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Australian security firm CyberCX has moved quickly following its recent launch in the New Zealand market, with the acquisition of local New Zealand cyber security specialist Insomnia Security.

Fast growing cybersecurity firm selects agile business platform to support strategic consulting and world-class managed services offering

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT: SYDNEY – August 27, 2020: FinancialForce, provider of the only modern ERP suite and the #1 professional services automation (PSA), today announced that CyberCX, a leading cybersecurity provider based in Australia, is integrating its business on a single platform powered by FinancialForce and Salesforce. As a pure-play cybersecurity company, CyberCX offers the region’s most comprehensive end-to-end capabilities, securing communities and defending businesses, enterprises and government agencies from global and local cyber threats.

Australian cyber security organisation CyberCX is launching in New Zealand’s NZ$600 million cyber security market with plans to establish a large specialised cyber security workforce in the country.

The defence industry lobby group Australian Strategic Policy Institute is acting to ratchet up tensions with Australia's major trading partner China and using funds it gets from the Federal Government for this purpose, more than $20 million at last count, the Australian arm of the Chinese telecommunications equipment company Huawei Technologies says in a strongly-worded blog post.

The only logical conclusion that one can draw from the latest inspired effort from the defence industry lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute — calling for ISPs to provide a clean Internet — is that the good people at this institute have been smoking some very strong stuff.

Australia's cyber bureaucracy appears to have been hard at work during the lockdown and has come up with what it calls a Digital Trust Report, the ultimate example of tripe about the cyber security industry, one that offers statistics galore, but with no explanation of how they have been calculated or what use they are.

The defence industry-funded lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, has many shortcomings. But it has numerous strong points too, chief among which is its unceasing ability to spread misinformation, propaganda and heighten the fear index in society.

Cyber security company CyberCX has acquired Melbourne-based cyber security provider Basis Networks.

One good thing about cyber attacks on Australia is the fact that they unearth a large number of highly talented cyber security professionals who have been hiding in the shadows. Given the dearth of talent in this sector, it is indeed a welcome development.

Private equity firm BGH Capital has pumped a sizeable amount into the formation of a cyber security firm CyberCX, which will unite 12 independent firms: Alcorn, Assurance, Asterisk, CQR, Diamond, Enosys, Klein & Co., Phriendly Phishing, Sense of Security, Shearwater, TSS, and YellIT.