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  • Bill Would Ban Agencies From Automating Decisions

    Commonwealth agencies would be barred from automating any decision that requires judgement, under a bill now before the House of Representatives. They would also have to publish the rules, weightings and test results behind every high risk system.

  • Chatbots Cave Under Repeated False Claims

    Large language models will abandon a correct answer if a user repeats a false statement often enough. Some will flip back and forth on the same claim within a single conversation.

  • Device Maker Rebuilds Supply Chain After Breach

    A cybersecurity incident that stopped a global medical device manufacturer from making or shipping product has ended with operations fully restored. The one clinical workflow it degraded is working again.

  • Canberra Hands Industry Data Classification Scheme

    Australian organisations now have a common vocabulary for describing how sensitive their data is. The same scheme sets out what protection each category warrants, and how that expectation travels when data is shared.

  • AI Systems Are Showing Staff Data They Should Not See

    AI systems inside Australian and New Zealand organisations are surfacing sensitive information to people who are not cleared to see it. The problem is now the second most common category of AI security incident in the region according to a new report.

  • NAB (Un)joins Global Cyber Defence Call

    National Australia Bank has been removed from the signatory list of an OpenAI open letter on cyber defence, two days after it appeared as the only Australian organisation endorsing the document.

Information & Data Manager

Objective Shares Slide as Defence Fallout Deepens

Shares in Objective Corporation have continued their slide since the firm announced on July 1 that Defence Digital Group would not renew a support agreement running since 1999. The company has since shed about 40 per cent of its value.

Information Barriers Leave an Email Gap

Organisations relying on Microsoft 365 Information Barriers to enforce an ethical wall should not assume the controls cover email. Testing has found the feature blocks Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint, but does not prevent email communication in Exchange Online.

Two Thirds of IDP Users Weigh a Change: IDC

Nearly two thirds of organisations using intelligent document processing expect to change their approach within a year according to new data from analysts IDC. That is heavy churn in a market the hyperscale providers currently dominate.

GRC Reporting Automation In New Partnership

Most vulnerability tooling stops at the report. A partnership announced this week is aimed at what happens next, using automation to prioritise and close gaps across infrastructure, platforms and applications.

NAB Joins Global Cyber Defence Call

An open letter signed by 127 technology, security and financial services organisations says the security posture most enterprises run today will not hold. AI-enabled attacks will overwhelm it within months, the letter argues. One Australian organisation has signed.

Enterprise AI Is Entering Its Poly-Model Era. The Hard Part Comes Next.

Enterprise attitudes toward artificial intelligence are starting to mature. For the past few years, much of the conversation has centered on increasingly capable AI frontier models: which one is smartest, which benchmark it leads, and which provider appears to have the strongest technology.