Document & Records Management

A NSW Treasury employee has been arrested and charged over the alleged theft of more than 5,600 sensitive government documents in what the state government has declared a significant cyber incident.

Victoria Police is taking an average of nine months to process Freedom of Information requests – unchanged since at least 2022, when it was attributed to COVID-19.

A detailed guide clarifying how AI systems should process PDF documents has been published by The PDF Association. The FAQ warns that common ingestion practices risk information loss and hallucinations.

Microsoft is expanding its Purview Data Loss Prevention platform to intercept Microsoft 365 Copilot prompts that contain sensitive data, blocking AI-generated responses before they are returned to users.

Enterprise diagramming platform Lucid Software has launched an integration with Anthropic’s Claude AI, enabling users to search, create, and share Lucidchart and Lucidspark documents without leaving the Claude interface. The connector is built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard gaining rapid adoption as a mechanism for linking AI assistants to enterprise data sources.

A new agentic editing layer in Nutrient's document SDK lets enterprise applications automate multi-step document workflows - including data extraction, form filling, annotation, and redaction - under configurable approval policies, the company announced.

Organisations using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform can now deploy an AI-powered contract review assistant that analyses agreements, flags risky terms, suggests edits, and generates legal playbooks.

Western Australian local governments are failing to fix known IT security weaknesses, with 60 per cent of control flaws identified in 2025 carrying over unresolved from prior years.

Three-quarters of organisations are confident in their ability to secure unstructured data - yet more than two-thirds report less than 80% remains unprotected, a new industry survey has found.

A new capability from law firm records software vendor DocSolid allows scanning operators to automatically retrieve metadata from existing records management systems during large-scale physical records digitisation - without requiring direct access to those systems.

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