Over the past few months, generative AI has taken the technology world by storm. As per CB Insights, 2022 was a record year for investment in generative AI start-ups, with equity funding topping $US2.6 billion across 110 deals. Whether it is content creation with Jasper.ai, image creation with Midjourney, or text processing with Azure OpenAI services, there is a generative AI foundation model to boost various aspects of your business.

It may have difficulty predicting their arrival at times, but Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has determined that cloud is the future of Enterprise Document and Records Management, taking up a half-million dollar hosting deal with Micro Focus Australia

The NSW Department of Communities and Justice is underway with a major Legacy Data Migration Program which is retiring numerous historical platforms after extracting and transitioning critical legacy data to a modern, cloud-based analytics & reporting solution.

As we approach the middle of 2023, we thought it an appropriate time to reflect on the cloud security risks and threats that we have seen so far this year, as observed by the Orca Cloud Security Platform that continuously scans billions of cloud assets on major cloud service provider platforms. After careful analysis of aggregated scan results from January-May this year, the Orca Research Pod has identified the top five most common, yet severe, cloud security risks that are ubiquitous in many cloud environments.