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GUEST OPINION:  Following the release of the 2025–2026 Federal Budget, unified Cybersecurity platform, WatchGuard are calling on stronger and more targeted cyber investment for Australian SMEs to improve national resilience.

Mobile operator Vodafone Germany has launched a new cyber security centre in Düsseldorf to provide security services for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) throughout the country.

GUEST OPINION:  In the vast array of marketing techniques, Mailreach email marketing is still one of the mainstays that companies can use. It is a great means that for effective communication; it also encourages relationship development, trust, and sales.

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.

Australia's largest private e-commerce company consolidates multiple cloud workloads with Google Cloud to streamline infrastructure and enable faster, simpler adoption of AI for its customers

COMPANY NEWS:  Huntress has announced that it has entered into a strategic collaboration with CyberCert, the online certification issuer of the SMB1001 cybersecurity standard. The collaboration aims to deliver the dynamic cybersecurity standard, via the Huntress partner ecosystem, to businesses in Australia to increase their overall cyber resilience. Headed up by Huntress Regional Director APAC, Reece Appleton, and CyberCert Co-Founder & CEO, Peter Maynard, the partnership will offer SMB1001 certifications for a number of Huntress Managed Service Provider (MSP) partners.

Australian SMEs eye more automation as paying staff takes up to one week 

• 73% of Australian pay runs take longer than a day, with 95% taking up to 3 days to complete
• 89% of payroll professionals would like to cut down payroll processing times with AI and automation 
• Respondents see AI as an opportunity to improve data analysis skills (51%) and enhance payroll expertise (45%) 

Australian Cyber Security Centre research reveals that an Australian small business falls victim to cyber threats every 10 minutes. As SMEs increasingly digitise their day-to-day operations and rely on technology, cybersecurity has emerged as a make-or-break factor for SMEs' survival.

COMPANY NEWS:  Access4, the leading wholesale provider of voice and Unified Communication-as-a-Service (UCaaS) solutions, has announced that IT services provider, efex, will partner exclusively with the company as the voice backbone for its recently re-branded and expanded suite of affordable efex Comms cloud-based B2B communications solutions.

In the early 2000s, accessing the internet was through a dial-up connection which could take anywhere from 30 seconds to a couple of minutes to establish a connection. In 2023, generative AI tools can generate poems, short stories and complex legal and medical documents in a matter of seconds. 

PRODUCT LAUNCH: With Capacity Provided by Allianz Australia, the Company Brings a New, Comprehensive Digital Risk Management Solution to the Market to Help Businesses Improve Cyber Defences

Leading business management platform MYOB is proud to announce it has successfully taken out Canstar Blue's Most Satisfied Customer - Small Business Accounting Software 2023 award achieving a five out of five star rating in all categories including ease of use, functionality and value for money.

Cloud SMB ERP provider Wiise has announced its partner program, with KPMG Australia, Momentum Software Solutions, Solutions+, Stratus Consulting Group, and Wild Tech the first to achieve elite status.

D-Link has launched a new DSR-250V2 unified services VPN router with advanced features such as WAN failover, load balancing, and an integrated firewall. It easily provides secure communications for remote employees as well as branch-to-branch offices.

CIBIS International has launched a new enterprise cloud platform, Xpect, which is designed to fill a gap in the business management software market giving a viable alternative for SMEs to global ERP systems.

In a move aimed at making the country technologically independent, the Russian government will allocate 1 billion rubles (A$25.7 million) in 2022-2023 for the creation of small and medium-sized centres for the design of electronic, microelectronic and radio-electronic products.

A new white paper from ICT professional association ISACA addresses the importance of acquiring useful data and amplifying it as part of a cyber-risk quantification (CRQ) analysis.

Cisco ANZ vice-president Ken Boal says he was previously unsure about the company's ability to serve small and medium businesses, but now he has an "absolute passion" for the SMB market.

Software giant Oracle is looking to move downmarket with the opening of a cloud experience centre in Sydney for SME customers.

Extending its SME offering with new ReadyApps, Vodafone says it’s offering “Personalised service, flexible plans and total communications solutions for Australian small businesses".