Australian Stories

La Trobe appoints esteemed expert Jill Slaw as Cyber Chair

La Trobe has appointed cybersecurity expert Jill Slay as Optus Cyber Chair to lead its virtual facility, enhancing its industry-engaged research and teaching.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Wed, 7th Feb 2018

Risk & Compliance

Mimecast doubles down on cyber resilience

Mimecast enhances its cyber resilience strategy with key hires: Janet Levesque as SVP of Systems, Risk and Security, and Marc French as Chief Trust Officer.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Wed, 24th Jan 2018

Global Stories

Distributed Denial of Service

The six key elements of a DDoS incident response plan

Incident response is too often an afterthought in the case of DDoS attacks. So, what does an effective Incident Response Plan look like?.

By Tim Murphy • 6 min read • Fri, 2nd Feb 2018

Multi-cloud

80% increase in cyberattacks: “Ultimately it is a race against time”

UK faces more than 10 significant cyber-attacks per week, according to Robin Jones, head of technology resilience at the FCA.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Fri, 2nd Feb 2018

Virtualisation

Red Hat to acquire CoreOS, expanding its Kubernetes operations

Red Hat is set to acquire CoreOS for USD $250 million, aiming to bolster its Kubernetes and container operations through this strategic purchase.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Wed, 31st Jan 2018

Supply Chain

Aussie tech company rubs shoulders with the best in Reuters top 100

Thomson Reuters has named Melbourne's Computershare among the world's top 100 technology companies, the only Australian firm to make the prestigious list.

By Patrick Martlew • 2 min read • Thu, 18th Jan 2018

Security Information and Event Management

Whitepaper: What is cybercrime doing closer to home?

This new report from Frost & Sullivan delves into APAC's cybersecurity maturity and includes a country breakdown and advice moving forward.

By Ashton Young • 1 min read • Thu, 18th Jan 2018

Gaming

CheckPoint aims to tackle mental health issues using video games

CheckPoint has unveiled its first trailer for a new webseries aimed at tackling mental health issues through video games, launching on 29 January.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Wed, 17th Jan 2018

Data Analytics

Make your SAP data work for you with the power of IBM

Don't let your data lake become a swamp. IBM and Advent One have created a solution for leveraging all that information.

By Ben Moore • 2 min read • Tue, 19th Dec 2017

Tech Data

Tech Data appoints new VP as they continue their APAC expansion

Tech Data appoints Samuel Poh as VP of operations, Asia Pacific, boosting their regional growth amidst recent financial fluctuations and expansion efforts.

By Ben Moore • 2 min read • Tue, 12th Dec 2017

Hyperscale

GovDC facilities ranked fourth in resilience test

Cloudscene analysed the resilience of 150 global data centre operators against Tier certification data through Uptime Institute.

By Kai Ping Lew • 2 min read • Tue, 12th Dec 2017

Malware

Businesses MUST prepare: World's cybersecurity big guns forecast 2018

What will 2018 bring? We've brought together a line-up of cybersecurity heavyweights to provide their opinions on various topics for the year ahead.

By Ashton Young • 5 min read • Mon, 11th Dec 2017

Hyperscale

List of world's most resilient data center operators released

The research included a list of 150 data centre operators, with the most resilient put into the top 50 list - who came out on top?.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Thu, 30th Nov 2017

Network Infrastructure

The network operator conundrum of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

When you think of the Fourth Industrial Revolution you most likely think about robots, driverless cars and mobile supercomputing.

By Kevin Martin • 6 min read • Wed, 29th Nov 2017

Stories from Other Regions

Malware

'Urgent call to action' for ASEAN nations - improve cybersecurity or face losing $750b

A new report is rallying for 'an urgent call to action' for ASEAN nations, saying that a 'radical agenda' may help defend against cyber attacks.

By Sara Barker • 4 min read • Wed, 31st Jan 2018

Hyperscale

CorpCloud rides wave of WA success with NEXTDC

NEXTDC partners with CorpCloud to expand its data centers in Perth and Melbourne, supporting CorpCloud's rapid business growth.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Thu, 18th Jan 2018

Hyperscale

Hong Kong company gets green light to build hyperscale data center in Mainland China

Chayora wins approval to construct a 300MW hyperscale data centre in Tianjin, marking its first major project in Mainland China. Completion set for late 2018.

By Julia Gabel • 2 min read • Wed, 17th Jan 2018