The Victorian Government’s push to attract large international tech firms to set up shop in Melbourne has received a $90 million boost as part of the state’s 2017-18 budget....
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Cat Matson, one of Australia’s first city-based Chief Digital Officers recently signed up for a second two-year term – but being based in Brisbane she faces a unique challenge....
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Modern IT and communications systems are so complex that effective data security is possible only with a significant amount of collaboration between organisations. That’s the theme of consultancy PwC’s...
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The advent of mandatory data breach legislation has lit up the local market in cyber security insurance, but Australia remains ‘unsophisticated’ in its understanding of cyber risk, says an...
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Cicada Innovations is the jewel in the crown of Australian incubators, but you won’t find it on most maps of the Aussie startup ecosystem. It is the most successful...
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Israeli cyber security specialist CyberGym will open its doors in mid-July at Melbourne’s Docklands as the company pursues the Asia Pacific market for its intensive digital threat reaction training....
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Australia’s corporate regulator has inked a FinTech partnership with its counterpart in Indonesia in a “terrific validation” for the work of the local sector. The Australian Securities and Investment...
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Until boards of directors are grappling directly with cyber security rather than passing it off to technology departments, companies will struggle to attain any comfort on cyber issues. Cyber...
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has waved a wand and made politically troublesome 457 visas go away with a clever rebranding exercise, but IT employee advocacy groups say the new...
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Victoria’s competitive edge in the state-versus-state rivalry for tech and startup talent lies in its focus on innovation in regional areas not just its capital city, according to Innovation...
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Melbourne-based tech co-working space York Butter Factory is set to stake a major claim in Sydney, with a large expansion into the Australian Technology Park in partnership with property...
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Buoyed by its rather spectacular failure to ink a deeply flawed extradition treaty with China, the Turnbull government has once more charged fearlessly into fresh deals with the country’s...
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Industry Minister Arthur Sinodinos will deliver the opening keynote at InnovationAus.com’s Cyber Security – The Leadership Imperative 2017 forum in Sydney on May 3. The Cyber Leaders forum looks...
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The Attorney General’s Department plans to add as many as 12 million passport photographs to its Face Verification Service this year – one issue prompting calls for a Biometric...