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Survey reveals urgent need for prioritisation of network and security architecture transformation and adoption of a Zero Trust ‘Resilient by Design’ approach for cyber resilience strategies in the face of inevitable future attacks

• 75% of Australian organisations expect to experience a significant failure scenario in the next year.
• 97% of Australian IT leaders ‘believe’ their current cyber resilience measures are effective, yet ransomware attacks continue to rise and cost organisations billions of dollars per year.
• But only 32% say their cyber resilience strategy is up-to-date in preparation for modern attacks in response to the rise of AI
• Australian organisations must more closely examine their ability to respond to advanced cyber breaches, which allow threat actors to access systems, move laterally, and steal sensitive data.

New Application Extends Zscaler Exposure Management Solution, Providing a Single Platform for Asset Risk Management, Prioritisation and Quantification

GUEST OPINION:  The IT world is currently in the middle of an ‘AI rush,’ and we have just been hit by a new wave with the launch of DeepSeek, an open-source AI-powered chatbot that claims to rival OpenAI’s architecture. With any new artificial intelligence innovation, we must also discuss its potential data privacy impact. Coming off the recent Data Privacy Day, now is the time to take a closer look at the potential of this new AI tool and its related data protection considerations.

COMPANY NEWS: Popular generative AI security analyst can now be used to speed cybersecurity investigations and simplify threat hunting across a growing list of native and third-party sources

The global leader in cloud security launched a new point-of-presence in Equinix’s Perth data centre to support growing customer base

Zscaler Copilot, Advanced by NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Delivers Security Controls to Proactively Defend Against New Cyber Threats

COMPANY NEWS: Zscaler, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZS), a leader in cloud security, today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to accelerate AI-powered copilot technologies. Zscaler will leverage NVIDIA AI technologies to deliver new user experience and security-centric copilot services to the enterprise. The introduction of new AI capabilities, leveraging NVIDIA NIM inference microservices, NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails, and the NVIDIA Morpheus framework, will dramatically increase the ability to process data from the Zero Trust Exchange™ platform, further enhancing Zscaler copilot’s ability to proactively defend enterprises against cyber threats and simplify IT and network operations.

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.

Cloud security company Zscaler has teamed up with CrowdStrike and Imprivata to deliver a zero trust cybersecurity solution from device to cloud that’s custom-made for medical institutions.

Security vendor Rubrik has appointed Kamal Elkhaili to the role of director of APAC channels and alliances,

New integration streamlines website access control with LogRhythm’s centralised data collection and automation

Security providers Rubrik and Zscaler are collaborating to to streamline data protection and compliance and boost cyber resilience.

Worldwide network security market maintained its ongoing rebound from the 2020 pandemic-induced recession with the eighth consecutive quarter of stronger revenue growth and the sixth quarter of double-digit revenue growth, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group.

GUEST OPINION by Steve Singer, Senior Regional Vice President, Australia & New Zealand at Zscaler:  The uptake of remote access technology in Australia has heightened vulnerabilities and risks for enterprises, across various sectors, including government departments and agencies. With a remote and hybrid workforce becoming the new norm, Australian businesses are facing a greater risk of attacks and exploitation by cybercriminals.

Security specialist Rubrik has appointed Arun Dharmalingam to the role of vice president of EMEA and APAC channels, alliances and global system integrators.

Cloud security specialist Zscaler has established co-located data centres in Canberra and Auckland.

Zero trust specialist Zscaler has extended its relationship with Amazon Web Services and announced changes to help enterprises securely accelerate their transition to the cloud.

COMPANY NEWS: Zscaler, the leader in cloud security, today announced newly advanced AI/ML innovations powered by the largest security cloud in the world for unparalleled user protection and digital experience monitoring. The new capabilities further enhance Zscaler's Zero Trust Exchange security platform to enable organisations to implement a security service edge (SSE) that protects against the most advanced cyberattacks, while delivering an exceptional digital experience to users, and simplifying adoption of a zero trust architecture.

COMPANY NEWS: Zscaler, the leader in cloud security, today announced its new Posture Control solution, designed to give organisations unified Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) functionality tailor-made to secure cloud workloads. Integrated into the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, the Posture Control solution enables DevOps and security teams to efficiently prioritise and remediate risks in cloud-native applications earlier in the development lifecycle. The completely agentless solution correlates and prioritizes risks, such as unpatched vulnerabilities in containers and VMs, excessive entitlements and permissions, and cloud service misconfigurations.

GUEST OPINION: I joined Zscaler in early 2022 in part because I wanted to work with a diverse APJ organisation which embraced collaborative thinking while providing the technology that allowed customers to interact securely in their world.

GUEST RESEARCH: Zscaler, the leader in cloud security, has released the findings of its annual ThreatLabz Ransomware Report, which revealed an 80% increase in ransomware attacks year-over-year. In 2022, the most prevalent ransomware trends include double-extortion, supply chain attacks, ransomware-as-a-service, ransomware rebranding, and geo-political incited ransomware attacks. The report analyses over a year's worth of data from the largest security cloud in the world, which processes more than 200 billion daily transactions and 150 million daily blocked attacks across the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange. The report details which industries are being targeted the most by cybercriminals, explains the damage caused by double-extortion and supply chain attacks, and catalogs the most active ransomware groups operating today.