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Cyber Security Pros Should Worry About State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks

By Ben Abbott February 22, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] State-sponsored cyber intrusions have become an increasing concern to both Australian governments and organisations. Defence Minister Richard Marles warned just last year that the country was seeing a greater…

Should IT and Security Teams Play a Role in Crisis Communications?

By Ben Abbott February 21, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] Outages and cyber incidents can have a direct impact on a company’s brand, share price and jobs, according to Louise Roberts, managing director at Sphere Public Relations in Australia.…

Rippling Promises to Make Siloed Employee Data a Thing of the Past in Australia

By Ben Abbott February 15, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] Rippling is a workforce management software firm that aims to provide one place to run HR, finance and IT operations for workforces. The platform brings together employee data normally…

Australian Payroll Society Says Limited Payroll Expertise Is to Blame for Employee Underpayments

By Ben Abbott February 14, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] Image: Adobe/TarikVision At the beginning of February 2024, Australia Post, Australia’s national postal service, was forced to apologise to 3,600 employees for payroll errors spanning a decade. The mistake,…

Infoblox says IT Pros Are Missing This Mega-Threat From Organised Global Cyber Criminals

By Ben Abbott February 9, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] High volumes of malware and other malicious content are being delivered to networks in APAC, Australia, New Zealand and across the globe as a result of a set of…

Federated Data Lakes Could Make Sense of Enterprise Data ‘Mess’ to Power AI

By Ben Abbott February 8, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] Australian organisations have tried hard to bring data together in recent decades. They have moved from data marts, which contained information specific to business units, to data warehouses, data…

IBM’s Matthew Candy Sees Evidence of Innovation in Australia’s 2024 Pursuit of Generative AI Scale

By Ben Abbott February 7, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] Australian organisations are keeping pace with global innovation in generative AI, according to IBM Consulting Global Head of Generative AI Matthew Candy. A local legislative focus on regulating high-risk…

Asia-Pacific Data Centre Market to Face Brave New World of AI

By Ben Abbott January 17, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] The Asia-Pacific data centre market is expected to grow fast for the remainder of this decade. This will be partially due to the deployment of artificial intelligence, which took…

Could Data Capture, Management Technologies Prevent Construction Quality Slippage in 2024?

By Ben Abbott January 12, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] There were a record 2,349 construction firm collapses in the calendar year 2023 — accounting for nearly 28% of all Australian business failures. Going forward in 2024, the construction…

AWS’s Response to Generative AI in 2023 (and What IT Pros Should Expect in 2024)

By Ben Abbott January 10, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] When 2023 began, Rada Stanic, chief technologist for AWS in Australia and New Zealand, imagined the year would be dominated by helping customers build more modern data platforms in…