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COMPANY NEWS: Telstra Health today introduces Smart Scribe, an AI-powered, voice recognition clinical note-taking tool, designed to improve productivity and patient care by easing the administration burden currently facing general practitioners (GPs) across Australia.

GUEST OPINION:  The IT world is currently in the middle of an ‘AI rush,’ and we have just been hit by a new wave with the launch of DeepSeek, an open-source AI-powered chatbot that claims to rival OpenAI’s architecture. With any new artificial intelligence innovation, we must also discuss its potential data privacy impact. Coming off the recent Data Privacy Day, now is the time to take a closer look at the potential of this new AI tool and its related data protection considerations.

Commvault Cloud enables easy, secure, CIS-hardened deployment across all major cloud hyperscaler marketplaces

GUEST OPINION:  “Data Privacy Week presents a great reminder for organisations to reassess their customer privacy policies and prioritise transparent data collection in their marketing strategies.

GUEST OPINION:  As authorities at home and abroad continue to enforce ever-more-stringent regulations, Australian businesses can ill afford to get it wrong

The Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre (Aus3C), in collaboration with CSIRO's Data 61 and the Australian Department of Home Affairs, has announced that it is working on the development of the Voluntary Data Classification Framework (VDCF) as part of Australia's National Cybersecurity Strategy.

COMPANY NEWS: Netskope, a leader in secure access service edge (SASE) and security service edge (SSE), today announced new enhancements to the Netskope One platform, extending the company’s data protection solutions to include integrated data security posture management (DSPM) capabilities.

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been one of the defining technological shifts in recent years, especially with the explosion of generative AI. Consequently, we have witnessed increasing concerns around risk and ethics when using AI. The challenge now is how businesses can implement the technology in line with business goals, and in a safe and responsible manner.

Award-winning cybersecurity and data protection tool safeguards data against modern cyber threats

COMPANY PRODUCT NEWS: Acronis, a global leader in  cybersecurity   and  data protection, is pleased to announce that its flagship product, Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office, is reverting to its original name, Acronis True Image, with the new version release. Users across the globe can now experience the latest release of Acronis True Image, featuring enhanced performance and cybersecurity capabilities to meet today’s cybersecurity challenges.

IBM has expanded its Australia and New Zealand senior leadership team with the appointment of Dane Gambrill as Principal, Security Business Leader.

Collaboration advances zero trust strategies with Chrome Enterprise, Google Workspace and Google Security Operations without the need for legacy VPNs

COMPANY NEWS:  Zscaler, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZS), the leader in cloud security, has doubled down on their partnership with Google to help organisations simplify and strengthen their approach to Zero Trust. The integration with Chrome Enterprise will provide hundreds of millions of enterprise users with advanced threat and data protection without the need for legacy VPNs or requiring additional browsers. In addition, the integration of Zscaler with Google Workspace helps prevent the exfiltration of sensitive enterprise data from apps like Gmail and Drive. And the sharing of Zscaler’s rich security telemetry with Google Security Operations enables organisations to strengthen their security operations, all from the cloud. This work with Google further strengthens Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange platform.

COMPANY NEWS:  New partnership reinforces Hitachi Vantara defence-in-depth strategic approach, combining company's infrastructure expertise with Veeam's data protection and ransomware recovery software

Arcserve has appointed industry veteran Chris Babel as Chief Executive Officer.

This year’s World Backup Day on 31 March serves as a timely reminder for organisations to “up their data protection game” by having the right recovery and ransomware protection capabilities, according to the latest protection trends report from Veeam.

Data protection specialist Veeam Software has extended a five-year strategic partnership with Microsoft to “innovate new solutions” for protecting customers by integrating its product family and Microsoft Copilot and artificial intelligence (AI) services.

Storage and networking hardware vendor Synology will be showcasing its enterprise-level products and solutions at JuiceIT 2024, at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre this week, and the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre next week.

COMPANY NEWS: 11:11 Systems, a managed infrastructure solutions provider, today announced that it has expanded its relationship with Amazon Web Services by joining the AWS Partner Network and will offer customers holistic data protection strategies that include additional Veeam Software solutions on AWS. The APN is a global community of AWS Partners that leverage programs, expertise, and resources to build, market and sell customer offerings.

A survey conducted for data security and management specialist Cohesity has found 78% of respondents say their organisation would pay up in response to a ransomware attack if it thought this would allow the recovery of data and business processes, or if the payment would result in faster recovery.

Security providers Rubrik and Zscaler are collaborating to to streamline data protection and compliance and boost cyber resilience.

Research conducted for security vendor Rubrik has found that only 16 percent of organisations that paid ransomware criminals were able to recover all their data.