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Cyber attacks on Internet-connected devices continue to rise at an alarming rate due to poor security protections and cybercriminals use of automated tools to exploit the vulnerabilities, according to a new report from Nokia.

Just one in 14 Australian consumers trust organisations to keep their personal information private

GUEST RESEARCH by OpenText: New research from OpenText reveals that nearly half (44%) of Australian consumers would pay more to do business with an organisation that is committed to protecting their personal data, compared to 40 per cent of consumers globally.

An increasing number of Victorians want the 5 kilometre travel limit imposed due to the COVID stage 4 restricition scrapped now, according to a new survey.

Online job ad volumes across Australia over a two week period in September were 80% of pre-COVID levels - the highest national job ad figure since the pandemic began having an impact in March - with job ad volumes continuing to recover in most states and territories with South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and Northern Territory all passing pre-COVID levels, according to a new report on the SEEK employment marketplace. 

An extra US15 billion a week has been spent globally on technology by IT leaders to enable safe and secure home working during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis, representing one of the biggest surges in technology investment in history - with Australian IT leaders increasing spending on cyber security, despite struggling to find skilled cyber security professionals, according to a new global survey.

Australians have already lost over $300,000 to rental and accommodation scams this year - an increase of 76% compared to the same time last year - by responding to fake advertisements posted on real estate or classified websites.

Australian tech company Trax Print says it has used its expertise in document protection and anti-fraud technology to develop a dynamic sanitisation certificate to be used in conjunction with Zoono through their distributors in South Africa, Liquigenic.

Smart home devices and their apps represent a major weak link in the corporate cyber security chain as the lines between work and home life increasingly blur, according to one security firm that conducted a survey revealing 36% of Australian workers use personal devices to access corporate data – often via services and applications hosted in the cloud.

Australia’s peak body for the tech industry, the Australian Information Industry Association (​AIIA​) has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Queensland Government to partner with the Queensland University of Technology (QUT)​ to deliver critical skills around innovation in IT and cyber security in the State.

COMMISSIONED RESEARCH The devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the capacity of many frontline healthcare organisations to provide the full range of community support expected of them. The healthcare sector’s challenges have been captured in a new study by Workday, a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for human resources and finance, in partnership with technology market intelligence company, IDC.

COMMISSIONED RESEARCH The devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the capacity of many frontline healthcare organisations to provide the full range of community support expected of them. The healthcare sector’s challenges have been captured in a new study by Workday, a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for human resources and finance, in partnership with technology market intelligence company, IDC.

Communications and collaboration software market spending in Australia is forecast to grow 20% year-on-year in 2020 amidst the COVID-19 crisis, bucking the trend of a decline in spending on most of the country’s ICT solutions.

COVID-19 related threats are the single largest type of threat in the first half of this year, according to one security firm which says it blocked 8.8 million COVID-19 related threats, nearly 92% of which were spam delivered via emails.

GUEST OPINION by Mike Hicks, Principal Solutions Analyst, ThousandEyes: If you thought your flaky residential connection was the reason your apps were tardy during COVID, think again.

COMMISSIONED RESEARCH SYDNEY, 12 August, 2020 – A study by Workday, a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for human resources and finance, has found that only 6% of Australian organisations are digitally agile and as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has negatively affected 69% of organisations, 40% have accelerated their digital transformation plans while 30% have slowed down.

COMMISSIONED RESEARCH SYDNEY, 12 August, 2020 – A study by Workday, a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for human resources and finance, has found that only 6% of Australian organisations are digitally agile and as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has negatively affected 69% of organisations, 40% have accelerated their digital transformation plans while 30% have slowed down.

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.

INTERVIEW PROMOTION. Low-code development vendor OutSystems has released a major study of thousands of IT professionals and CIOs about their readiness for change a world beset by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Organisations in Australia are turning their attention to business transformation to improve employee systems as the "post-pandemic" world increases the reliance on technology, according to a new study which reveals that spending and investment on IT is growing despite the current economic headwinds.

VENDOR CONTRIBUTION by Ryan Trost - Co-Founder & CTO, ThreatQuotient:  Businesses continue to place more and more data in the cloud, from personal details to intellectual property. The growing adoption of cloud-based solutions by businesses, whether for greater agility, data analytics or to support employees in accessing the data, for example when they were remotely or from home, also increases the risk of cloud attacks.