KPMG Australia News: Launches Cyber security solution with CyberHat – Cyrebro
Financial audit firm KPMG Australia and cybersecurity solutions company CyberHat have announced a partnership to create a cyber threat detecting solution, Cyrebro. The detection solution is specially designed to protect small and medium enterprises from cyber threat targeted at customers. As found in a survey...
NSW govt announces a record investment of $1.6 billion in digital projects
The NSW government has announced it will inject $1.6 million in its digital-centric fund, Digital Restart Fund, over the next 3 years to boost IT and digital projects. The news was revealed by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, Minister for Customer Service, Victor Dominello and NSW...
Macquarie Telecom Group announces a new data centre in Canberra
Australia-based Macquarie Telecom Group consists of Macquarie Telecom, Macquarie Cloud Services, Macquarie Government and Macquarie Data Centres. Through Macquarie Data Centres and Macquarie Government, Macquarie Group has announced a new data centre in Canberra – Intellicentre 5 (IC5). The Sydney-based telecom company will invest a...
Australia & India sign pact on critical technology & cyber resilience; both will invest $12.7 million
On 4th June, Australia and India signed a pact in which both countries agreed on spending $12.7 million on cyber resilience and critical technology. The pact was signed during the Australia-India Leaders’ Virtual Summit where both the countries joined hands to promote digital trade, harness...
Adapt to COVID-19 Crisis and Generate Demand
The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted the global market, and with its trajectory on the rise, businesses across the world are grappling with its devastating impact. In order to contain the spread of this virus, governments are adopting measures such as social distancing and quarantine that...
Data breach at Indian airline SpiceJet impacts 1.2 million travellers
SpiceJet is one of India’s biggest personally owned airlines. It encountered a data breach including the details of more than a million of its travellers, a security researcher told in a statement. The Incident & Its Impact The security researcher, who explained their activities as...
Lawmakers ask U.S. intelligence chief to review if TikTok is a public safety threat
Two lawmakers have urged the government’s most senior U.S. intelligence official to evaluate if video-sharing app TikTok could pose “public safety risks” to the United States. In a letter by Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Tom Cotton (R-AR), the lawmakers questioned the director of national...
Duality, a safety startup co-founded by the inventor of homomorphic encryption, raises $16M
The universality of APIs and cloud solutions have started up a world of exciting ways for businesses to build a service without having to create every part of it. However, they have unleashed something more, too: an extended risk of violations resulting from data being...
Symantec’s Sheila Jordan elected to Slack’s board of directors
Workplace collaboration software business called Slack has included Sheila Jordan as an independent member of its board of directors. She is the senior vice president and chief information officer of Symantec. The hiring started three months after the business achieved a direct listing on the...
Quantum Computing: A Comprehensive Guide
Introduction Today, it’s difficult to imagine life without computers. However, the computers we know today started its journey with a 19th-century mathematician named Charles Babbage. He was the first person to design the analytical engine that is the basic framework of computers of today. Computers...
