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Nobody's job: Australia's unregulated botnet problem

The regulatory gap that allows compromised Australian home devices to be weaponised in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks will remain open for the foreseeable future.

Anthropic Expands AI Cyber Defence Program to ANZ

Anthropic has expanded Project Glasswing, its AI-powered cybersecurity vulnerability program, to approximately 150 new organisations across more than 15 countries - with Australia and New Zealand among the nations included in the second cohort, according to reporting by the Financial Times. Anthropic has not publicly confirmed the country list.

Eight Cyber Priorities Every Enterprise Faces in 2026

Artificial intelligence, post-quantum cryptography and the proliferation of non-human digital identities are driving a fundamental shift in enterprise cybersecurity risk, according to a new report by KPMG International. The Cybersecurity Considerations 2026 report - drawing on insights from more than 20 KPMG cyber experts and senior leaders from Google, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and ServiceNow - identifies eight priority areas demanding urgent attention from enterprise security leaders.

Lack of Semantics Leads AI Agents Astray: Gartner

Neglecting semantics will cause AI agents to be inaccurate and inefficient, exposing organizations to wasted spending and increased data and AI governance vulnerabilities, said Gartner, Inc.

AI Bots Drive Surge in Banking DDoS Attacks

The financial services industry has become the most targeted by network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, new Akamai research has found.

Cyber Resilience Foundations Still Matter in the AI Era

ANZ organisations are reshaping resilience strategies as AI agents widen the attack surface, AvePoint ANZ Managing Director Max McNamara told a Sydney Gartner audience.

NZ Health Breach Prompts Privacy Reforms

New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner has found both a major private patient portal vendor and the country’s central public health agency in breach of patient privacy laws, following a December 2025 cyber incident that exposed the sensitive records of nearly 100,000 people.

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Clarra and NetDocuments Bridge the Document Gap

Legal teams managing complex litigation portfolios have long operated across disconnected systems - switching between case management platforms and document repositories to track obligations, deadlines and files.

Data Sovereignty Drives Hyland APAC Cloud Push

Hyland has significantly widened its presence in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, bringing new cloud infrastructure, major cloud partnerships, and a raft of AI platform capabilities aimed at organisations managing complex, document-driven compliance workflows.

Flexor Preps Unstructured Data for AI in Snowflake

A persistent barrier to production-grade enterprise AI - that agents lack sufficient business context to deliver consistent results - is the target of a new integration between Flexor’s AI Context Engine (ACE) and the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.

Nutrient adds agentic AI to Workflow platform

Document intelligence vendor Nutrient has expanded its Workflow automation platform with agentic AI capabilities. The vendor positions the product as an orchestration layer for document-heavy enterprise processes including onboarding, approvals, compliance and audits.

Pure Storage rebrands as Everpure

Pure Storage has rebranded as Everpure and completed its acquisition of data intelligence vendor 1touch. The company describes the moves as a pivot from storage hardware specialist to broader data management platform.

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