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In this bonus episode, KB sits down with Jenny Tsai-Smith, SVP, Overall Database Product Management at Oracle, Rand Waldron, VP at Oracle, and Arman Ashouriha, Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Modernisation Programme at Vodafone. Together they discuss Oracle’s move towards supporting modern workloads and their AI play, Oracle’s position in the public and private sector, and Vodafone’s journey to modernisation on Oracle Cloud.

Jenny Tsai-Smith, SVP, Overall Database Product Management, Oracle

Since joining Oracle in 1993, Jenny Tsai-Smith has held leadership roles spanning technical support, content development, education delivery, plus Oracle Cloud acceleration of startups and scientific research. As the leader for database product management, Jenny works with release and development management to take products and services from design through development to production. Her team runs the customer advisory board, drives technology adoption partners, performs field enablement, assists with migrations to Oracle Database, and works directly with a wide range of customers. She meets regularly with customers, partners, press, and analysts to better understand existing and emerging data management requirements, and to discuss how database innovations can be applied to solve real-world challenges.

Rand Waldron, VP at Oracle

Rand Waldron is vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure product development, responsible for the Global Government Sector team and leading the strategy, development and deployment of Oracle’s National Security Region product line. Prior to joining Oracle in 2018, he was Deputy Assistant Director at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, responsible for the FBI’s enterprise software and data—including investigative and intelligence analytics, records and evidence management, large scale custom software development and business operations systems. Prior to the FBI, Waldron served at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Arman Ashouriha, Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Modernisation Programme at Vodafone

As the Head of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Modernisation Programme at Vodafone, Arman Ashouriha leads the strategic effort to modernize and migrate thousands of key systems to a dedicated region within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Arman is continually driving towards platform support, system modernization, and scaling crucial operations across complex, high-stakes infrastructure environments.

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The Guardians that Safeguard our Critical Infrastructure

The Guardians that Safeguard our Critical Infrastructure

By Darrin Iatrou | Critical Infrastructure, IoT & Robotics, Security Operations, Zero Trust
Introduction Every day, critical industry sectors like healthcare, government and utilities services rely on digital systems that are mission-critical but vulnerable to cyber threats. Yet, the professionals safeguarding these systems often go unrecognised. Imagine a hospital's life-support systems faltering during critical surgery, a school building’s security lockdown failing during an active threat drill or a state government's emergency response network collapsing during a natural disaster. These scenarios are daily hypotheticals faced by the ...
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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 Autonomous AI In 2026, the rapid acceleration of autonomous AI-driven...
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‘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 in digital transactions to hide malicious activity.  The Perfect...
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Safeguarding Australia’s Most Critical Systems: Why Cybersecurity Is a Sovereignty Issue

Australia’s critical infrastructure is now on the front line of a contest that is playing out both in cyberspace and our surrounding seas and skies. The choices industry makes in the next few years will determine whether we remain merely connected or truly resilient. The Stakes for Critical Infrastructure The latest ASD Cyber Threat Report shows that cyber incidents now target Australia’s critical infrastructure at...
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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 discuss the complexities and opportunities facing security teams...
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The ABCs of GRC

Introduction In the face of increasing regulatory pressure, rising cyber threats, and growing business complexity, organisations need a structured, scalable approach to managing risk. Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) frameworks have become vital for aligning information security with corporate objectives, ensuring operational resilience, and maintaining trust with stakeholders. For tech executives, building...
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The Korean Leaks – Analysing the Hybrid Geopolitical Campaign Targeting South Korean Financial Services with Qilin RaaS

When preparing data for the Bitdefender Threat Debrief | October 2025, Bitdefender noticed a significant departure from established ransomware trends. Typically, the top five most impacted countries are consistently the US, Canada, and major Western European nations. However, for this period, South Korea (KR) suddenly became the second most-targeted country, with 25 victims claimed in a single month. This anomaly...
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How the Financial Sector Is Battling New Cyber Threats

Australia’s financial institutions are confronting a new generation of cyber and fraud threats that are testing the limits of traditional defences. From quote manipulation in insurance to networks of co-ordinated money mules and ghost brokering, the old playbook built on static, siloed data models is fast losing its relevance. The financial sector’s challenge is not just the rising sophistication of fraudsters, but...
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Turning Hesitation into Action

Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to redefine technology’s place in organisations, promising unmatched opportunities, alongside uncertainty and risk. At Cisco Live! 2025, the launch of a new report, “Turning Hesitation into Action: How Risk Leaders Can Unlock AI’s Potential” set out to pierce the fog surrounding AI adoption and governance in Australia. The session, jointly presented by Cisco and the Governance...
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Crisis Leadership in Uncertain Times: Why People, Practice, and Policy Matter Most

We live in times like we are always on the edge of a crisis. Whether it is due to public health issues, geopolitical instability, economic volatility, or an increase in sophisticated cyber threats, uncertainty has become our constant companion. Effective leadership in this kind of environment is a fundamental shift not just in our leadership paradigm but also to our agility. However, one idea never goes out of...
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Awareness to Action – Building a Culture of Cybersecurity at SMBs

Cybersecurity remains a pressing concern for businesses across Australia, with the frequency and impact of attacks continuing to rise. While large enterprises often have the financial resources and personnel to build robust cyber defences, SMBs are still disproportionately exposed. With tighter budgets and fewer dedicated staff, smaller organisations can find it challenging to prioritise cybersecurity alongside...
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Why Australia Must Shift from Reactive to Resilient Cybersecurity

As we look ahead to 2026, the cyber landscape confronting Australia is more volatile than ever, and the implications for government, critical infrastructure, and enterprise are profound. Every connected device, every credential, every unpatched system is now potential entry point zero. Data from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD)’s Annual Cyber Threat Report for 2024-25 underscores the cybersecurity challenge...
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Fortinet CISO’s 2026 cybersecurity predictions: Artificial intelligence, geopolitics, and the new era of resilience

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Driving Innovation, But At What Cost? AI is fundamentally transforming almost every business, not just by automating tasks, but by changing how decisions are made, how value is created, and how companies compete. It appears that there is virtually no limit to the transformative benefits AI will bring, including its ability to drive innovation. Previously, broad technology changes were...
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The Identity Crisis CISOs Can No Longer Ignore

As 2026 budgeting ramps up, CISOs are under renewed pressure to cut costs without compromising security. Boards are demanding measurable ROI, while digital transformation efforts, increasingly driven by AI, continue to accelerate. Yet one critical area remains overlooked. Identity security is too often seen as a technical layer, rather than what it truly is: the foundation of modern cybersecurity and a strategic...
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Curly COMrades: Evasion and Persistence via Hidden Hyper-V Virtual Machines

Bitdefender first documented the Curly COMrades threat actor, operating to support Russian interests in geopolitical hotbeds, in August 2025. Since that initial discovery, subsequent forensics and incident response efforts have revealed critical new tools and techniques. Valuable support was provided by the Georgian CERT, whose collaboration significantly advanced the investigation. It alerted us to a detected...
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Cybersecurity Negligence Can’t Be a Cost of Doing Business Anymore

For years, organisations viewed cybersecurity failures as costly but absorbable mishaps. That era is over. Relentless, high-impact breaches now demand evolving accountability, impacting not just technology resilience but also governance, trust, and the rule of law. A Defining Test Case The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s lawsuit against Optus for its 2022 mega-breach, which exposed the data of...
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How to Select the Optimum Physical Security Solution for Your Business

Choosing fit-for-purpose infrastructure that will keep your employees, assets and information safe is vital. Introduction Is a security uplift on your agenda during the next 12 months? For many Australian organisations, the answer is yes. While in 2025, our country remains a safe place. A nation where violent incidents, disorder and civil unrest are uncommon occurrences, businesses and organisations nonetheless...
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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 Autonomous AI In 2026, the rapid acceleration of autonomous AI-driven...
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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 routine video call with the CFO and other colleagues. In reality, every...
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‘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 in digital transactions to hide malicious activity.  The Perfect...
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Australia’s Next Insider Threat Might Be an Algorithm

Introduction 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. Traditionally, “insider threat” has meant someone with authorised access who...
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