Industry Insider

  • Human error is biggest data security threat

    Human error was the number one cause of data security incidents according to a new report released by the Privacy and Data Protection Team at US law firm BakerHostetler. In the incidents that the firm worked on last year, employee negligence was responsible 36% of the time. That was followed by theft by outsiders (22%), theft by insiders (16%), malware (16%) and phishing attacks (14%).

  • Auto-Classification Technologies and RFID Smart Docs

    Recent advances in auto-classification technologies have provided a substantial manual labour reduction for several companies related to physical preparation, classification and separation of documents into their operations. Although these advances have achieved tangible results in optimizing document centric workflows, there is still a gap in the aspect of classifying and tracking paper documents.

  • Bechtel signs on to the Aconex cloud

    Bechtel, one of the world’s largest engineering, project management and construction (EPC) firms, is moving to replace its internal document and record management systems to instead collaborate via the Aconex cloud.

  • Snowden investigator warns insiders are a critical cyber security risk

    Former senior US counterintelligence expert and Nuix executive, Keith Lowry says insiders represent one of the greatest but rarely mentioned cyber security threats to Australian government and corporate organisations because of their ability to access and exploit sensitive and critical-value data.

  • Automation is the way of the future

    Just under half (49%) of businesses in Australia are planning to automate business practices over the next 12 months, according to data from the Grant Thornton International Business Report, this number is only slightly behind the global average (56%).

  • Delivering Information as a Service at PTTEP Australasia

    Information as a service, or IaaS for short, is one of those bright new four-letter acronyms that means different things to different people. It’s a cousin of software as a service, SaaS, and it lies at the heart of the heart of where technology, information management and governance intersect today.

  • Nuix lets business users get forensic

    Nuix has launched a new Corporate Investigation Suite, a product bundle that makes end-to-end digital investigation capabilities accessible to non-technical users.

  • Total data market predicted to hit $US115B by 2019

    Consisting of data platforms, data management, analytics, and data mining the Total Data Market is expected to nearly double in size, from $60bn in 2014 to $115bn in 2019, according to analyst firm 451 Research.

  • NSW government outsources shared services

    The NSW Government has announced the outsourcing the functions of shared service provider to over 6,000 public servants, ServiceFirst, which will transfer to Unisys and Infosys by the end of 2015.

  • Wake up to needs of the Information Citizen

    Half of organisations will not have an information strategy that addresses the emerging role of information citizen through 2017, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that information is a key component of the Nexus of Forces and information strategies and the use of information are increasingly driven by - and driving - digital business.