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COMPANY NEWS:  Huntress has announced that it has entered into a strategic collaboration with CyberCert, the online certification issuer of the SMB1001 cybersecurity standard. The collaboration aims to deliver the dynamic cybersecurity standard, via the Huntress partner ecosystem, to businesses in Australia to increase their overall cyber resilience. Headed up by Huntress Regional Director APAC, Reece Appleton, and CyberCert Co-Founder & CEO, Peter Maynard, the partnership will offer SMB1001 certifications for a number of Huntress Managed Service Provider (MSP) partners.

Australian SMEs eye more automation as paying staff takes up to one week 

• 73% of Australian pay runs take longer than a day, with 95% taking up to 3 days to complete
• 89% of payroll professionals would like to cut down payroll processing times with AI and automation 
• Respondents see AI as an opportunity to improve data analysis skills (51%) and enhance payroll expertise (45%) 

Australian Cyber Security Centre research reveals that an Australian small business falls victim to cyber threats every 10 minutes. As SMEs increasingly digitise their day-to-day operations and rely on technology, cybersecurity has emerged as a make-or-break factor for SMEs' survival.

COMPANY NEWS:  Access4, the leading wholesale provider of voice and Unified Communication-as-a-Service (UCaaS) solutions, has announced that IT services provider, efex, will partner exclusively with the company as the voice backbone for its recently re-branded and expanded suite of affordable efex Comms cloud-based B2B communications solutions.

In the early 2000s, accessing the internet was through a dial-up connection which could take anywhere from 30 seconds to a couple of minutes to establish a connection. In 2023, generative AI tools can generate poems, short stories and complex legal and medical documents in a matter of seconds. 

PRODUCT LAUNCH: With Capacity Provided by Allianz Australia, the Company Brings a New, Comprehensive Digital Risk Management Solution to the Market to Help Businesses Improve Cyber Defences

Leading business management platform MYOB is proud to announce it has successfully taken out Canstar Blue's Most Satisfied Customer - Small Business Accounting Software 2023 award achieving a five out of five star rating in all categories including ease of use, functionality and value for money.

Cloud SMB ERP provider Wiise has announced its partner program, with KPMG Australia, Momentum Software Solutions, Solutions+, Stratus Consulting Group, and Wild Tech the first to achieve elite status.

D-Link has launched a new DSR-250V2 unified services VPN router with advanced features such as WAN failover, load balancing, and an integrated firewall. It easily provides secure communications for remote employees as well as branch-to-branch offices.

CIBIS International has launched a new enterprise cloud platform, Xpect, which is designed to fill a gap in the business management software market giving a viable alternative for SMEs to global ERP systems.

In a move aimed at making the country technologically independent, the Russian government will allocate 1 billion rubles (A$25.7 million) in 2022-2023 for the creation of small and medium-sized centres for the design of electronic, microelectronic and radio-electronic products.

A new white paper from ICT professional association ISACA addresses the importance of acquiring useful data and amplifying it as part of a cyber-risk quantification (CRQ) analysis.

Cisco ANZ vice-president Ken Boal says he was previously unsure about the company's ability to serve small and medium businesses, but now he has an "absolute passion" for the SMB market.

Software giant Oracle is looking to move downmarket with the opening of a cloud experience centre in Sydney for SME customers.

Extending its SME offering with new ReadyApps, Vodafone says it’s offering “Personalised service, flexible plans and total communications solutions for Australian small businesses".

iTWire met NetSuite chief executive Zach Nelson for a casual discussion about the company's growth, competition, customers and future. Excerpts:

It is aimed at small to medium businesses struggling to keep the IT lights on and under-equipped to keep on top of the rapidly evolving threat landscape and determine how best to protect their business.

Small business owners put employment flexibility at the top of their list as the best way to attract valuable talent and give them an edge over larger, competitor companies.

Service provider hosted apps and desktops are being taken up mainly by the top end of the SME market, according to Citrix.

The latest release of the Xero cloud accounting service includes the capability to issue and process quotes and estimates.