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Ping Identity, a leading provider of seamless and secure digital experiences, has been named an Overall Leader in the 2024 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass report on Passwordless Authentication for Enterprises. The report explores workforce-focused passwordless authentication technologies and shares guidance on the most effective solutions, with Ping Identity positioned first in Overall, Product, and Innovation Leadership for its comprehensive approach.

The au Domain Administration (auDA), the organisation that administers the Australian domain namespace, today launches the inaugural Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy Australia (APIGA Australia), an intensive two day event to be held in Melbourne over 20-21 November 2024.

• Created the Responsible AI Committee in FY2022/23 and has built a 7-pillar governance framework to evaluate AI innovation across its pocket-to-cloud portfolio.
• Made progress toward and is on-track to meet its 2030 emissions reduction targets, in alignment to the Science Based Targets initiative’s net-zero standard.
• Reported an industry-leading 29% representation of women in technical teams, fueling innovation and its smarter technology for all vision.

COMPANY NEWS: Today, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) has today published its 18th annual Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, further demonstrating its commitment to being a responsible corporate citizen with a vision to provide smarter technology for all. In this year’s report, the global technology powerhouse shared its progress toward 2030 emissions reduction goals, increased participation in the circular economy, industry-leading representation of women in technical roles 4, increased employee volunteerism, and proactive governance of AI as it works to become the leading provider and enabler of smarter AI.

OPINION  What's the winningist? In most data processing as with most engineering, we have a pretty reasonable idea about what most people want most of the time. Planes that don't ignore the pilots and the doors stay on, cars that don't turn off the brakes, banks that pay the bills when we ask them too etc. etc. With generative AI, not so simple especially in the world, the real world, of rotting data and hacked code and not enough money to polish it up.

The Missing Link, a leading provider of IT and cloud, cyber security and automation solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Cribl, the Data Engine for IT and Security. The partnership is set to transform operational efficiency and enhance data management for clients. It places a strong emphasis on data observability, ensuring the health and peak performance of client data systems.

Rosemary Sinclair AM will step down at the year’s end as CEO of domain administrator auDA.

GUEST OPINION:  With the pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development showing no sign of slowing, attention is now moving to the benefits and opportunities it can deliver.

GUEST OPINION: Microsoft Teams has revolutionised the way people work. The platform’s features allow for a lot of flexibility in how people collaborate and access resources. But many organisations are discovering, after a few years of experience, that flexibility needs to be balanced with control.

COMPANY NEWS:  

• BeyondTrust experts forecast future threat vectors most likely to affect organizsations worldwide in the New Year
• Top cybersecurity threats include the evolution of the AI threat, Exploit mapping for ransomware, and the death of dedicated apps

GUEST INTERVIEW: In this interview with Anthony Woodward, CEO of Logicalis, we learn about Logicalis itself; Logicalis’ recent global CIO Report (and how Australia fits into it); how malware and ransomware are dropping and what’s replacing them); why CIOs and CISOs are spending in the wrong place and the company’s focus on risk, governance and compliance.

GUEST RESEARCH: New Relic, the all-in-one observability platform for every engineer, published the 2023 Observability Forecast report, which examines the evolution of observability, its impact on the lives of technical professionals, and businesses’ bottom lines. The report reveals observability’s adoption is on the rise in Australia and full-stack observability leads to better service-level metrics, such as improved system uptime and reliability as well as security vulnerability management. Although respondents report a median annual outage cost of over $11 million (US$7.37 million) in Australia, organisations realised a 2x return on their observability investment.

Databricks has announced a raft of new and updated products, including the adoption of AI in various areas, new data federation capabilities, and a preview version of Delta Lake 3.0.

COMPANY NEWS: Cloudera, the hybrid data company, has outlined a path for enterprises to benefit from secure, trusted and responsible AI at scale. A new ready-to-use blueprint for Large Language Model (LLM) helps customers use generative AI based on their own data and their enterprise context with security and governance.

GUEST INTERVIEW: A hybrid cloud strategy is now the norm among larger organisations, and that that can lead to performance and security problems – but Gigamon can help.

The company's FY22 Annual Sustainability Report highlights its Future First strategy, focusing on issues that have the greatest impact on customers and key stakeholders, including a goal of climate-neutral operations by 2030

GUEST RESEARCH: Equinix has released its 2022 Sustainability Report which outlines progress toward the company's key environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals.

Exclusive: Commvault's latest State of Data Readiness report for ANZ reveals that the rate of data growth is slowing, but post-attack recovery times are increasing.

GUEST OPINION: While it never went away entirely, there's a resurgence in unsanctioned cloud apps and services in enterprise environments – and nuanced action from IT teams is required to address it.

GUEST OPINION:  As the threat of recession looms large, companies need strategies to protect their business and maintain revenue.  Last year, Deutsche Bank¹ forecasted that Australia would enter a recession in 2023, based on rising unemployment rates.

As a result of digital transformation, data has become perhaps the most important corporate currency, and according to experts at LiveRamp, effective management of data could be the difference between keeping your business afloat or not in a recessionary environment.

GUEST OPINION: As cybersecurity moves into 2023, the trends from the past few years remain firmly in place. Australian organisations are increasingly focused on optimising their use of technology, and on the convergence of operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT). There has been a rapid pace of innovation in these sectors, but with these evolutions security continues to be of utmost importance. In the coming years it will be more important than ever for companies to have a clear understanding of their operational technology assets.

Secure board management software platform provider OnBoard has appointed Martyn Chapman, a board governance veteran, as its new Chief Product Officer.