Category: Technology

The not for profit technology leader of the year went to Andrew Dome, CDIO of Uniting NSW.ACT. The award was accepted on his behalf by Ramesh Raghavan, head of digital, innovation and experience at Uniting. (L-R) Ramesh Raghavan (Uniting), Velvet-Belle Templeman (iTnews), Andrew Philips (Freshworks) Source link

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is planning a major overhaul of its digital evidence-gathering environment, ahead of the late-2027 expiry of a $22.7 million contract with Nuix. The corporate regulator has started scoping a “high-level” architecture to support its digital forensics and eDiscovery capabilities, which it uses to collect and analyse evidence during investigations. ASIC is also set to tender for new early case assessment and evidence management software sometime in the next quarter. An ASIC spokesperson confirmed to iTnews that the architecture work will support the upcoming evidence management software tender later this financial year. “ASIC is undergoing a ... Read more

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will formally rebrand myGovID to myID in mid-November, about a year after it received the funding to do so. The ATO confirmed the timeline for the rebrand of the digital identity app on Friday. The tax office received $11.5 million in the mid-year economic and fiscal outlook (MYEFO) at the end of 2023 [pdf] to deliver the rebrand. The new name and logo surfaced in March of this year when the ATO applied to trademark a myID name and logo. “The rename aims to resolve confusion between the myGovID app and myGov, following a recommendation ... Read more

EU antitrust regulators have launched proceedings to ensure that Apple complies with landmark rules requiring it to open up its closed ecosystem to rivals or risk a possible hefty fine. Under the so-called specification proceedings, the European Commission will spell out what Apple has to do to abide by the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which came into effect last year. “Today is the first time we use specification proceedings under the DMA to guide Apple towards effective compliance with its interoperability obligations through constructive dialogue,” EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said in a statement. The EU competition enforcer said the ... Read more

US law enforcement has disrupted a second major Chinese hacking group nicknamed “Flax Typhoon” and wrested thousands of compromised devices from its grasp, FBI director Christopher Wray said. Wray, at a cyber security conference in Washington, said Flax Typhoon was being run by a Chinese company called the Integrity Technology Group that posed as an IT firm but also “collected intelligence and performed reconnaissance for Chinese government security agencies.” In an advisory also made public Wednesday, British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand cyber officials also accused the Integrity Technology Group of being behind the malicious cyber operation and said that, ... Read more

Commonwealth Bank is investing in its trading platform CommSec’s digital strategy, putting an emphasis on ease of use and personalisation. The share trading platform is searching for a technology lead to “re-imagine” its digital strategy under the leadership of CIO Sam Booyachi. The new “mini-CIO” will spearhead the development of CommSec’s digital experience, bringing “key features” into the CommSec app and website. These include continuing the beta launch of its app, which is now live on iOS, and is due to be made available also for Android. Speaking to iTnews, a CBA spokesperson said the beta includes features such as ... Read more

QUT has opened a new avenue in its multi-year digital connections program, using data and AI to improve the ability of frontline agents to support future students at the university. (L-R) Alex Calder (Accenture) and James Rail (QUT) Digital connections started in 2022, laying foundations including a core CRM based on Salesforce for Education, and creating a “true 360-degree view” of current and future students, as well as alumni. Program director James Rail told Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference that the intent was to elevate service centres into “experience centres through which we can drive better connection and relationships across key ... Read more

Our approach to security But how can you be sure that an MSP can deliver the goods and keep your organisation secure? Here are five core approaches Brennan take that consider the tactical, the practical, and the strategic. 1. Audits are sanity checks. If your business has been promised the world by an MSSP (and yes, even by an MSP), be sure to pressure test those assurances regularly, just as you would any other part of your business. Be it a penetration test, a risk assessment, or a maturity assessment, there’s always value in a second set of eyes. If your ... Read more

Commonwealth Bank has signed up to use EC2 P5 compute instances served out of AWS’ Sydney region, which it will use to power an “AI factory” aimed at moving faster with generative AI. The bank said in a statement that it is the “first local AWS customer” to use EC2 P5 instances in the AWS Sydney region. The instances, only relatively new, are powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, and intended for deep learning and other highly compute-intensive use cases. CBA has been keen to make a bank-wide play with artificial intelligence for several years, aligning with different ecosystems ... Read more

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