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• Working closely with developers, the two companies are targeting new applications for enterprises in banking, finance, ports, online streaming, and the public sector.
• StarHub’s 5G and 4G networks will connect to Nokia’s Network as Code platform with developer portal to give developers a seamless pathway for creating new applications.

Singaporean telecommunications conglomerate Starhub, with over 2 million subscribers, and Nokia are partnering on network APIs to support StarHub’s mission to create new revenue opportunities for its customers and monetise its network assets.

GUEST RESEARCH: Boomi, the intelligent integration and automation leader, today announced findings of a new global study. The IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by IFS and Boomi, reveals that ageing, monolithic systems, and a lack of technological understanding at the executive level limit organisational agility and responsiveness to disruptions. The research also identified that having a composable strategy is key for organisations to overcome these challenges.

Oracle has released Java 21, with a promise of long term support for at least eight years.

COMPANY NEWS: Lucid Software, the leader in visual collaboration software, today announced the launch of its latest APIs and developer platform, which will enable Lucid users and partners to better streamline their workflows by creating, publishing, and distributing their apps and integrations within the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite. Top partners utilizing the APIs and developer platform at launch include Salesforce, Slack, ServiceNow, and Notion.

GUEST OPINION: Shadow APIs have become a significant threat to IT security in recent years. They are increasingly being exploited by cybercriminals to gain unauthorised access to systems with the objective of causing disruption or loss.

GUEST OPINION: The Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and US National Security Agency (NSA) have released a joint cybersecurity advisory warning vendors, designers, and developers of web applications and organisations using web applications about insecure direct object reference (IDOR) vulnerabilities, also known as broken object level authorisation (BOLA) vulnerabilities.

Backup specialist Veeam Software has announced plans to integrating Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 with Microsoft 365 Backup via Microsoft's new backup APIs.

Data security vendor Rubrik has announced a forthcoming integration with Microsoft 365 Backup, providing faster Microsoft 365 restores, recovery of Azure Active Directory, and centralised management of Microsoft 365 data and other SaaS and hybrid cloud workloads.

GUEST OPINION: With more than 60% of corporate data currently stored in the cloud, the attack surface for threat actors is now as dynamic as the cloud itself, and growing fast. In this modern cyber world – where new blind spots provide attackers with a greater window of opportunity – it is essential that security teams have the proper visibility to investigate and respond to potential cloud compromises.

API protection specialist Cequence Security has updated its unified API protection platform, allowing customers to rapidly deploy API security testing with built-in generative AI automation, protect users from online fraud, and operationalise security findings with low-code/no-code workflows.

COMPANY NEWS: Appdome, the mobile app economy's one stop shop for mobile app defence, today announced the launch of its new MOBILEBot Defense solution. This groundbreaking solution offers mobile brands unparalleled bot detection, comprehensive intelligence and rapid defence against malicious bots, credential stuffing and account takeovers (ATOs) in mobile app business lines. Appdome is currently the only company to offer comprehensive anti-bot defence built specifically for mobile apps.

GUEST RESEARCH: The value of Reddit comes from community-generated content, and that is a problem now that the company has alienated important community leaders, the moderators of its forums.

Visual communication specialist Canva's new developers platform includes APIs and development tools that allow apps to be written for or integrate with Canva.

UEST RESEARCH: Cequence Security, the leading provider of Unified API Protection (UAP), today released its second half 2022 report titled API protection report: holiday build-up shows 550 percent jump in unique threats. Developed by the CQ prime threat research team, the report is based on the analysis of approximately one trillion API transactions spanning various industries over the second half of 2022 and seeks to highlight the latest API threat trends plaguing organisations today.

GUEST OPINION: They've been in use since the early 2000s, yet the popularity of public application programming interfaces continues to rapidly increase. They have now replaced web apps as the preferred means of computer-to-computer communication.

Multi-cloud security and application delivery company F5 announced security capabilities to give protection and control in managing apps and APIs across data centre, cloud, hybrid, and edge locations across Australia and New Zealand.

GUEST OPINION: Australian businesses are taking a keen interest in using network data to solve two business problems that have emerged in recent times: office space utilisation and energy use.

A distinctive feature of Infor's CloudSuite is that it incorporates three multi tenant ERP systems supporting discrete, process and services environments, packaged to support particular industries such as automotive, chemicals and hospitality. That diversity reflects the company's history, which has involved more than 50 acquisitions over 20 years.

Cloud-native application networking company Solo.io has appointed professional services technology company Singularity DevOps as a foundational channel partner in Australia.

GUEST OPINION: A new year is a time when most people take stock of what they have accomplished and make plans for the year ahead. New opportunities await those who are prepared and know where to find them.