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Tech conference for school-aged girls Go Girl, Go For IT will host more than 1,700 girls from over 70 Victorian schools with the aim of educating and inspiring female students to consider a career in STEAM.

IT services company Crayon announced the appointment of Mathew Howard as senior director of direct sales for the Australia-New Zealand region.

Content delivery network and DDoS mitigation company Cloudflare has opened four data centres in the past 12 months in Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart, and Christchurch—increasing its network footprint in Australia and New Zealand.

IT management provider Flexera plans to have a local instance of its Flexera One product up and running in the fourth quarter.

GUEST OPINION: Seeking to uncover the minds of CISOs and CIOs across Asia Pacific, my company recently asked Frost & Sullivan to take a snapshot of cloud adoption behaviour in the region.

COMPANY NEWS: After findings revealed Australia and New Zealand to have been the target of more than 50 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks between July and September 2021 alone, F5 has expanded its local DDoS protection services with the launch of two scrubbing centres to provide customers with real-time local protection, support, and expertise.

The last 12 months have seen normally stable Splunk go through a whirlwind of change in the top brass but new CEO Gary Steele says he sees his role as a 10+ year commitment and is here to stay, while new ANZ Exec Mark Troselj sees the region undergoing growth.

COMPANY NEWS:  SonicWall, a global leader delivering Boundless Cybersecurity, today announced the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) regional winners for the SonicWall Partner Awards for the fiscal year 2022. The award honours SonicWall’s top-performing distributors and partners that have made outstanding contributions to drive the company’s most successful year yet.

Value-added distributor Netpoleon has appointed Luke Scerri as its first CTO for ANZ.

One of Australia's big four banks, ANZ, has completed the first Australian dollar stablecoin payment through a public permissionless blockchain transaction.

Cloud security specialist Zscaler has appointed Heng Mok to the role of CISO for Asia Pacific.

Eighty percent of incidents reported to the F5 Security Incident Response Team in Australia and New Zealand in 2021 so far were DoS (denial-of-service) attacks, according to a cyber attack research conducted by security and delivery company F5 in collaboration with Effluxio.

Automation technology provider Elenium Automation has appointed Paula Dwyer as its chairman.

Businesses of all sizes recognise there is valuable information hidden within their troves of data, yet AWS research identified 62% of ANZ organisations have a basic or beginner level of data maturity. AWS wants to help and today announced it has brought its free Data Lab program to this region. iTWire has already tested it out and can tell you what to expect.

COMPANY NEWS: DevOps company Sysdig launches its SaaS offering in Australia and New Zealand, expanding the company’s footprint in APAC.

A parliamentary panel has delivered a riposte to Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn who has been pushing for the regulation of Apple Pay, saying it is not convinced that there is any need for regulatory intervention at this time.

The European Union is set to file an anti-trust suit against Apple over the NFC chip technology it uses for tap-and-go payments, a report claims.

The Technology Business Management (TBM) Council has formed an APAC chapter and appointed a regional advisory board loaded with executives from big-name Australian organisations.

Qualtrics has announced the expansion of its public sector operations to help governments across Australia and New Zealand improve the experiences they deliver to residents and employees. Qualtrics is used by over 150 government departments and agencies in ANZ, and over 750 globally.

Information technology (IT) channel companies in Australia and New Zealand are cautiously optimistic as they refocus on growth opportunities in 2021 and beyond after the unprecedented events of 2020, according to new research from non-profit tech industry trade association CompTIA,