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GUEST RESEARCH: In Australia's vast and challenging landscape, where bushfires, floods and other natural disasters frequently disrupt lives, the pivotal role of technology in emergency services cannot be overstated. However, an alarming statistic from SOTI's latest report, Digitizing the Frontline: Transformative Technologies in Critical Care, reveals that 97% of first responders encounter issues with their mobile devices, highlighting a critical need for technological transformation in the sector. This need is accentuated by Australia's unique environmental challenges, making reliable communication and device accessibility not just beneficial, but essential for effective emergency management—from prevention and readiness to response and recovery.

Security culture has increased year over year in ANZ, but remains behind the global average.  High risk industries like Government, Banking and Healthcare score well below global average.

Cybersecurity firm Claroty has released a new threat detection module within its Medigate platform, which it says will boost cybersecurity standards in Australian healthcare organisations.

GUEST OPINION:  Breaking a pattern of increasingly-disruptive digital incidents

GUEST RESEARCH: In August, Barracuda published its fifth annual review of reported ransomware incidents around the world, which showed how ransomware attacks hitting healthcare organisations had more than doubled since 2022. This finding was based on publicly reported incidents and is in line with other studies based on both reported and unreported incidents.

GUEST OPINION: It is a disruptive time in healthcare, with technological advancements driving many changes. Artificial intelligence (AI) holds particular promise in improving the patient and clinician experience, providing decision support, automating and accelerating tasks like clinical documentation, and aiding in planning and predicting organisational and patient futures.

Macquarie Cloud Services, part of Macquarie Technology Group, has expanded an agreement with Virtual IT group (VITG) to provide private cloud services for its healthcare clients.

Data, analytics, and AI platform provider SAS has announced the availability of SAS Health, an end-to-end enterprise solution for healthcare data analytics and automation to accelerate patient insights and care.

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.

GUEST OPINION: The healthcare industry has been transforming radically over the past decade with the common goal of improving the way health care is delivered to patients.

GUEST RESEARCH: Claroty, the cyber-physical systems protection company, today announced the release of the Global Healthcare Cybersecurity Study 2023, a survey of 1,100 cybersecurity, engineering, IT, and networking professionals from healthcare organisations, including 250 from the APAC region.

Samsung introduces two new display models, the HCU7030 and HCF8000, both designed for healthcare and hotel settings, to elevate viewer experiences.

GUEST RESEARCH: Radware, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, released its first half 2023 global threat analysis report.

GUEST OPINION: The importance of equipment performance varies from one industry to another and is usually concerned with a business's bottom line.

GUEST OPINION: All large-scale healthcare technology implementations involve significant change, with the right technology providing the potential to improve patient outcomes, optimise clinician workflows and secure cost savings.

Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC) has reinforced its support for the development of a National AI in Healthcare Strategy in response to publication of a discussion paper by the Australian Government Department of Industry, Science and Resource.

New report reveals threat actors are diversifying their tactics to bypass defensive controls

There has been a 40 percent increase globally in cyberattacks targeting government agencies and the public services sector, according to one intelligent security software and services company.

GUEST RESEARCH: As the healthcare sector moves to digitise processes and data there is an increase in adoption of technology in the workplace, challenging IT professionals to manage diverse portfolios of devices and significant security concerns. New global research from SOTI, The Technology Lifeline: Charting Digital Progress in Healthcare, highlights the scale of security risks, with 78% of global healthcare providers offering frontline services experiencing at least one data breach since 2021.

Australian social archiving platform Brolly has appointed open source cloud data platform company Aiven to deliver a data infrastructure platform to manage its database.

GUEST OPINION: Since Covid, lengthening wait times and waitlists for healthcare services have become common in Australia, and around the world, despite increases in healthcare spending.