Displaying items by tag: Government agencies

Enhancing Threat Intelligence and Threat Detection in Australian Central Government Organisations

GUEST OPINION by Cyrille Badeau, Vice-President of International Sales, at ThreatQuotient: In an era where digital frontiers are continuously expanding and evolving, adaptability is critical for Federal, State, and Local Government Departments, and Agencies to secure their infrastructure and sensitive data. Progress and growth strategies must be aligned with defense against growing cyber threats.

Drone services provider Sphere Drones has secured a significant tender with the Western Australian Police Force (WAPOL) to supply drone-in-a-box and associated systems for their Drones as First Responder (DFR) program.

A new emissions reporting tool from Brisbane-based cloud-based Software-as-a-Service provider netBI is helping public transport authorities and operators by automatically producing reports across 100 different pollutant measures.

Following DroneShield’s recent $115m capital raise, the new site in Pyrmont, NSW, cements and scales DroneShield’s fully sovereign R&D and manufacturing capabilities

COMPANY NEWS: Australian-listed DroneShield (ASX:DRO) has opened its new headquarters, tripling its research and development (R&D) and manufacturing capacity to more than AU$400 million in hardware and software per year as the company works to convert a sales pipeline of over $500 million.

GUEST OPINION by Tim Hartman, Head of Solution Architecture, Australia & New Zealand, Infoblox:  Networking and security company Infoblox has said the Government’s new Cyber Security Strategy should encourage organisations facing threats to speak up and share their intel with their ‘neighbours’, including customers, likeminded companies, and the ASD.

Autonomous cybersecurity platform company SentinelOne Singularity has announced completion of the IRAP assessment for its XDR Platform, enabling it to work with the Australian government to improve its cybersecurity posture.

A significant percentage of organisations expose insecure or highly sensitive protocols, including SMB, SSH, and Telnet, to the public internet, according to the latest Cyber Risk and Readiness report from network detection and response specialist ExtraHop.

Australian businesses lost $227 million to payment redirection scams in 2021, a 77% increase compared to 2020.

Australian workflow automation software company Checkbox has appointed James Dougherty to spearhead its US expansion strategy, including building and scaling a local team following the company’s launch in the market earlier this year.

Commonwealth Bank is partnering with the Australian Business Forum (ABF) to present the inaugural SmallBiz-Week in Melbourne from 17-19 May 2022.

COMPANY NEWS by Dialog:   Dialog Information Technology, Australia's leading privately owned information technology services organisation employing over 1,200 consultants nationwide, announced today it can now provide the Google Workspace productivity suite, now with the IRAP Protected status for organisations in Australia and New Zealand.

COMPANY NEWS by Dialog:   Dialog Information Technology, Australia's leading privately owned information technology services organisation employing over 1,200 consultants nationwide, announced today it can now provide the Google Workspace productivity suite, now with the IRAP Protected status for organisations in Australia and New Zealand.

Monash University and the Provincial Government of West Java, Indonesia have signed a Letter of Intent to collaborate on developing new solutions to restore the Citarum River – one of the most polluted rivers in the world.

GUEST OPINION by Andy Mellor, regional vice president ANZ at Kofax: If you’ve ever gritted your teeth while listening to bad hold music, or cursed as you completed forms by hand, you don’t need to be told that sometimes, government process can be inefficient, complex and slow.

Facebook Australia has announced the expansion of its Local Alerts product to all eligible state and territory health, police and lead central government Facebook Pages.

Cybersecurity and data analysis firm Cynterra has won a major contract to provide the Australian Government’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) with a new generation Secure Internet Gateway (SIG).

The Australian Taxation Office’s (ATO) mandate for all federal government agencies to adopt e-invoicing by July 2022 will get cashflow back to small and medium-sized suppliers significantly faster than current invoicing processes, according to SAP Concur.

Global tech company Oracle has established a new whole-of-government (WofG) arrangement with Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) which it claims will bring increased cost-savings, efficiencies, and flexibility for government agencies, including state and territory governments and taxpayers.

Young people are reporting the highest losses to threat-based scams, with Australians having lost over $8.8 million to the scams so far this year, and people aged 24 and under reporting losing more than $4.1 million to the scams.

GUEST OPINION by Hyland: Hyland to host a free webinar on October 29^th, explains the importance of gover for government agencies.