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Melbourne based RSP Activ8me has introduced new NBN satellite plans with daily rather than monthly caps. The idea is to stop customers running out of data before the end of the month.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has launched a site that can be used to check one's website, email and Internet connection to see whether the latest and most secure standards are being used.

Australia's biggest telco, Telstra, and OneWeb, a low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore new solutions for improved digital connectivity across Australia and the Asia Pacific region.

It's all over the news - Tasmania is experiencing severe Internet problems via fixed and mobile internet, and while the island state isn't completely cut off, there are definitely major issues.

The proportion of internet non-users is highest among the Australian elderly, revealing a digital generation gap, according to a global survey conducted by Avast.

GUEST OPINION by Steve Singer, Regional Vice President and Country Manager – ANZ, Zscaler:  The ongoing global pandemic has caused fundamental changes to businesses. Two of the most significant have been the widespread adoption of remote working and the increased usage of cloud-based collaboration platforms.

GUEST OPINION by Steve Singer, Regional Vice President and Country Manager – ANZ, Zscaler:  The ongoing global pandemic has caused fundamental changes to businesses. Two of the most significant have been the widespread adoption of remote working and the increased usage of cloud-based collaboration platforms.

GUEST OPINION: Gigamon’s ANZ Manager, George Tsoukas has shared information on an often overlooked data security area. He explains that at its most basic, a network is a system comprises two or more computers sharing resources, data and communications, with the goal of accomplishing essential tasks more quickly and effectively.

The Australian Labor Party has announced it will provide free broadband for a year to 30,000 homes which have no Internet connections, as part of its broadband policy for the upcoming election.

Telstra has announced a 5G home and business Internet plan with 1TB of data per month for $85 with no lock-in contracts.

Citrix today announced the launch of its new Citrix App Delivery and Security Service, an intent-based cloud solution to automate the process of securely delivering apps in real-time - which removes complexity at every step.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Unlike some telcos that have halved NBN upload speeds and raised prices in the middle of the latest pandemic lockdowns, MATE hasn't done so, while also avoiding the ridiculousness of cheaper prices for 6 months after which prices go up, while offering competitive NBN and mobile pricing, and genuinely good deals through its new "Mates Rates" service.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Unlike some telcos that have halved NBN upload speeds and raised prices in the middle of the latest pandemic lockdowns, MATE hasn't done so, while also avoiding the ridiculousness of cheaper prices for 6 months after which prices go up, while offering competitive NBN and mobile pricing, and genuinely good deals through its new "Mates Rates" service.

GUEST OPINION by Guilad Regev, SVP Customer Care, Claroty:  Whenever there is any discussion around cybersecurity in manufacturing facilities, some common themes emerge. The first is that operational technology (OT), once isolated from the global internet and all its cyber threats, is now increasingly interconnected with IT systems, and therefore exposed to a host of new dangers.

Hobart-based Internet service provider TasmaNet has launched its eastern seaboard cloud node, based in Sydney, delivering “enhanced access” to its core private cloud platform.

COMPANY NEWS by George Tsoukas, Gigamon: The internet is the most ambitious communication and data transference technology ever created. But with it advance come several challenges, and as we improve our ability to share large amounts of information between computers, servers and other digital devices, the risk of that data falling into unauthorised hands increases significantly.

Last week it was CDN network Fast.ly that had an outage causing many global websites to temporarily go down, and yesterday it was Akamai's CDN service with a "routing error" taking many Aussie sites temporarily offline.

Fastly's latest response to yesterday's outage puts the blame indirectly on an unnamed customer.

The internet outage this evening has been resolved, although we still don't know the cause.

As we write, the internet is experiencing a major outage across a wide variety of platforms.