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Customers expect personalisation during every brand interaction — but they don’t trust brands to keep their personal data secure and to use it responsibly, according to a new report from customer engagement platform Twilio.

GUEST INTERVIEW: A silver lining is just the start of Currencycloud's features and benefits, with its acquisition by financial giant Visa in December 2021 and the receipt of a financial licence to operate in Australia showcasing it is blue skies ahead for this innovative company.

GUEST INTERVIEW: A silver lining is just the start of Currencycloud's features and benefits, with its acquisition by financial giant Visa in December 2021 and the receipt of a financial licence to operate in Australia showcasing it is blue skies ahead for this innovative company.

Australian commercial small satellite manufacturer Fleet Space has partnered with Konica Minolta to implement 3D printers from 3D Systems to support “groundbreaking innovation”, which aims to bring manufacturing for the space, strategic, and mineral exploration industries back onshore.

Major industrial regions – including the Pilbara, Kwinana, Hunter, Illawarra and Gladstone – have the natural resources, workforce and baseline infrastructure that can be expanded to support Australia’s net zero transition, according to a newly released report.

GUEST OPINION: As the new Albanese-led ministerial team sets its goals and priorities for the coming three years, there are a range of technology related issues that should be included in the mix.

Latest figures reveal Australia has the highest percentage of mobile app threats detected and Australians are the most exposed to mobile threats on a per-device basis, according to the Look App Threats Map, a threat intelligence index by endpoint-to-cloud security Lookout.

Australian-listed payment solutions and service firm QuickFee says it has achieved record automated clearing house (ACH) and credit card processing volumes in the US for March, April, and May consecutively – driven by continued momentum in its professional services merchant portfolio and go-to-market strategies executed this financial year.

GUEST RESEARCH: Ping Identity (NYSE: PING), the intelligent identity solution for the enterprise, and Yubico, the leading provider of hardware authentication security keys, surveyed IT leaders across the globe, including in Australia, to determine their appetite for passwordless solutions. Overwhelmingly, the desire was clear to adopt more secure and convenient methods of passwordless authentication. They cited gains in security, productivity, and customer experience as key drivers.

Data security and analytics company Varonis has appointed Zane Lockley to a newly created role of channel director ANZ.

COMPANY NEWS: After findings revealed Australia and New Zealand to have been the target of more than 50 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks between July and September 2021 alone, F5 has expanded its local DDoS protection services with the launch of two scrubbing centres to provide customers with real-time local protection, support, and expertise.

Digital infrastructure company Equinix and PGIM Real Estate, the real estate investment and finance arm of PGIM, Prudential Financial’s asset management business, opens what it claims to be the first xScale data centre in Sydney named SY9x.

COMPANY NEWS: Dell Technologies runs a specialised program for high school students called Dell Student TechCrew. This initiative is designed to promote future career skills and learning through Dell’s industry leading technical certification program and practical, hands-on experience as students help their peers and school staff members with technology issues.

Australian small businesses will have access to a range of tools and services to help them stay safe online, with a collaboration between the Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre (A3C) and the non-profit organisation Global Cyber Alliance (GCA).

GUEST INTERVIEW: Putting the industry under immense competitive pressure, Aussie Broadband's Carbon has emerged as a true diamond, letting business customers have incredible control over Internet and mobile connectivity with true self-service, while also having full support as needed, with Aaron O'Keeffe on-hand to explain it all.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Putting the industry under immense competitive pressure, Aussie Broadband's Carbon has emerged as a true diamond, letting business customers have incredible control over Internet and mobile connectivity with true self-service, while also having full support as needed, with Aaron O'Keeffe on-hand to explain it all.

Mantel Group, through its data, analytics, and machine learning brand, Eliiza, has acquired machine learning as a service provider, otso.ai.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Getting the Sniip is a great new way to cut costs and save money, with the app enabling a much better way to pay bills, including no fees at all when using debit cards, making the Sniip app impressively rewarding.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Getting the Sniip is a great new way to cut costs and save money, with the app enabling a much better way to pay bills, including no fees at all when using debit cards, making the Sniip app impressively rewarding.

New research shows over half of businesses struggle to reduce the risk of attacks, leaving them fearful of compromise, particularly by nation-states and other types of threat actors. The study also predicts this situation will continue if critical cybersecurity skills shortages aren’t addressed, and if organisations do not employ detection technologies that are effective in production, provide real-time visibility, and integrate with existing tools and processes.