A purge of legacy systems across Australia’s federal government would likely cost billions and remains unlikely. Still, the OpenAI Medicare breach has prompted an immediate stocktake of the outdated technology agencies run.
Nearly nine in ten senior executives believe a data sovereignty failure could cost them their jobs. Yet almost two thirds of their organisations have no formal sovereignty strategy, new global research shows.
Free market enthusiasts have long argued that private industry does things more efficiently than government. New research into data breach notifications in Australia provides a stark illustration.
Always-on AI agents that run on their own cloud computer are rolling out in ChatGPT. In organisations, they can be issued their own identity and credentials.
Australia’s Medicare system manages health and medical data for over 27 million people. So it makes sense there has been widespread shock at the news it was hacked by an OpenAI agent in June.
New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner has used compliance notices to dictate how a health agency must vet, contract with and monitor providers holding patient data. The move follows a breach affecting around 99,416 people.
Suncorp is projecting annual savings of 68,000 hours of manual effort after using AI to classify and name workers compensation claim documents. Daily document naming corrections have fallen by around 45%.
Artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has expanded access to a highly advanced model deemed too dangerous for public release, including Australia in the select handful of users. The large language model, known as Claude Mythos, is now being rolled out to an additional 150 organisations across 15 countries, including the Australian government and several local businesses, as part of Project Glasswing.
All 10 public universities in New South Wales have deficiencies in their IT and cyber security controls, the NSW Auditor-General has found, with weak management of legacy systems leaving the sector exposed to data breaches and system failures.
Stolen healthcare data is being traded through a mature global underground economy spanning ransomware groups, access brokers and fraud marketplaces, new TrendAI research reveals.
The Australian Government has signed its second Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft in seven weeks, this time covering cyber security, secure cloud and critical infrastructure resilience.
Nearly 80% of enterprise IT leaders say limited data access is constraining their AI and data initiatives, despite most organisations reporting active AI integration across core business processes, according to a new Cloudera survey.
Ask most people what Knowledge Management means and they'll mention a chatbot. Or a FAQ database. Or the system the contact centre uses to answer customer calls faster. They're not wrong. That is KM. But it's one room in a very large house. And while everyone's focused on that room, the rest of the house is quietly falling apart.
The regulatory gap that allows compromised Australian home devices to be weaponised in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks will remain open for the foreseeable future.
Neglecting semantics will cause AI agents to be inaccurate and inefficient, exposing organizations to wasted spending and increased data and AI governance vulnerabilities, said Gartner, Inc.
Artificial intelligence, post-quantum cryptography and the proliferation of non-human digital identities are driving a fundamental shift in enterprise cybersecurity risk, according to a new report by KPMG International. The Cybersecurity Considerations 2026 report - drawing on insights from more than 20 KPMG cyber experts and senior leaders from Google, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and ServiceNow - identifies eight priority areas demanding urgent attention from enterprise security leaders.
Anthropic has expanded Project Glasswing, its AI-powered cybersecurity vulnerability program, to approximately 150 new organisations across more than 15 countries - with Australia and New Zealand among the nations included in the second cohort, according to reporting by the Financial Times. Anthropic has not publicly confirmed the country list.
