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FTI Consulting Bolsters Governance Team

Global advisory firm FTI Consulting has responded to rising client demand by appointing a dedicated Australia leader for its Information Governance, Privacy and Security practice.

Canvas data breach hits ANZ education sector

A cybersecurity breach at US-based learning platform Instructure has compromised personal data across Australian and New Zealand education institutions.

NSW Treasury Downgrade Leaves Governance Questions Unanswered

The NSW Government has downgraded the "significant cyber incident" declared following an alleged insider data theft at NSW Treasury, with the state's Chief Cyber Security Officer confirming the breach has been contained and remediation measures are in place. The downgrade does not close the matter - criminal proceedings, an internal investigation and continuing legal reviews of potential procurement impacts remain unresolved.

SAP Targets Data Fragmentation With Dremio Acquisition

SAP has agreed to acquire Dremio, an open-source data lakehouse platform, in a bid to solve the data fragmentation problem that the enterprise software giant says is the primary reason AI initiatives fail in large organisations. Financial terms were not disclosed.

WEF Report Maps AI's Role in Cybersecurity

Organisations that deploy AI extensively in security operations have reduced the average time to contain a data breach by approximately 80 days and cut average breach costs by $US1.9 million, according to a new white paper published by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with KPMG.

APRA Threatens Action Over AI Governance Failures

APRA has told banks, insurers and superannuation trustees that governance, risk management and operational resilience practices are failing to keep pace with the speed and complexity of AI adoption - and has threatened enforcement action against entities that do not address the gaps.

Australia Post Deploys AI Machine Learning

Australia Post has partnered with AI security firm Alpha Level to apply machine learning to cyber threat detection across its national network - including systems used by thousands of licensed post offices and small businesses.

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Data Quality Scores Go Live in ServiceNow

Poor data quality is a leading reason AI initiatives stall in production. Enterprise teams using ServiceNow will now see data quality scores directly on assets in its Data Catalogue, before those assets power AI models or business decisions.

Panzura Targets Copilot Data Readiness for Enterprise

A persistent barrier to Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption in enterprise environments is the volume of unstructured file data that sits outside the system's reach - project files, engineering drawings and records stored in hybrid cloud file platforms that Copilot cannot natively query. Panzura's new product targets that gap directly.

ServiceNow Extends AI Governance into Microsoft 365

ServiceNow used its annual Knowledge 2026 conference in Las Vegas on 5 May 2026 to announce a sweeping expansion of its AI platform, positioning the company as the central governance and execution layer for all enterprise AI agents - regardless of vendor.

Cloudera targets AI and analytics modernisation

Cloudera has released a set of updates to its hybrid data and AI platform that extend vendor support through 2032, introduce on-demand cloud bursting, and add automated query optimisation for Apache Iceberg table formats.

Duck Creek AI platform targets underwriting and claims

Duck Creek Technologies has launched an insurance-specific agentic AI platform designed to deploy, orchestrate, and govern AI agents across property and casualty workflows - targeting what Boston Consulting Group estimates could represent up to $80 billion in annual industry impact in the United States alone.

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