Tag: PwC

Diversity a key for cyber skills

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s cyber security skills crisis won’t be solved by thinking conventionally and relying on traditional training methods or talent pools, said Sandra Ragg, Head of the Office of the...

Benchmarks a key to innovation

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Simply spending corporate funds on traditional research and development programs is not the best path towards business innovation, said PwC Partner Aaron LePoidevin. Instead, organisations need to embark on...

Look to ex-military for cyber skills

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia is in the midst of a cyber skills shortage, with available positions far outstripping the numbers of people who can fill them. The continuing debate around 457 visas...

Reskilling our future workforce

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There’s no argument that the world is in the middle of a major inflection point, as digital disruption changes industries, government and the way people work. However, as author...

Filling the cyber skills gaps

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australians are among the most cyber-aware users in the world, but that doesn’t mean the nation couldn’t benefit from a radical rethink of the way it attracts and trains...

Welcoming the arrival of robots

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Far from being the harbingers of doom for professional services, the pending arrival of machine learning and artificial intelligence-based automation tools will open up new opportunities for the sector,...

Ingram on benefits of disclosure

Posted on   |  by Andrew Ryan
The recent disclosure by the Australian Signals Directorate that a defence contractor had lost 30 gigabytes of sensitive, but not classified, data to hacking caused a flap in the...

The legal sector’s wave of change

Posted on   |  by David McClure
The fusion of legal services and digital technology is rapidly changing commercial law and the pace of change is set to explode as technologies like blockchain, contract automation and...

Steve Ingram’s cyber pathways

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There is a war for talent in the online security sector right now, PwC’s Asia Pacific Cyber Lead Steve Ingram says. Good people in cyber are both hard to...