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Digital transformation is reshaping industries, with organisations investing heavily in cloud platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and data analytics to drive growth, resilience, and agility. However, cyber security is too often treated as a downstream safeguard rather than a strategic enabler. According to a recent IDC report, sponsored by BDO, only 40 per cent of organisations integrate cyber security during the planning stage of digital initiatives. Most add security measures during execution or after implementation, significantly increasing the risk of costly and disruptive rework, project delays, and erosion of customer trust.

Wotton Kearney will replace legacy systems with an AI-powered platform to manage legal matters and client reporting. The Asia-Pacific insurance and risk legal firm has partnered with process automation vendor Appian to deploy a system called OSCAR (Organised System for Claims and Reporting).

If you've been following data governance discussions lately, you'll have noticed a troubling pattern: despite significant investments in governance teams, data catalogs, and policy frameworks, organisations are still struggling with the same fundamental challenges. Poor data quality, compliance violations, and that persistent lack of trust in enterprise data.

NSW Trustee and Guardian is restructuring its Information Management Team to eliminate paper-based workflows and address compliance risks stemming from a structure unchanged since 2009.

The world’s largest cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has experienced a major outage that has impacted thousands of organisations, including banks, financial software platforms such as Xero, and social media platforms such as Snapchat.

The recent AWS outage on October 20, 2025 was a wake-up call, but not a reason to abandon ship

Three-quarters of organisations have experienced AI-related security breaches while attempting to scale artificial intelligence deployments, according to a new report exposing widespread governance failures.

I was recently asked what impact AI will have on data governance and it got me thinking. Most teams I see still run governance the old way: central policy group, registers, manual checks. That worked when data moved slower. But the pace of delivery and the rise of AI has changed everything.

The Australian Digital Health Agency has implemented immediate upload of most pathology reports to My Health Record, eliminating previous delays that slowed clinical decision-making and care coordination across healthcare teams.

A dramatic rise in ransomware, DDoS attacks and credential theft are highlighted in the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC) Annual Cyber Threat Report 2024-25 as organisations face mandate to implement event logging and replace legacy systems