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COMPANY NEWS: CyberCX, the leading cyber security and cloud services provider across Australia and New Zealand, announced today that the company has achieved the new Amazon Web Services (AWS) Digital Sovereignty Competency.

GUEST OPINION: The Government overnight published industry responses for reforms to Australia’s cyber security legislation, including those from Macquarie Technology Group, AWS, CyberCX, AISA, Tech Council of Australia, Telstra, and more.

BeyondTrust, the leader in intelligent identity and access security, today announced the winners of its APJ Partner Experience Awards for those companies which have gone above and beyond in their commitment to meeting customer identity and access security needs this past year.

COMPANY NEWS: F5 has announced the company’s completion of the Infosec Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) Assessment for F5 Distributed Cloud Services, highlighting F5’s ongoing commitment to its Australian customers.

Information security and compliance cloud provider Qualys has appointed Richard Sorosina to the role of ANZ chief technology security officer, Frances Kwok to the newly created role of regional business operations manager, and Neil Chen to the role of technical account manager.

Whenever there is a network attack in Australia — what some commentators call "cyber attacks" carried out by "hackers" — dozens of well-known and not-so-well-known commercial operatives literally fall over themselves in a bid to try and gain some advantage from the disaster.

The Australian National Audit Office has released a scathing report about the Digital Transformation Agency's handling of nine selected procurements, saying it "did not conduct the procurements effectively and its approach fell short of ethical requirements".

End-user device management software company Devicie has raised $14 million in a series A round to fund expansion in the US, UK, and Europe and Middle East.

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.

Cybermindz.org launches the world’s first peer-led, cybersecurity mental health support program. This important initiative was launched by NSW Minister for Customer Service and Digital Government, Victor Dominello, and the launch was followed by a panel event of leading industry experts, as you can see in the on-demand stream of the Thursday 16 June launch event, details below.

Security services provider CyberCX has appointed Karina Mansfield to the role of managing director of Phriendly Phishing.

Australia’s Cyber Security Growth Network AustCyber has relaunched AUCyberExplorer, an interactive tool that tracks the state of the Australian cyber security job market by providing detailed, actionable data about job supply and demand.

Australian security firm CyberCX has moved quickly following its recent launch in the New Zealand market, with the acquisition of local New Zealand cyber security specialist Insomnia Security.

Fast growing cybersecurity firm selects agile business platform to support strategic consulting and world-class managed services offering

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT: SYDNEY – August 27, 2020: FinancialForce, provider of the only modern ERP suite and the #1 professional services automation (PSA), today announced that CyberCX, a leading cybersecurity provider based in Australia, is integrating its business on a single platform powered by FinancialForce and Salesforce. As a pure-play cybersecurity company, CyberCX offers the region’s most comprehensive end-to-end capabilities, securing communities and defending businesses, enterprises and government agencies from global and local cyber threats.

Australian cyber security organisation CyberCX is launching in New Zealand’s NZ$600 million cyber security market with plans to establish a large specialised cyber security workforce in the country.

The defence industry lobby group Australian Strategic Policy Institute is acting to ratchet up tensions with Australia's major trading partner China and using funds it gets from the Federal Government for this purpose, more than $20 million at last count, the Australian arm of the Chinese telecommunications equipment company Huawei Technologies says in a strongly-worded blog post.

The only logical conclusion that one can draw from the latest inspired effort from the defence industry lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute — calling for ISPs to provide a clean Internet — is that the good people at this institute have been smoking some very strong stuff.

Australia's cyber bureaucracy appears to have been hard at work during the lockdown and has come up with what it calls a Digital Trust Report, the ultimate example of tripe about the cyber security industry, one that offers statistics galore, but with no explanation of how they have been calculated or what use they are.

The defence industry-funded lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, has many shortcomings. But it has numerous strong points too, chief among which is its unceasing ability to spread misinformation, propaganda and heighten the fear index in society.

Cyber security company CyberCX has acquired Melbourne-based cyber security provider Basis Networks.