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As the threat landscape continuously evolves, the call for robust data security solutions has never been more urgent. Today, Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK), a leading cyber security company, is proud to announce a strategic alliance with Deloitte. Together, the companies will collaborate to deliver advanced data security and management solutions, designed to help organisations to safeguard their data assets, helping business continuity and cyber resilience.

• Significant expansion of data protection and security across cloud, SaaS, and hypervisors including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, RedHat OpenShift, and more
• New Identity Recovery for Active Directory and Entra ID addressing the key vulnerability to business operational recovery
• Powerful new cyber resilience capabilities for faster operational recovery from cyber incidents, including machine-learning detection, orchestrated recovery, and Turbo Threat Hunting

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.

Gigamon, the leading deep observability company, has honoured its top-performing APAC partners at its 2025 Catalyst Partner Program Awards. Recognised for their pivotal role in enhancing hybrid cloud security, these partners are instrumental in delivering the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline to enterprises across the region.

Hybrid Active Directory threat detection and response specialist exceeds 3,000% growth over five years

Leverages the same platform that already delivers comprehensive protection of critical workloads – ushering in a new level of cyber resilience for customers and partners

Triple revenue growth, strategic alliances and refreshed partnerships drive for identity- driven cyber resilience for Australian organisations

COMPANY NEWS; Semperis, a pioneer in identity-driven cyber resilience, has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting Australian businesses in safeguarding their cybersecurity environment.

New research from AI-powered data security and management company Cohesity shows Australians are significantly more worried about the use of AI with their data than other regions. The study also shows the vast majority of Australians would think about terminating their relationship with a business that suffered a cyberattack.

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.

GUEST RESEARCH: Today, Commvault, a leading provider of data protection and cyber resilience solutions for hybrid cloud organisations, released its ANZ State of Data Readiness report 2024, revealing that businesses in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) face considerable challenges in quickly resuming operations post-cyberattack due to gaps in cyber resilience.

• New innovations in Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform provide more complete visibility across the enterprise to eliminate alert fatigue and illuminate security gaps freeing security teams’ to proactively improve cyber resilience.
• Platform launches in an era of increasing AI-augmented threats, with new research finding that 74% of security professionals believe these threats are already having an impact, but 60% report their organization is unprepared.

COMPANY NEWS: Darktrace, a global leader in cybersecurity AI, today introduced the Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform™. The platform includes Darktrace’s existing best-in-class security products supplemented by a set of new industry-first innovations and features, including for email and operational technology (OT).

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.

GUEST OPINION: The recent mass exploitation of critical vulnerabilities in Ivanti solutions have caused significant disruption for the company’s thousands of customers. This led to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issuing a directive to “all federal agencies to disconnect the impacted Ivanti products from their networks and perform additional forensic analysis and clean-up steps in case they’ve already been compromised.” But that’s just the disruptive effect the situation had on federal users. The incident is impacting countless enterprises as well, with Ivanti stating it has more than 40 thousand customers.

GUEST OPINION by Andrew Kay, APJ Director of Systems Engineering at Illumio: Overall, the new Mandatory Notification of Data Breach scheme (MNDB) coming into effect on 28 November is good news for Australian residents.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Martin Creighan discusses Cyber Resilience; A.I.'s role in exacerbating and defending against security breaches; Commvault's new cloud offering; Metallic AI; and how APAC partners can benefit from it all.

On September 27-28, 2023, DHS hosted the first Western Hemisphere Cyber Conference, which convened foreign government cyber leaders to discuss cybersecurity challenges and identify areas of collaboration.

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.

Bitdefender has unveiled GravityZone XDR, a native extended detection and response solution that correlates disparate threat directions from endpoints, applications, cloud, identity sources, and networks into a single actionable view. It is available as a SaaS solution and through Bitdefender MDR services.

Email security and cyber resilience company Mimecast is continuing its expansion in APAC by establishing an office in Singapore as a regional hub for focus on South-East Asia.

A second tranche of legislation on critical infrastructure is likely to be passed by the Senate this week after it was given the go-ahead, with minor tweaks suggested by a committee.