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Over 80% of Australian knowledge workers note data security is extremely or very important when using AI-powered visual collaboration tools  

GUEST OPINION by David Torgerson, VP of Technology and Security at Lucid Software: : Lucid Software, the leader in visual collaboration software, has today released data from its latest survey which explores the sentiment of artificial intelligence (AI) among Australian knowledge workers. The research centred on the themes of AI adoption, usage, reception and security.

GUEST RESEARCH:  Inflation, inventory, and AI-driven strategies to shape peak season

GUEST RESEARCH:  Barracuda threat researchers have found that bad bots are evolving to become more advanced and human-like in their behavior in order to boost the chances of success in account takeover and other automated attacks. In a new report on bot activity over the last 12 months, the researchers also noted an emerging category of AI bots, which could be considered as “grey bots,” is blurring the boundary of legitimate activity.

Tenable, the exposure management company, has disclosed that its Tenable Cloud Security Research team has uncovered new attack techniques in Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) of popular policy-as-code (PaC) and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platforms. These can lead to compromised cloud identities, lateral movement, and data exfiltration.

COMPANY NEWS:  New Dayforce offering to help consolidate and automate communications, simplifying connection with past, present, and future talent 

GUEST RESEARCH :  Organisations are reassessing their cybersecurity budget allocations after taking 5.9 months to recover from incidents in 2024 - over a month longer than expected

GUEST OPINION: Too many Australian businesses still operate with a mindset of apathy or complacency on cyber risk.

• 22% of Australian workers have accrued over four weeks of annual leave, with older workers racking up higher averages than their younger counterparts
• The average employee has just under 16 days of leave due, taking total annual leave pay for this period to over $7,000 for the average full time worker entitled to leave loading*
• Three in five employees feel like they can’t take leave, with the primary reason being that they’re too busy
• Employees are feeling the pressure of the current climate, with 43% of workers feeling burnt out and four in ten saying their workload has increased since the last quarter

GUEST RESEARCH: Employees are hoarding their annual leave, putting added pressure on themselves and their workplaces, the latest ELMO Employee Sentiment Index (ESI) report found.

With retailers vying for attention, competition is fierce, and significant discounts are up for grabs. Aussies keen to save should avoid impulse purchases and take the time to research multiple retailers.

GUEST RESEARCH:  By 2026, 40% of net-new applications in APAC are projected to be “intelligent apps” that incorporate GenAI to enhance user experiences and create new use cases.

GUEST RESEARCH:  Survey of 286 Senior Enterprise Risk Executives Reveals Top Five Emerging Risks in the Third Quarter of 2024

• Entrepreneurs who choose to opt out of higher education are just as likely as those who pursue it to earn $180,000+ per year, GoDaddy research suggests
• Of those surveyed, one in five business owners in each group – those with and those without a degree – reported that they earn over $180,000 from their ventures
• The findings suggest that a “generational mindset shift” may be underway, with a fifth of entrepreneurs surveyed under 30 starting a business straight after high school and not moving onto university
• Over three-quarters (76%) of entrepreneurs surveyed who didn’t attend university say they are glad not to have the debt burden

New GoDaddy research revealed the proportion of Aussie microbusiness entrepreneurs without a degree who earn over $180,000 a year is almost the same as those who did attend university, highlighting that individuals who don’t pursue a degree may still find entrepreneurship to be a valuable and rewarding path.

Australian banks are failing to grasp the SME Banking opportunity, despite the rising importance of business banking to their bottom line – as a renewed regulatory focus on surcharges is set to change the payments landscape across the country, according to digital business transformation company Publicis Sapient.

GUEST RESEARCH :  CISOs around the world acknowledge waning confidence in securing today’s hybrid cloud infrastructure, shifting focus toward gaining visibility into all data-in-motion

• 39 percent of security teams in Australia report they were unable to detect a data breach with existing tools
• 71 percent of respondents in Australia believe that Zero Trust will be mandated by the government in the next two years
• 92 percent of Australian respondents agree that visibility into encrypted traffic is critical to cloud security

COMPANY NEWS:  The report found that 46% of organisations are using unmanaged users with long-lived credentials

GUEST OPINION:  A century ago, most students were confined to attending tertiary institutions in their immediate vicinity, which gave universities large catchments of students during each enrolment period, plus the few they were able to attract from interstate.

GUEST RESEARCH:  Only a third of organisations in Australia are preparing and have the necessary scale or technology to transition to post-quantum cryptography

COMPANY NEWS:  New analysis collaborated on with Paladin Global Institute highlights the critical need for developer upskilling to properly measure Secure-by-Design progress

COMPANY NEWS:  Check Point excels with collaborative tools, and received the highest possible score in 13 criteria, including Vision, Innovation, and Threat Intelligence

Nokia’s research arm, Nokia Bell Labs, and e&, a global technology group, announced today that they have signed a year-long, non-binding memorandum of understanding (“MoU”) for R&D collaboration to create AI-based use cases for strategic industrial sectors.