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Information technology (IT) in Australia & New Zealand

  • November 04, 2025 04 Nov'25

    Fewer data breaches in Australia, but human error now a bigger threat

    Australian privacy commissioner warns that the human factor is a growing threat as notifications caused by staff mistakes rose significantly even as total breaches declined 10% from a record high

  • November 03, 2025 03 Nov'25

    How Zoom is approaching agentic AI

    Zoom CTO Xuedong Huang explains how AI Companion 3.0’s agentic AI capabilities can help turn conversations into completed actions using long-term memory and deep reasoning

  • October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

    Rapid7: Cyber defences stuck in the 1980s as threats mount

    The company’s chief product officer notes that many defence tactics are still stuck in the past, urging organisations to adopt AI-driven security platforms to improve threat detection and response

  • October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

    Cisco and Splunk plot multi-year data fabric journey

    Company leaders talk up their vision for the Cisco Data Fabric that will allow enterprises to gain insights about their IT infrastructure and security posture from machine data wherever it resides, from the network edge to the cloud

  • October 27, 2025 27 Oct'25

    BDO Unibank taps Zscaler to secure cloud migration

    Zscaler’s deal with the Philippine bank comes as it is expanding its platform’s capabilities and footprint across Asia

  • October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

    AI chip challenger Groq eyes APAC expansion

    Groq’s novel chip architecture that speeds up AI inferencing has attracted a fast-growing developer base as it plans its first datacentre in the Asia-Pacific region

  • October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

    Canva to save 30,000 work hours with agentic AI

    The graphic design giant is training hundreds of staff on a low-code AI platform and agentic AI tools that are set to save around 30,000 person-hours this year and generate financial returns

  • October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

    Building security and trust in AI agents

    AI agents require standardised guidelines, clear human responsibility and a shared language between developers and policymakers to be secure and trusted, experts say

  • October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

    AI market is ‘frothy not bubbly’, says Cloudian CEO

    To meet the growth in demand for on-premise AI inferencing, Cloudian has developed an AI platform to help enterprises apply large language models to their private data and address security and sovereignty concerns

  • October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

    F5 admits nation-state actor stole BIG-IP source code

    F5 discloses that a nation-state actor has stolen source code and unpatched vulnerability data for its widely used BIG-IP products, raising supply chain security concerns across the industry