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Superloop Limited has appointed Dean Tognella as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), a role he has acted in since 23 October 2023.

COMPANY NEWS:  Global beverage company, Lion, has implemented Illumio Core to gain visibility over its IT infrastructure and contain cyberattacks.

Technology spend and value management company Apptio has promoted Pete Wilson to global business leader for ApptioOne based in Sydney.

COMPANY NEWS: Delinea, a leading provider of solutions that seamlessly extend Privileged Access Management (PAM), today announced new comprehensive white papers to help organisations prepare for new and expanded compliance requirements, reaffirming its commitment to extending thought leadership in PAM and empowering organisations with invaluable insights. 

Topics covered include Australian Essential Eight Compliance, New Zealand Information Security Manual, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority Cyber Security Risk Management Guidelines, and more

COMPANY NEWS: Delinea, a leading provider of solutions that seamlessly extend Privileged Access Management (PAM), today announced new comprehensive white papers to help organisations prepare for new and expanded compliance requirements, reaffirming its commitment to extending thought leadership in PAM and empowering organisations with invaluable insights.

Cloud security company Zscaler has appointed industry veteran Andreas Hartl as Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific & Japan as part of its strategy to strengthen leadership in the region.

COMPANY NEWS: Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions today announced the addition of a senior MSP sales executive to accelerate MSP sales.

Simon Ractcliffe returns to cybersecurity company Secureworks, this time, joining as ANZ and Asean regional managing director and general manager.

GUEST OPINION: It’s fair to say that there’s been a gear shift of sorts for the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the past 12 months with project re-prioritisation, skills shortages and the growth of hybrid work putting pressure on both employers and employees. All set against a backdrop of economic uncertainty.

About four pages in and I just knew that I was going to enjoy this book about the invention of the barcode and all the equipment required to support it.

After the recent changes in source code availability enforced by the IBM-owned Red Hat, enterprise Linux is likely to take a different path to that which it was following when the standard was being a downstream rebuild of RHEL, the chair of AlmaLinux OS Foundation, one of the distributions that sprang up after Red Hat discontinued CentOS, says.

Enterprise AI specialist Amelia has appointed Ashok Joshi to the role of presales solutions architect.

The number of organisations hit by the ransomware group Cl0p using vulnerabilities in the secure managed file transfer software MOVEit Transfer is now 546, the security firm Emsisoft reports, estimating that more than 37 million individuals are now affected.

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A biztech Web site has advanced the narrative that Red Hat's recent imposition of restrictions on access to RHEL source code has support from most open-source providers.

GUEST OPINION: Today, the buzzword that’s nothing short of a technological revolution is “Artificial Intelligence” (AI). Although it’s hard to deny that AI has brought many positive advancements across a large variety of industries, there is also some cause for caution. According to reports, there has been a 135% increase in sophisticated and novel social engineering attacks in the first months of 2023, which corresponded with the widespread adoption of AI-run application, ChatGPT.

The chairman of the board at AlmaLinux, one of the distributions that sprang up after Red Hat discontinued CentOS, has admitted that it would not be possible to continue providing a 1:1 binary copy of RHEL.

Database giant Oracle Corporation has joined the scrum of companies commenting on Red Hat's move to tighten its hold on the source code for its enterprise Linux distribution, claiming it appeared to be driven by a desire to eliminate competitors.

The third stage has been reached in camouflaging open source vendor Red Hat's new curbs on access to the source code for its enterprise Linux distribution.

Rocky Linux, a project set up by the founder of the CentOS project, Gregory Kurtzer, has outlined what it says are ways to legally obtain source code for Red Hat's enterprise Linux distribution, following that company's 21 June announcement about fresh curbs on access to the source.