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Proofpoint, Inc., a global leader in cybersecurity and compliance, today announced the appointment of industry veteran Nelson Soon as Vice President of Channels and Alliances for Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ).

Australia remained in the top three countries targeted by bad bots in 2023, representing 8.4% of all bot attacks globally and ranking third behind the US and the Netherlands, according to a report issued by Imperva, a Thales company.

Security risks, not only in owned infrastructure, but also from third-party devices that are connected to the network, are concerning 81% of telecoms professionals, according to global cloud security firm Thales.

Technology and security provider Thales' CipherTrust Cloud Key Management now supports hold your own key for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in all 45 Oracle Cloud Regions.

Tesserent shareholders and option holders have voted to accept the schemes of arrangement that will see the company acquired by Thales Australia, a subsidiary of French technology business Thales Group. The deal will see another Australian listed IT company disappearing from the ASX.

French multinational company and designer, developer, and manufacturer Thales has packaged forensic mobile solutions into an Evidence and Investigation Suite, offering a complete set of features supported by cloud-based solutions and compact multimodal biometric devices for faster crime-solving investigations of persons-of-interest.

Cloud assets are the most attacked targets in New Zealand, the global security vendor Thales claims, adding that 67% of businesses in the country suffered a data breach in their cloud environments last year.

Global security provider Thales has partnered with Google Cloud to build new data security capabilities powered by generative AI.

Global cybersecurity company Thales is proposing to acquire Tesserent, one of Australia and New Zealand's largest cybersecurity companies, in a deal which values Tesserent equity at A$176 million.

Information security and compliance cloud provider Qualys has appointed Richard Sorosina to the role of ANZ chief technology security officer, Frances Kwok to the newly created role of regional business operations manager, and Neil Chen to the role of technical account manager.

Over a third of Australian organisations (36%) experienced a data breach in the last 12 months leading 45% of IT professionals surveyed to believe that security threats are increasing in volume or severity, according to the 2023 Thales Data Threat Report, based on a survey of nearly 3000 IT security professionals in 18 countries.

COMPANY NEWS: BeyondTrust, the leader in intelligent identity and access security has delivered multiple product innovations through Q1 of 2023 to enhance its solutions and add advanced, customer-centric capabilities to its identity and access security platform.

COMPANY NEWS: Vast Data has launched the 4.6 and 4.7 versions of its software, marking the largest software release to date for the AI data platform company. The update comes as Vast has expanded its R&D team to around 300, making it a level of size and sophistication that puts it shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the world’s leading infrastructure engineering teams in the enterprise software and cloud infrastructure space.

COMPANY NEWS:  The new Thales multimodal biometric pod is an efficient enrolment and identification solution that helps smoothly manage travelers’ border and immigration processes. The combination of ‘iris & face’ capture and recognition capacities enables a fast and secure enrolment and ID verification at borders. The pod features a modern design that perfectly suits the authority’s needs in highly secure environments.

Thales has announced its CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager integration with the AWS External Key Store, itself introduced only this week at AWS re:Invent 2022 as part of the AWS Key Management Service. The integration allows organisations to retain control of encryption keys when migrating sensitive data to the cloud.

Cyber security company Claroty has appointed 15-year IT industry veteran CJ Radford as global vice president of channels and alliances.

COMPANY NEWS: Critical infrastructures and essential service industries have been placed in the spotlight over the past two years and, as a result, Australia has made great progress in addressing threats against vital elements of our economy and society, says banking services, digital identity and cybersecurity company Thales.

After two years of the pandemic, confidence in addressing certain security risks and threats arising from hybrid and remote work has improved among businesses and organisations in Australia, according to the 2022 Thales Access Management Index, which surveyed 2,600 IT decision makers conducted by 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Digital identity verification checks spending will reach US$20.8 billion ($30 billion) globally in 2027 up from US$$11.6 billion ($16 billion) in 2022 driven by the prevalence of digital services requiring onboarding and the growing requirement for more robust identity verification systems in the face of rising fraud, according to Juniper Research.

French multinational company Thales has unveiled a data cloud solution that will safeguard SAP customers’ sensitive data in SAP applications in public cloud environments.