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A week or so after Australia substantially increased the US military presence in the country, a detailed study claims that American tech firms will play a critical role in addressing Australia’s future tech workforce demand, particularly for experienced workers.

GUEST OPINION: Australian businesses have been challenged with money laundering, fraud, and financial crime for years, and this threat landscape is continually evolving. In the last financial year alone, the Australian Payments Network reported there was AU$502 million worth of fraudulent transactions made. AUSTRAC continues to monitor banks, gaming companies and enterprises to ensure anti-money laundering (AML) regulations are followed and, where appropriate, accountability is taken for any breaches.

Women’s employment in the cyber security industry is now growing faster in comparison to men, new research by RMIT Univeristy finds.

COMPANY NEWS: Nozomi Networks, the leader in OT & IoT security, has announced its MSSP partner program has added nine new members. In addition to a solid bench of global MSSP elite partners, the program has expanded to include MSSP focus partners who are distinguished by service offerings tailored to address regional needs and requirements.

Cloud provider Amazon Web Services and the Australian Government's Digital Transformation Agency have renewed and extended their whole-of-government agreement.

Regardless of case numbers or restriction rollbacks, the impacts of COVID-19 are likely to continue throughout 2022 across all industries and for Australia’s 2.4million+ small businesses, many owners are ready to continue adapting to these ongoing challenges, according to the 2022 Small Business Bravery Report from online business insurance service for SMEs BizCover.

GUEST RESEARCH: Workers’ confidence in the economy has plummeted to its lowest level this year while support for employer-mandated COVID-19 vaccinations and tracking has soared, according to the Elmo Employee Sentiment Index for the September quarter.

About a third of Australians (33%) say they will shop more online than they used to before the coronavirus pandemic, the Australian Bureau of Statistics says, citing data it collected in November and released on Monday.

A total of 100,000 households will test out the infrastructure for next year's Australian census on Tuesday night, the Australian Bureau of Statistics says.

More than 604,000 private sector jobs have been “destroyed” since lockdowns were introduced in March while 14,000 jobs have been added to the public sector, according to the Institute of Public Affairs.

Nutanix' hyperconverged infrastructure software Nutanix Clusters is now generally available on AWS bare metal EC2 instances.

One can't exactly put a name to it, but something akin to cultural cringe must have led the Australian Bureau of Statistics to avoid picking Australian companies to run the 2021 Census.

Price Waterhouse Coopers Australia and recruitment company The Adecco Group have been picked by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to deliver key services for the 2021 Census.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has been allocated another $38.3 million over three years from 2019-20 to ensure that there are no stuff-ups with the 2021 Census, according to Tuesday's Federal Budget papers.

The first businesses to undergo digital transformation under a new Australian Government initiative have been announced, with businesses to receive up to $20,000 in digital support as part of the Digital Champions initiative.

Australia's digital economy has grown by slightly more than $14 billion between the years 2012-13 and 2016-17, a report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics says.

American software giant Microsoft appears likely to bid for the contract to run the 2021 Australian national census, reliable sources have told iTWire.

"If there's one thing worse than a bungle, it's a cover-up. And if there's one thing worse than a cover-up, it's being caught covering up." Wise words those, from the authors of a small, but very useful, book on data breaches and how to manage them.

Companies involved in 14 major recent data breaches in Australia and the rest of the world — including human resources outfit PageUp People — did not even achieve a passing grade for the way in which they handled post-breach communications, the authors of a new book on breaches say.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a discussion paper proposing to take over the collection of Internet activity data, a task which the Australian Bureau of Statistics said that it would be stopping.