Displaying items by tag: Education

GUEST OPINION: The internet offers schoolchildren everywhere unprecedented opportunities for learning. In the classroom or at home, it provides vast amounts of essential information to support student course curriculum while also providing an essential place to communicate with fellow students, teachers and organisations across an ever-expanding range of platforms.

Canon Oceania has opened submissions for its 2022 Grants Program. This year, the company has introduced a new sub-category to its community grant, to specifically support the recovery of flood-affected businesses and community organisations following the recent devastating floods in Queensland and New South Wales. 

GUEST OPINION: Trellix, the cybersecurity company delivering the future of extended detection and response (XDR), conducted new research into the talent shortage afflicting the cybersecurity industry. Among the key findings, 85% of those surveyed believe the workforce shortage is impacting their organisations’ abilities to secure increasingly complex information systems and networks. Of the current workforce, 30% plan to change professions in the future.  

GUEST INTERVIEW: The idea of using private wireless networks instead of Wi-Fi, LANs or carrier-operated wireless networks has taken root in recent years. iTWIre discussed the issue with Federated Wireless CTO Kurt Schaubach.

GUEST OPINION: When senior business leaders think about cybersecurity, it's likely they are focused on the technical measures in place within their organisation that provide effective protection.

There is a lack of boardroom awareness of cybersecurity, and a broad assumption from executives that their company will never get attacked, despite rising ransomware incidences, impact, and cost, according to the findings of the third edition of Sophos’ survey report, The Future of Cybersecurity in Asia Pacific and Japan in collaboration with Tech Research Asia.

Technology services provider Atturra is now an Australia and New Zealand Tribal alliance partner.

Artificial intelligence is enjoying a huge resurgence, with the computing power of the cloud now able to bring life to machinery. Yet, many companies struggle to identify how to apply AI to their business. Educational assessment company Janison figured it out, allowing this Sydney-headquartered, ASX listed organisation to accurately score free-text exam responses in many languages around the globe.

From the SolarWinds attacks throughout last year to the influx of Apache Log4j vulnerability exploitations, the 2022 Security Report conducted by Check Point Research reveals the key attack vectors and techniques in 2021.

GUEST OPINION: Career progression is something never far from the mind of most IT professionals: will my current skills become obsolete? What skills will be in demand? What new technologies will emerge that will demand new skills? In short, what choices do I need to make for a successful and rewarding career?

Australia’s tech industry peak body the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) says its support for the growth of Australia’s ICT workforce has seen more than 1,340 Queenslanders participate in the two pilot Queensland Government supported ICT micro-credentialing courses in the past 12 months. 

With anti-bacterial coatings finally being applied directly to devices, as Dynabook's two new Satellite Pro models feature, as will the rest of Dynabook's range as new models are released, we learn about both models, great accessories, great results and a sneak peek into the future.

With anti-bacterial coatings finally being applied directly to devices, as Dynabook's two new Satellite Pro models feature, as will the rest of Dynabook's range as new models are released, we learn about both models, great accessories, great results and a sneak peek into the future.

RMIT University has joined the Adobe Creative Campus program, giving all staff and students access to Adobe Creative Cloud desktop applications, mobile applications, web services and resources.

This year's OWASP Top 10 underwent some significant restructuring. A few vendors offered their thoughts.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Juniper's quest to uncover exceptionally advanced, AI-powered wired and Wi-Fi connectivity is reaping rich rewards for enterprises, universities and organisations, with Dartmouth College an excellent example, as Juniper is set to speak at QUESTnet 2021 at QUT, Nov 29 to Dec 1.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Juniper's quest to uncover exceptionally advanced, AI-powered wired and Wi-Fi connectivity is reaping rich rewards for enterprises, universities and organisations, with Dartmouth College an excellent example, as Juniper is set to speak at QUESTnet 2021 at QUT, Nov 29 to Dec 1.

Secure Code Warriors integrates real-world coding simulations into its enterprise learning solution to aid developers in levelling up their secure coding skills.

COMPANY NEWS: Tribal, a leading provider of ed-tech solutions globally, has announced its partnership with the Māori Education Trust, New Zealand, and is proud to be supporting the trust through the Tribal Education Scholarship.

COMPANY NEWS: Tribal Group, a pioneer world-leader of education software and services, has announced the signing of a five-year contract with Laidlaw College for the deployment and ongoing management of Tribal’s student management system (SMS), ebs, and ontrack portals for staff, students and prospective students.