Obsidian Security Expands in Australia to Protect Critical SaaS Applications for Organisations Across the Region
Obsidian Security is expanding its presence in APJ to accelerate SaaS security deployments for local businesses. This expansion will also enhance support for many of the region’s leading enterprises that already rely on Obsidian to protect their critical cloud-based applications, including some of Australia’s largest healthcare, financial, and telecommunication providers.
Canberra college de-risks information management and strengthens compliance with Castlepoint
Castlepoint Systems has announced that Canberra’s Radford College has implemented Castlepoint’s explainable AI (XAI) platform to underpin its information management and governance framework, allowing the school to remain compliant with industry regulations and reduce risk as it executes on its Digital On Demand strategy.
Australian Organisations Experienced Highest Rate of Data Breaches, Reports Rubrik Zero Labs
Based on the global average, almost 50 per cent more data breaches impact Australian organisations, and nearly all Australian organisations who fell victim to a ransomware event paid attackers to recover data or stop the attack.
Nozomi Networks Secures $100 Million Investment to Accelerate Mission to Defend the World’s Critical Infrastructure from Cyber Threats
Latest round includes investments from Mitsubishi Electric and Schneider Electric; spotlights demand for an OT/IoT security platform that supports heterogeneous operating environments
Australian businesses are ready to ditch passwords, says new report from FIDO Alliance and LastPass
Ninety per cent of Australian IT leaders expect passwords will represent less than a quarter of their organisation's logins in five years or less
Rubrik Appoints Abhilash Purushothaman GM and VP Asia
Antoine Le Tard, Vice President, Rubrik APJ, said the role was a newly created position where Purushothaman will lead the business in India, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and across ASEAN.
Rubrik Zero Labs Finds Almost Two-Thirds of Australian Businesses Would Pay Ransomware Demand
Rubrik Zero Labs commissioned its second global study with Wakefield Research to gather insights from more than 1,600 IT and security leaders—half of which were CIOs and CISOs—across 10 countries. This study was supplemented by Rubrik telemetry, combining both qualitative and quantitative data.
Fivecast completes AU$30m Series A raise with new US and existing Australian VC investors
Australian AI start-up Fivecast has announced the close of its Series A investment round, raising a whopping AU$30 million.
Macquarie Telecom Group becomes first company certified by DTA for Cloud and Data Centre services
Macquarie Telecom Group’s cloud services have been Certified Strategic by Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA), making the company the first to have both cloud and data centre services DTA certified at this level.
Nozomi Networks Labs Report: Wipers and IoT Botnets Dominate the Threat Landscape – Manufacturing and Energy at Highest Risk
The latest Operational Technology (OT)/IoT security report from Nozomi Networks Labs finds wiper malware, IoT botnet activity, and the Russia/Ukraine war impacted the threat landscape in the first half of 2022.
Lookout Data Reveals Australia Worst in the World for Mobile App Threats
Lookout’s analysis of more than 160 million apps finds Australia encounters the highest rate of mobile app threats on a per-device basis in the world (26.9%).
Nozomi Networks Secures $100 Million Investment from Global Ecosystem of Customers and Technology Partners
Nozomi networks; the leader in OT and IoT security, today announced a US$100 million pre-IPO-funding round to help accelerate the company’s growth phase and extend its market leadership.
Macquarie Data Centres announces new Sydney North data centre
IC3 Super West largest investment to date, expands Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus to 50MW and includes new Sovereign Cyber Security Centre of Excellence
Cyber Risk to Critical and Industrial Infrastructure Reaches All-Time High
With industrial organisations ramping connectivity to accelerate digital transformation and remote work, threat actors are weaponising the software supply chain and ransomware attacks are growing in number, sophistication and persistence, according to a new report from Nozomi Networks.