GUEST RESEARCH:  Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the ways of working for project managers, as revealed in a recent survey by leading software research site Capterra. Following a 16% annual growth rate, the AI market in Australia is projected to reach $9.5 billion this year.

GUEST RESEARCH: Barracuda Networks, a leading provider of cloud-first security solutions has released new research showing that lateral movement is the clearest sign of an unfolding ransomware attack, catching just under half (44%) of incidents. A quarter (25%) of incidents were detected when the attackers started writing or editing files, and 14% were unmasked by behavior that didn’t fit with known activity patterns. The findings are included in Barracuda’s annual Threat Spotlight on ransomware, which explores the main ransomware attack patterns over the last 12 months.

GUEST RESEARCH: Tenable — the exposure management company,has disclosed that its Tenable Research Team has discovered a critical information disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft’s Copilot Studio via a server-side request forgery (SSRF), which allowed researchers access to potentially sensitive information regarding service internals with potential cross-tenant impact. This vulnerability exists due to improper handling of redirect status codes for user-configurable actions within Copilot Studio. This follows the team’s recent discoveries of flaws in Microsoft’s Azure Health Bot service, Azure Service Tags and three vulnerabilities in the Azure API Management service.

GUEST RESEARCH:  Dynatrace also named a Leader and positioned furthest for Vision and highest in Execution in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms