index Finds

ANZ Organisations Struggle to Safeguard Their Data, Wasabi’s 2026 Cloud Storage Index Finds

Wasabi Technologies has today unveiled the findings of its fourth annual Wasabi Global Cloud Storage Index, developed in collaboration with Vanson Bourne. With insights from 1,700 business and IT respondents globally, including 250 Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) decision-makers, the survey spotlights cloud data security challenges, as well as other ...
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