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GUEST INTERVIEW: Co-working spaces have been around for decades, with WeWork notoriously disrupting the industry so much its founder disrupted himself out of the company, so what is the antidote that delivers the highest level of quality for all business sizes while fostering an incredible community - and how did CreativeCubes.co come into being? Co-founders Tobi Skovron and George Garth join iTWireTV in conversation!

Charles Sturt University is now offering a Master of Professional Information Technology to bolster career opportunities, building on the five-year success of its postgraduate information technology course in Port Macquarie.

GUEST OPINION by cybersecurity firm Virsec: Organisations of every size and kind face constant challenges in maintaining adequate cybersecurity skills in the face of growing cyber risk. The existing shortage of cybersecurity skills and high threat levels have been exacerbated by COVID-19 and remote working, causing a rise in IT expenses. This issue is particularly acute in the government sector.

GUEST RESEARCH: Ping Identity (NYSE: PING), the intelligent identity solution for the enterprise, and Yubico, the leading provider of hardware authentication security keys, surveyed IT leaders across the globe, including in Australia, to determine their appetite for passwordless solutions. Overwhelmingly, the desire was clear to adopt more secure and convenient methods of passwordless authentication. They cited gains in security, productivity, and customer experience as key drivers.

Newly Released ExtraHop Cyber Confidence Index Report Reveals Critical Under-Investment in Crucial Areas of IT, Keeping Confidence Assessment Levels Low.

SECURITY: ExtraHop, the leader in cloud-native network detection and response, today released findings from a new survey that shows 85% of organisations in Asia Pacific were breached by ransomware at least once in the past five years, but only 28% publicly disclosed that an incident occurred.

COMPANY NEWS: Newly released ExtraHop Cyber Confidence Index Report reveals critical under-investment in crucial areas of IT, keeping confidence assessment levels low.

Australia’s small businesses are investing in their recovery, with the Commonwealth Bank saying that financing for equipment and machinery across the sector is up 17% so far this financial year, compared with the same period last year - and investing in IT is also on the investment lists for SMEs.

Last October, with great fanfare, Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews announced the Ransomware Action Plan, vowing to make it compulsory for businesses with an annual turnover of $10 million or more to report ransomware attacks.

GUEST OPINION: With data dependency at an all-time high for businesses, almost every company is looking to establish themselves as a technology-first company, similar to Amazon or Netflix.

The 6502 chip was used in many seminal computers - the Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit family, Apple II family, Nintendo Entertainment System, Commodore 64, Atari Lynx, BBC Micro, Kim-1, AIM-65 and others, and it is still sold today to enthusiasts. It's the chip that is being celebrated this World Computer Day, 2022, and there's a special free virtual event + networking on 10 Feb in the US (7am to 9am 11 Feb AEDT) - full details below!

GUEST RESEARCH: Claroty, today released research into the Global State of Industrial Cybersecurity 2021: Resilience Amid Disruption, which revealed the colossal impact of ransomware on organisations during 2021, with 80% of organisations in APAC affected by ransomware attacks and just over half (51%) paying the ransom.

There's now a single solution to manage all of the information in your organisation, structured and unstructured, with AI to classify it all, and it's an Australian success story making waves on the global stage doing what was once infeasible - and today, a must for every organisation.

There's now a single solution to manage all of the information in your organisation, structured and unstructured, with AI to classify it all, and it's an Australian success story making waves on the global stage doing what was once infeasible - and today, a must for every organisation.

COMPANY NEWS: Videonetics, world’s first AI & DL powered unified video computing platform (UVCP) development company, today announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Inflow Technologies, one of the India’s largest distribution companies, providing value added distribution of electronic security products, IT, cyber security, unified communications and collaboration to name a few.

Energy management and automation provider Schneider Electric has appointed Astrid Groves as general manager of IT and Edge in a move it says is designed to drive the business’s edge solutions offering and support the company’s channel partners for the Secure Power division.

The annual cybersecurity report from Acronis has arrived, showing companies, IT managers, remote workers and more seriously struggling with cyber fitness, packing on the security vulnerability kilos after 18 months on the COVID couch in what is a MUST READ report for every modern company.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Just as security is now built into products, services and businesses from the ground up, so too should important legal issues be considered when starting a business, employing staff, dealing with data, IP, working form home, data breaches, staff who leave and much, much more, as lawyer Nicholas Stewart explains.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Just as security is now built into products, services and businesses from the ground up, so too should important legal issues be considered when starting a business, employing staff, dealing with data, IP, working form home, data breaches, staff who leave and much, much more, as lawyer Nicholas Stewart explains.

The second in our series of articles featuring IT executives and the great advice their father gave them in life, as well as lessons they've learned from fatherhood (and have applied to their IT careers) is here, and this may yet grow to into a three-part series, but here's the next set of top tech commentary!

Earlier this year, iTWire ran articles celebrating International Women's Day and Mother's Day, celebrating female leaders and entrepreneurs, and sharing the best advice received from mums respectively, and we're doing the same for fathers and men this September and November, starting with Father's Day 2021.