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Privacy team sizes have plummeted by more than one-third globally, with the median dropping from eight staff to five, according to ISACA's State of Privacy 2026 report released this week.
Services Australia has been criticised for failing to effectively manage the privacy of client information, with an audit finding critical deficiencies in risk management, data breach notifications and transparency.
IBM will acquire data streaming platform provider Confluent for $ US 11 billion. Confluent operates a commercial distribution of Apache Kafka, an open-source platform that enables realtime data streaming between applications and systems.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has announced it will conduct its first privacy compliance sweep in January, targeting approximately 60 entities across six sectors that collect personal information in person.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks jumped globally by 40% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2025, with security provider Cloudflare blocking 8.3 million attacks, averaging 3,780 attacks per hour - according to the company's latest quarterly threat report.
Organisations face rising threat from advanced malware hiding in encrypted traffic, according to WatchGuard's latest Internet Security Report. Security experts warn that attackers are increasingly using Transport Layer Security to conceal malicious payloads from traditional defences.
Barracuda Networks has launched a new AI-powered security assistant that enables faster threat identification and response while reducing the burden on resource-constrained security teams.
Optus Mobile has paid $A826,320 in penalties after scammers exploited vulnerabilities in its identity verification systems. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) found Optus operating as Coles Mobile breached telco anti-scam rules on 44 occasions between 23 September and 23 October 2024.
Sentra has launched an AI classification capability designed to identify sensitive information within unstructured data at enterprise scale. The vendor claims its specialised Small Language Models achieve 99% accuracy while processing petabytes of data.
Microsoft is including its Security Copilot AI platform in all Microsoft 365 E5 subscriptions at no additional cost. The rollout began on 18 November 2025 for existing Security Copilot customers with Microsoft 365 E5 licences.
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