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IT education provider Lumify Learn has announced the launch of its Academic Accelerator program designed to bridge Australia’s digital skill shortage by forming more “employment-ready” IT professionals.

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GUEST RESEARCH: Rubrik, the zero trust data security company, today announced the Australian findings from its inaugural State of Data Security report, commissioned by Rubrik and conducted by Wakefield Research. Among the key findings regarding the most pressing challenge Australian cybersecurity leaders face in securing their organisation's data was "insufficient talent in IT and SecOps", cited by 26% of respondents as the top security challenge.

GUEST OPINION: Of all the challenges currently facing Australian CIOs, one of the most pressing is attracting and retaining people with IT skills and experience. Unfortunately, it’s a situation that’s unlikely to be resolved any time soon.

Dell Student TechCrew, a technical certification program by Dell Technologies, hones the IT skills of students by allowing them to be their school’s own tech support, and arms them with access to skills and training for future tech jobs.

GUEST OPINION: When it comes to technology, daily life for Australian mid-sized business are filled with both opportunities and challenges.

GUEST OPINION: Career progression is something never far from the mind of most IT professionals: will my current skills become obsolete? What skills will be in demand? What new technologies will emerge that will demand new skills? In short, what choices do I need to make for a successful and rewarding career?

ICT professional association ISACA has launched a new certification - Information Technology Certified Associate (ITCA) - for students, recent graduates and those new to the IT profession.

Australian businesses are being held back by the country’s tech skills shortage, with many businesses now looking to skilled migration and contract workers to lift pressure on their workforce needs, according to one recruitment firm.

A new traineeship program by Microsoft Australia, which launched in NSW in late 2018, will expand to South Australia in September this year. It is designed to help build workforce capability in information technology and cloud computing, and increase IT traineeships in the state.

The head of the Australian Information Industry Association, Ron Gauci, has sought an assurance from the re-elected Coalition Government that amendments to the encryption law, which was passed in December, will be adopted within its first 100 days of operation.

The Australian Information Industry Association has urged the Coalition to boost digital skills, innovation and government IT procurement in this year's Federal Budget.

The World Economic Forum, currently being held in Davos, Switzerland, has launched an IT Industry Skills Initiative designed to meet the global skills gap challenge and address job displacement arising from automation and the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The Tasmanian Government says 50 new IT jobs have been secured for the state as part of an industry assistance package of up to $1.36 million for a term of five years for DXC Technology to expand its enterprise delivery centre in Hobart.

 In an industry as qualified and competitive as IT, finding a way to remain in demand can seem like a moonshot, but what if we said it didn’t have to be that difficult?

The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has expressed alarm that Australia’s information technology skills have dropped from a ranking of 27 last year to 36 this year.

The Internet of Things might still be a buzzword for some, but in the business world, are Australian IT departments properly equipped to meet the IoT challenge?

The adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technology in Australia may be impeded by a lack of preparedness and insufficient skills amongst IT professionals.

Australia is bucking the global trend in declining public sector spending on IT and technology products, with federal, state and local governments here forecast to grow by 5.8% to $10.8 billion by the end of this year, and to almost $12 billion by 2019.

A team of software developers at Brisbane-based company NetEngine has initiated a crowd-sourcing project leveraging mobile and web-based applications to create reliable maps for the most vulnerable areas of Nepal affected by the recent earthquake.