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COMPANY NEWS: Solista, an award-winning Australian cloud transformation and security consultancy, has announced the formation of the Zero Trust Alliance, an integrated security offering combining best-of-breed technologies from market-leading security vendors, CrowdStrike, Netskope, Okta, Illumio, CyberArk and Mimecast.

MEGA UPDATED: More than FIFTY top IT companies in Australia have provided IT industry commentary on Australia’s 2021 Federal Budget, focusing on the digital economy, cyber security, business and more.

A new study by ACA Research released by Mimecast shows that 21% of workers experienced a privacy incident last year and reveals that one in five (19%) did not report it to their employer. The proliferation of privacy issues, Mimecast cites, is due to the increased use of communication tools. The data suggests firms need to be tougher to make privacy a priority.

The State of Email Security, an annual report published by Mimecast, discovered 79% suffered financial loss, and identified that ransomware was the chief culprit behind these disruptions.

Email security firm Mimecast says a hit on its infrastructure by attackers who used the SolarWinds supply chain to gain access, went deeper than already reported, with some of the company's source code being stolen.

We asked a number of IT executives what the 'new normal' might look like as the impact of COVID-19 wanes.

Business analytics platform Sisense has appointed former Mimecast senior executive Adam Towns as Chief Financial Officer.

ANALYSIS The assertion by Microsoft President Brad Smith during a 60 Minutes interview with CBS on Sunday that the supply chain attack revealed by security firm FireEye in December was "the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen" has once again raised the question of the extent to which Microsoft was involved in this attack.

Email security firm Mimecast has admitted that the compromise of a certificate it had issued for some Microsoft services is connected to the SolarWinds supply chain incident.

Email security provider Mimecast says it has been informed by Microsoft that a certificate it issued for authentication of Mimecast Sync and Recover, Continuity Monitor, and IEP products to Microsoft 365 Exchange Web Services has been compromised.

Do Industry executives think our lives will improve in the coming year? Or will it be Groundhog Year?  Again... Again... Again...

We posed this question to a broad swathe of senior industry executives. Here's what they had to say.

Australians are using work tools, including company-issued devices for personal matters, to a greater extent than their global counterparts while remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research which labels the behaviour as a security risk.

If data is the new oil, then humans are swimming through an oil spill.

iTWire asked a number of IT security executives for their best thoughts on defeating ransomware. Here's what they had to say.

Email and data security vendor Mimecast has acquired messaging security provider eTorch which operates as MessageControl for an undisclosed sum.

Friday morning's announcement by Prime Minister Scott Morrison about a cyber attack on Australian public and private sector institutions led to a flood of commentary by security firms, all waxing voluble on the extent of the threat and how much danger the country faces.

Global email and data security company Mimecast has acquired digital threat protection vendor Segasec.

Email security provider Mimecast has gone in hard in a bid to capitalise on the proposed sale of Symantec's enterprise division to Broadcom, offering customers of Symantec's MessageLabs email security cloud free email security risk assessments and other discounts.

Email security provider Mimecast has appointed 20-year ICT industry veteran Craig McGregor as Channel Director, Australia and New Zealand (ANZ).