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What Makes You Board Ready?

What Makes You Board Ready?

Discover why serving on a corporate board might be more than just a career milestone. Dr. Keith Dorsey challenges conventional thinking, urging reflection and strategic planning. Learn what boards now seek: unique skills and genuine purpose. Are you ready to add real value?
The Cybersecurity Professionalisation Debate, Are We at a Crossroads?

The Cybersecurity Professionalisation Debate, Are We at a Crossroads?

The annual AUSCERT conference, a major gathering for cybersecurity professionals, industry leaders, and academics, unfolded last week at the Star Casino on the sunny Gold Coast. AUSCERT’s General Manager, Ivano Bongiovanni, spoke with me about the heated debate around professionalising the field. Traditionally, cybersecurity has been seen as a ...
Why Australian Boards Need to Rethink Risk in the Age of AI

Why Australian Boards Need to Rethink Risk in the Age of AI

The nature of corporate risk in Australia is evolving rapidly at a strategic, reputational, and liability level. As the next five years shape up to be even more disruptive in the world of risk management, Australian boards need to begin paying swift attention not only to how artificial intelligence (AI) is going to reshape the risk environment itself, ...
Why Deepfakes Are a Growing Threat to Financial Services

Why Deepfakes Are a Growing Threat to Financial Services

To defend against deepfakes, financial institutions must treat identity and access management (IAM) as strategic infrastructure, not just a compliance function
Preventing AI-Driven Cyberattacks in Healthcare Practices

Preventing AI-Driven Cyberattacks in Healthcare Practices

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing healthcare by streamlining patient management and optimizing operations, making processes faster and more efficient. However, as practices adopt these advancements, cybercriminals are leveraging AI to exploit vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed, leading to an alarming rise in the frequency and scale of ...
The Rise of Digital Minions and How Algorithms Are Complicating Everyday Life

The Rise of Digital Minions and How Algorithms Are Complicating Everyday Life

Robots that escape from police, algorithms that unwittingly conspire to create $23 million price tags, and chatbots whose creative output rivals that of their human creators; these are no longer far-off hypotheticals. AI expert Marek Kowalkiewicz, at the recent AUSCERT conference, shared his research and learning in this space. Kowalkiewicz, who coined ...
Cybersecurity Leader Louise Hanna Urges Organisations to Rethink Incident Response

Cybersecurity Leader Louise Hanna Urges Organisations to Rethink Incident Response

Louise Hanna has witnessed and sailed many seas towards the evolution of cybersecurity from the inside out. Now General Manager at Excite Cyber, Hanna recently shared insights at AUSCERT’s conference on the Gold Coast with industry peers, reflecting on pivotal moments and offering fresh guidance for organisations. Hanna’s journey began on the ...
Shadow Data Is the New Insider Threat: What CISOs Overlook in SaaS Sprawl

Shadow Data Is the New Insider Threat: What CISOs Overlook in SaaS Sprawl

Companies maintain internal databases for sensitive information. However, sometimes employees want to take work home or believe it is easier to save files on their systems. These seemingly minor and understandable oversights introduce a new and growing threat to all industries: Shadow Data. Typical security protocols do not address these scenarios, ...
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Arctic Wolf Threat Report Highlights 11x Growth in Data Extortion Incidents and Continued Dominance of Ransomware

Arctic Wolf Threat Report Highlights 11x Growth in Data Extortion Incidents and Continued Dominance of Ransomware

New insights reveal the pivot to data-only extortion, attacker abuse of remote access tools, and how early detection is reshaping ransomware outcomes
New Report Finds APAC Enterprises Facing Agentic AI Technical Challeneges

New Report Finds APAC Enterprises Facing Agentic AI Technical Challeneges

Sydney, 18 February 2026 - Dynatrace, the leading AI-powered observability platform, has today released the regional findings of The Pulse of Agentic AI 2026. The inaugural survey of 919 senior global leaders responsible for agentic AI implementation reveals that enterprises are not stalling because they doubt AI, but because they cannot yet ...
Check Point Software Earns Leader & Fast Mover Position in GigaOm Radar for Cloud Network Security

Check Point Software Earns Leader & Fast Mover Position in GigaOm Radar for Cloud Network Security

Analyst firm highlights Check Point’s prevention‑first architecture, strong ecosystem integrations, unified cloud security platform, and continued pace of innovation REDWOOD CITY, CA. February 17, 2026 -- Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader of cyber security solutions, today announced that it has been ...
LummaStealer Is Back at Scale as Fake CAPTCHA Campaigns Drive Global Resurgence

LummaStealer Is Back at Scale as Fake CAPTCHA Campaigns Drive Global Resurgence

Bitdefender researchers have identified a significant resurgence of one of the world’s most prolific information-stealing malware operations, less than a year after a major global law enforcement action disrupted more than 2,300 of its command-and-control domains. Despite the 2025 takedown effort, LummaStealer was not dismantled. Instead, the ...
Macquarie Tech Appoints Kate Vidgen as Independent Non-Executive Director

Macquarie Tech Appoints Kate Vidgen as Independent Non-Executive Director

Macquarie Technology Group (ASX: MAQ) has announced Kate Vidgen will join the Company’s board as an Independent Non-executive Director following the release of the Company’s FY26 half-year results. Kate will bring more than 30 years’ experience to the company as a senior finance executive and non-executive director with a demonstrated history of ...
Kyndryl Unveils Agentic AI Workflow Governance for Trusted Deployment of Mission‑Critical AI Agents

Kyndryl Unveils Agentic AI Workflow Governance for Trusted Deployment of Mission‑Critical AI Agents

Policy as code capability transforms compliance in regulated agentic AI workflows | Automated policy enforcement establishes guardrails, codifies compliance and boosts transparency across enterprise operations
Palo Alto Networks Completes Acquisition of CyberArk to Secure the AI Era

Palo Alto Networks Completes Acquisition of CyberArk to Secure the AI Era

Adds the leading platform that delivers unified security for human, machine and agentic identity.
Riverbed Study Finds 92% of Decision Makers in the Financial Services Industry Agree That Improving Data Quality Is Critical to AI Success 

Riverbed Study Finds 92% of Decision Makers in the Financial Services Industry Agree That Improving Data Quality Is Critical to AI Success 

Financial Services organisations lead with a strong ROI on AIOps initiatives but only 12% have AI projects fully deployed enterprise-wide, and a substantial 62% still remain in pilot or development stages 
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