Ben is TechRepublic's local content lead for Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Based in Sydney, Australia, he has over two decades of experience as a B2B journalist and editor in Australia, Asia and the UK covering developments in technology across multiple industry verticals, including banking and finance, education and the law. He currently covers news and trends relevant to business technology buyers, from technology vendor and product updates, to analysis from local industry thought leaders on the challenges and opportunities organizations are facing in a areas like AI, digital transformation and cybersecurity.
The Australian federal government aims to deliver changes to privacy laws in 2024. Organisations are being warned to prepare ahead of time by creating a comprehensive map of organisational data.
Rapid7’s Jaya Baloo says a deficit in Australian organisational IT asset and vulnerability understanding is helping threat actors, and this is being exacerbated by fast growth in multicloud environments.
A new generation of managed service providers in Australia and the Asia-Pacific could soon use Pax8’s cloud SaaS marketplace to serve up and manage subscription products for business tech buyers.
The success of cyber attacks in Australia could make an “assume-breach” approach to cyber security inevitable and cause IT teams to shift their focus to protecting data backups at all costs.
F5 says an artificial intelligence war could start between generative AI-toting bad actors and enterprises guarding data with AI. Australian IT teams will be caught in the crossfire.
A recent study found global telcos are already deploying generative AI. Chatbots are likely to be one of the first deployments in Australia, though data security and privacy challenges remain.
Apptio Asia-Pacific General Manager Pete Wilson says growing IT financial literacy in local enterprises is helping IT teams resist cost-cutting pressure and tie spending to business growth.
Australian and New Zealand organisations are often struggling to manage five or more observability tools, though for some, the effort and investment is worth AU $1 million a year to the bottom line.
Kelly Brough, Accenture’s director of applied intelligence for Australia and New Zealand, told TechRepublic IT teams are often the most practical about AI, but success will depend on working with others.
AWS and Equinix offer advice for hybrid and multicloud strategies to help mitigate data centre risk in light of a recent outage in Australia that hit Bank of Queensland and Jetstar.
Security convergence is the top priority on near-term roadmaps, while holistic SASE including SD-WAN is being pursued longer term, according to Gartner’s Australian IT spending projections.
IT solutions and managed services provider Logicalis is planning to help skills-deprived Australian CIOs and IT managers get projects done with a new plug-and-play Talent Services offering.
