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VENDOR NEWS SYDNEY, Sept 16 —The vast majority (83%) of C-level executives expect the changes they made in people, processes and applications as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic to become permanent (whether significant or partial), according to data from a report published today by Radware®.

SYDNEY, Sept 16 —The vast majority (83%) of C-level executives expect the changes they made in people, processes and applications as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic to become permanent (whether significant or partial), according to data from a report published today by Radware®.

Smart home devices and their apps represent a major weak link in the corporate cyber security chain as the lines between work and home life increasingly blur, according to one security firm that conducted a survey revealing 36% of Australian workers use personal devices to access corporate data – often via services and applications hosted in the cloud.

Why would security firms be keen to stop the advance of a brand of malware that is a major cash cow for them? Only a fool would want to stop that malware from making bigger and bigger inroads into the world of Windows users and that should be obvious to anyone with the IQ of the common cockroach.

Security practitioners need to shift from looking at external threats and concentrate on user behaviour as they access data, the chief product officer of security firm Forcepoint, Nico Popp, believes.

GUEST OPINION by Eyal Arazi, Radware: Migrating workloads to public cloud environment opens up organisations to a slate of new, cloud-native attack vectors which did not exist in the world of premise-based data centres.

INTERVIEW PROMOTION Glenn Irvine is the Head of Cloud and Emerging Technologies for Dialog Information Technology and is presenting a webinar explaining ways any organisation can move to the cloud.  Glenn will be speaking about the adoption of collaboration technologies and the analyst findings from Gartner and Forrester during the recent COVID crisis.

Australian companies are continuing to invest in emerging technologies amid the COVID-19 crisis, prioritising investments in AI, Cloud, Blockchain and Edge Computing, according to new research.

Australian-listed call recording vendor Dubber has announced availability of its services for cloud call recording and AI on business telephony and mobile services.

VENDOR CONTRIBUTION by Ryan Trost - Co-Founder & CTO, ThreatQuotient:  Businesses continue to place more and more data in the cloud, from personal details to intellectual property. The growing adoption of cloud-based solutions by businesses, whether for greater agility, data analytics or to support employees in accessing the data, for example when they were remotely or from home, also increases the risk of cloud attacks.

VENDOR CONTRIBUTION by Ryan Trost - Co-Founder & CTO, ThreatQuotient:  Businesses continue to place more and more data in the cloud, from personal details to intellectual property. The growing adoption of cloud-based solutions by businesses, whether for greater agility, data analytics or to support employees in accessing the data, for example when they were remotely or from home, also increases the risk of cloud attacks.

By Darren Rushworth, president, NICE Asia Pacific

VENDOR PROMOTION In the early stages of the COVID-19 lockdown, all attention was focused on how to implement business continuity plans to keep organisations up and running. This included putting provisions in place to let staff members work from home with little notice, including contact centre agents.

GUEST OPINION by ManageEngine product consultant Ashwin Ram: As the economy reopens, IT leaders are in the hot seat, charged with ensuring their teams and technology stacks can support recovery, growth, and an array of flexible working arrangements, writes ManageEngine product consultant Ashwin Ram.

VENDOR NEWS:  Denodo announce virtual roundtable in APAC region, focus on cloud and data virtualisation

Denodo, the leaders in data virtualisation, have announced a debate-style three-part Experts Roundtable Series, with the first event to be hosted in the APAC region. The round table will feature high-level executives and thought leaders from some of the region’s most influential organisations, debating the latest trends in cloud adoption and technologies altering the data management industry.

ASX-listed IT hardware, software and cloud distributor, Dicker Data has boosted its coffers, bringing in $1 billion in revenue for the six months to the end of June 2020 - an increase of 18.3% over the same period last year.

By Jonathan Andresen

GUEST OPINION Few would argue with Thomas Edison who said: “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

GUEST OPINION Few would argue with Thomas Edison who said: “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

Once again, a federal government cloud contract has been handed on a platter to the American firm Microsoft, without local firms even getting a look in.

India will experience its first decline in IT spending in the last five years, with expenditure in 2020 to reach US$83.5 billion, a drop of 8.1% year-on-year, the technology research firm Gartner says.

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT: 21 May, 2020: Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, is continuing to provide a range of artificial intelligence-enhanced and cloud-based innovations as a part of their COVID-19 response.