A purge of legacy systems across Australia’s federal government would likely cost billions and remains unlikely. Still, the OpenAI Medicare breach has prompted an immediate stocktake of the outdated technology agencies run.
Nearly nine in ten senior executives believe a data sovereignty failure could cost them their jobs. Yet almost two thirds of their organisations have no formal sovereignty strategy, new global research shows.
Free market enthusiasts have long argued that private industry does things more efficiently than government. New research into data breach notifications in Australia provides a stark illustration.
Always-on AI agents that run on their own cloud computer are rolling out in ChatGPT. In organisations, they can be issued their own identity and credentials.
Australia’s Medicare system manages health and medical data for over 27 million people. So it makes sense there has been widespread shock at the news it was hacked by an OpenAI agent in June.
New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner has used compliance notices to dictate how a health agency must vet, contract with and monitor providers holding patient data. The move follows a breach affecting around 99,416 people.
Suncorp is projecting annual savings of 68,000 hours of manual effort after using AI to classify and name workers compensation claim documents. Daily document naming corrections have fallen by around 45%.
The financial services industry has become the most targeted by network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, new Akamai research has found.
ANZ organisations are reshaping resilience strategies as AI agents widen the attack surface, AvePoint ANZ Managing Director Max McNamara told a Sydney Gartner audience.
Australia's privacy regulator has opened consultation on guidance for new transparency rules. The rules will force organisations to disclose how they use automated decision-making (ADM) systems.
New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner has found both a major private patient portal vendor and the country’s central public health agency in breach of patient privacy laws, following a December 2025 cyber incident that exposed the sensitive records of nearly 100,000 people.
A terabit-scale DDoS attack took Australia’s largest privately-owned Web host offline on Saturday 23 May. The takedown has laid bare a regulatory gap that forces enterprise and government customers to fund the country’s DDoS defences themselves.
The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) concedes adoption of standards remains “sporadic” more than two decades after foundational digital health work began in Australia but claims a new framework will drive uptake.
Most organisations are accelerating artificial intelligence investment without the data foundations needed to support it, a global benchmark study has found.
More than half of enterprise AI projects are failing to deliver their objectives, with poor unstructured data management identified as the primary blocker, new Nasuni research has found.
The Albanese government's pre-election commitments to open government and transparency appear not to have made it through to key federal portfolios, which are failing the pro-disclosure obligations of the Freedom of Information Act according to the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO).
