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Businesses face rising disruption unless seven basic cyber controls are properly integrated, tested and owned across identity, recovery and supplier access.
Only 5.2% of organisations in Australia and New Zealand have scaled AI beyond pilots, with structure and workflows proving the biggest barriers.
Operational downtime and safety risks are mounting, as Claroty says ANZ organisations lost an average USD $2.04 million per cyberattack last year.
Most enterprises are deploying AI agents in production without dedicated security controls, leaving a 40-to-1 gap between adoption and readiness.
Manual payroll checks are a growing liability for Australian SMEs, with the new link meant to reduce underpayments, audits and back-pay orders.
Canadian law firms can keep client files walled off, while choosing data storage and processing become key topic for AI in law.
Portable protection against battlefield drones may soon reach every soldier, after the Australian device won recognition for meeting a growing frontline need.
A looming 17,900-person shortfall in Australian accounting is pushing firms to use AI as a recruiting draw for graduates.
Buyers can now reserve MSI's first RTX Spark laptop, a 2-in-1 aimed at local AI work, with Australian pre-order extras worth AUD $179.
Foreign river pollution could lift plastic washing up on Australian beaches from 440 tonnes in 2020 to about 850 tonnes a year by 2050.
Australian workers in later careers are far less confident about their finances, as only 9% of 40- to 64-year-olds feel secure about money.
As AI adoption accelerates, most Australian CIOs now say they are more responsible for redesigning workforces than for running core IT systems.
The deal will broaden access to general practice software and lift Lanas' total New Zealand investment towards NZ$200 million over two years.
Security concerns are driving a split over autonomous AI, with 46% of middle managers wanting human oversight on sensitive IT fixes versus 24% of executives.
Home and small business buyers get more installation and coverage options, with Ring pricing its latest 2K models at AUD $179 and AUD $109.
The breach has intensified calls for mandatory licensing and faster incident reporting as unions warn advanced AI could undermine essential public services.
The membership aims to draw spending back into hospitality as banks trim card perks and Australia's interchange fee cap falls.
Despite leading on passkeys and MFA, Indian firms still face widespread AI phishing and deepfake scams that are undermining daily security practice.
Australian firms remain exposed as 43% reported AI-driven phishing attacks in the past year, while many staff still log in with passwords.
Rising infrastructure work in Queensland has prompted the consultancy to expand its Brisbane team to more than 24 staff since 2021.
