Industry Insider

  • Ransomware is coming soon to a screen near you

    Ransomware is sinking its teeth into business data everywhere, with the threat continuing to evolve in new more sophisticated variants that encrypt individual files or even entire disks. To learn more about the challenge of defending against one of the fastest growing threats online, both for businesses and consumers, IDM spoke with Dr John Selby, a member of Macquarie University’s Cyber Security Hub established this year in Sydney in a $10 million joint investment with Optus Business.

  • 25 Exciting things to do with an Information Asset Register

    Information is a vital, perhaps the most vital, business asset for an organisation. Nearly everything an organisation does involves using information in some way. It is used to support effective decision making and facilitate ongoing operations and the delivery of programmes, products and services; it evidences practices and performance, business activity and transactions, rights and obligations. Information is the glue that holds an organisation’s structures and processes together.

  • Making information management real

    In the ECM space practitioners still talk about the same basic set of problems as they did back in 2000. The conversation hasn’t really progressed; it’s just gotten more complicated.

  • Federal ministers love WhatsApp. But what does the law say about it?

    Revelations that the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and cabinet ministers (including a specific Defence-related WhatsApp group) are using Facebook’s messaging system WhatsApp for confidential discussions have raised issues around cybersecurity. The use of WhatsApp by government officials also raises legal issues.

  • ECM innovators recognised at Collaborate 2016

    Victoria’s Wyndham City Council has taken out the first of four inaugural customer Innovation Awards presented by ECM solutions provider Objective at its at its annual Collaborate 2016 user conference, held in Sydney this week.

  • Study shows major losses from poor document management

    Imaging software developer Accusoft has released a data study uncovering standard workplace practices around document management. The report addresses common document management policies and offers solutions to create a more efficient, secure workflow.

  • Reengineering TRIM for NSW Government Dept.

    The machinery of government does not always run smoothly, particularly in the wake of the inevitable mergers and demergers of departments or agencies that take place after elections or ministerial reshuffles. This was definitely the case for one large NSW state government department, which faced a major challenge in 2016 to align two separate and unsupported deployments of TRIM for over 1800 users, while also preparing for a scheduled demerger of one of its agencies.

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  • Ransomware is coming soon to a screen near you

    Ransomware is sinking its teeth into business data everywhere, with the threat continuing to evolve in new more sophisticated variants that encrypt individual files or even entire disks. To learn more about the challenge of defending against one of the fastest growing threats online, both for businesses and consumers, IDM spoke with Dr John Selby, a member of Macquarie University’s Cyber Security Hub established this year in Sydney in a $10 million joint investment with Optus Business.

  • 25 Exciting things to do with an Information Asset Register

    Information is a vital, perhaps the most vital, business asset for an organisation. Nearly everything an organisation does involves using information in some way. It is used to support effective decision making and facilitate ongoing operations and the delivery of programmes, products and services; it evidences practices and performance, business activity and transactions, rights and obligations. Information is the glue that holds an organisation’s structures and processes together.

  • Making information management real

    In the ECM space practitioners still talk about the same basic set of problems as they did back in 2000. The conversation hasn’t really progressed; it’s just gotten more complicated.

  • Federal ministers love WhatsApp. But what does the law say about it?

    Revelations that the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and cabinet ministers (including a specific Defence-related WhatsApp group) are using Facebook’s messaging system WhatsApp for confidential discussions have raised issues around cybersecurity. The use of WhatsApp by government officials also raises legal issues.

  • ECM innovators recognised at Collaborate 2016

    Victoria’s Wyndham City Council has taken out the first of four inaugural customer Innovation Awards presented by ECM solutions provider Objective at its at its annual Collaborate 2016 user conference, held in Sydney this week.

  • Study shows major losses from poor document management

    Imaging software developer Accusoft has released a data study uncovering standard workplace practices around document management. The report addresses common document management policies and offers solutions to create a more efficient, secure workflow.

  • Reengineering TRIM for NSW Government Dept.

    The machinery of government does not always run smoothly, particularly in the wake of the inevitable mergers and demergers of departments or agencies that take place after elections or ministerial reshuffles. This was definitely the case for one large NSW state government department, which faced a major challenge in 2016 to align two separate and unsupported deployments of TRIM for over 1800 users, while also preparing for a scheduled demerger of one of its agencies.

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