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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, ...
Smartsheet Achieves 260%+ Customer Growth in Australia as Business Booms Across Asia-Pacific and Japan

Smartsheet Achieves 260%+ Customer Growth in Australia as Business Booms Across Asia-Pacific and Japan

Smartsheet has recorded over 260% customer growth in Australia, driven by surging demand across Asia-Pacific and Japan. The company’s expansion reflects strong regional adoption of its enterprise work management platform, with organisations increasingly turning to Smartsheet to drive productivity, visibility, and collaboration at scale.
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Firmus Technologies Group Selects VAST AI Operating System to Power Sovereign, Energy-Efficient AI Factories in Asia Pacific

Firmus Technologies Group Selects VAST AI Operating System to Power Sovereign, Energy-Efficient AI Factories in Asia Pacific

VAST Data today announced that Firmus Technologies Group, an AI infrastructure specialist founded in Australia with operations across Asia Pacific, has selected the VAST AI Operating System as a foundational data layer for its next generation of sovereign, energy-efficient AI factories.   Firmus, a NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP), is building ...
2026 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report: AI Accelerates Adversaries and Reshapes the Attack Surface

2026 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report: AI Accelerates Adversaries and Reshapes the Attack Surface

AI-enabled attacks surge 89% as breakout time falls to 29 minutes; AI tools and development platforms are actively exploited
Exabeam Research: AI Accountability Becomes the New Mandate as Cybersecurity Economics Shift

Exabeam Research: AI Accountability Becomes the New Mandate as Cybersecurity Economics Shift

95% of organisations are increasing cybersecurity budgets in 2026 with AI as the top spending driver despite being the hardest investment to justify BROOMFIELD, Colo. – February 24, 2026 – Exabeam, a global leader in intelligence and automation that powers security operations, today announced the findings of its new multinational report, From Adoption ...
Appointment: Zepto Creates New Chief Business Resilience Officer Role to Lead Security and Risk

Appointment: Zepto Creates New Chief Business Resilience Officer Role to Lead Security and Risk

Zepto appoints Mariana Paun as Chief Business Resilience Officer. The newly created role will unify teams to strengthen security, risk and compliance under Paun’s leadership.
Sophos Active Adversary Report Finds Identity Attacks Dominate as Threat Groups Proliferate

Sophos Active Adversary Report Finds Identity Attacks Dominate as Threat Groups Proliferate

Sophos has released the 2026 Sophos Active Adversary Report, which reveals that 67% of all incidents investigated by Sophos Incident Response (IR) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) teams last year were rooted in identity-related attacks. The findings highlight how attackers continue to exploit compromised credentials, weak or missing multifactor ...
Armis Launches Developer Portal to Help Global Organisations Operationalise Asset Intelligence

Armis Launches Developer Portal to Help Global Organisations Operationalise Asset Intelligence

“The Armis Developer Portal provides more than just documentation; we are giving the developer and security community direct access to the world’s most robust asset intelligence. This empowers them to move beyond simple monitoring to an intelligent, proactive security posture.”
Veeam Introduces Agent Commander to Confront Agentic AI Risk at Enterprise Scale

Veeam Introduces Agent Commander to Confront Agentic AI Risk at Enterprise Scale

Veeam® Software, the Data and AI Trust Company, today announced Agent Commander, the first unified solution to help organisations safely detect AI risk, protect AI systems, and undo AI mistakes, empowering them to proactively address AI-driven risks and securely scale AI agents everywhere. The first integration from Veeam’s successful acquisition of ...
Sharon AI & Cisco Launch Australia’s First Cisco Secure AI Factory With NVIDIA

Sharon AI & Cisco Launch Australia’s First Cisco Secure AI Factory With NVIDIA

Cisco and Sharon AI launch Australia’s first Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, providing secure, high-performance AI infrastructure with all data processing remaining in the country | Powered by 1024 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, Cisco’s UCS servers and Nexus Hyperfabric technology, it supports Australia’s National AI Plan and accelerates enterprise ...
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