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Business support data retention but nervy about cybercrime

As the Australian Federal Government poises to toughen laws to crack down on terrorist threats on home soil, a new survey has found that Australian corporates generally support the data retention proposals, but insist on strict safeguards to protect against the heightened privacy and cyber-crime risks, while harbouring deep concerns about the measure’s ‘knock- on’ costs.

NSW Parliament introduces new Bill to support ePlanning

On 22nd October an amendment of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Bill was introduced by Pru Goward (Minister for Planning) to the NSW Parliament. The Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment Bill 2014 facilitates the introduction of ePlanning for NSW via an online planning portal

Policy Patrol 10 boosts email security

Red Earth Software has released Policy Patrol version 10, the latest version of its email security software for Microsoft Exchange Server. Policy Patrol 10 offers increased protection from email security risks with improved anti-phishing and integrated multi anti-malware scanning, along with an improved user interface and new dashboard.

Commission fears for WA State records

The inability of the WA State Records Office to accept physical or digital records from government agencies has been highlighted as a cause for concern in the 2013/2014 Annual Report for the WA State Records Commission

Cooper Grace Ward moves to NetDocuments

Australian law firm, Cooper Grace Ward, has switched their document and email management from iManage to the NetDocuments cloud-based document management and collaboration platform.

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