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The Australian Human Rights Commission was drowning in a sea of duplicates, tangled in nested folders and perplexed by lost documents. Funding shortfalls and other challenges saw the Commission unable to implement an EDRMS solution that was viable.

A fundamental shift is occurring in the global economy with respect to data. As it stands, only 30% of the global economy has been digitised, but 5G wireless networks and other high- speed telecommunications solutions will enable the digitisation of the remaining 70%, driving huge increases in data generation.

In 2018, the Australian Government released the new Protective Security Policy Framework. This framework aims to assist Australian Government agencies to protect people, assets, and information, as well as providing guidance on how to apply the framework’s requirements.

The Auditor General of Western Australia has called on state government entities to upgrade their information security practices, with a new report finding, in some cases, a complete absence of infosec policies.

Business continuity and disaster recovery solutions have been effective in reducing downtime from days to hours; however, modern solutions are typically reliant upon backup files which are normally inactive and need to be tested and restored. That takes time.

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