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  • How Critical Industries Can Prepare for SOCI Act Reforms

    Our nation’s critical infrastructure is a highly connected system – one that supports and drives our day to day operations as businesses and as a nation. However, connectivity without security creates vulnerabilities that can have immense repercussions. With this in mind, the Australian Government has announced reforms to the Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) Act 2018 that will impose new obligations on organisations covered by the legislation to manage the security and resilience of owned assets.

  • Microsoft Teams Governance vs. Management: What’s the Difference?

    As a hub of collaboration, Microsoft Teams is home to critical organizational data that must be managed properly at all times. In order to utilize Microsoft Teams in a way that helps bolster your business, the implementation should always adhere to your organization’s goals and policies—which brings up the concept of Teams governance.

  • Cyber attacks can shut down critical infrastructure. It's time to make cyber security compulsory

    On May 7, a pipeline system carrying almost half the fuel used on the east coast of the United States was crippled by a major cyber attack. The five-day shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline resulted in widespread fuel shortages and panic-buying as Virginia, North Carolina and Florida declared a state of emergency. The attack highlights how vulnerable critical infrastructure such as fuel pipelines are in an era of growing cyber security threats. In Australia, we believe the time has come to make it compulsory for critical infrastructure companies to implement serious cyber security measures.

  • Pandemic Drives Up US Public Records Request Volumes

    The unprecedented events of 2020, such as the pandemic and civil unrest, are increasing the volume of public records requests and are sending processing times higher because of the complexity of audio, video and other large files. That's according to the first quarter 2021 Peers in Public Records (PiPR) Index from GovQA, an index that tracks US state and local public records trends.

  • ELO’s new ECM Suite – What’s new, what’s better

    ​There are a host of reasons to get excited about the latest release of the ELO Enterprise Content Management (ECM) suite, which offers a completely new user interface, additional business solutions and preconfigured workflows, that can rapidly introduce cost-effective automation to your organisation.

  • Do You Need a Chief Data Officer?

    Less than half of large companies have a chief data officer (CDO), according to the 2021 Gartner CEO and Senior Business Executive Survey. Does your organization need one?

  • A Work Anywhere Workplace is What Employees Actually Want

    As organizations around the world make plans for their people to return to the workplace, the latest research report from Accenture  finds that 83% of people say a hybrid work model is optimal ─ where individuals have the ability to work remotely between 25% and 75% of the time.

  • Top Four Reasons for Data Loss from Databases (and what to do about it)

    The need for data loss prevention (DLP) is well understood by IT security practitioners. As organizations embrace cloud-based managed database services such as Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift, these risks don’t go away, and in many ways become more serious. Although AWS takes the security of their infrastructure very seriously, it is up to individual customers to secure their own data and access to it.

  • Australian legal body moves to OnBase content services

    A significant state-based law society in Australia, initially founded by a select group of solicitors with the aim of meeting the evolving needs of business, government, community and individuals, has saved time and resources by deploying Hyland’s content services platform, OnBase.

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  • How Critical Industries Can Prepare for SOCI Act Reforms

    Our nation’s critical infrastructure is a highly connected system – one that supports and drives our day to day operations as businesses and as a nation. However, connectivity without security creates vulnerabilities that can have immense repercussions. With this in mind, the Australian Government has announced reforms to the Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) Act 2018 that will impose new obligations on organisations covered by the legislation to manage the security and resilience of owned assets.

  • Microsoft Teams Governance vs. Management: What’s the Difference?

    As a hub of collaboration, Microsoft Teams is home to critical organizational data that must be managed properly at all times. In order to utilize Microsoft Teams in a way that helps bolster your business, the implementation should always adhere to your organization’s goals and policies—which brings up the concept of Teams governance.

  • Cyber attacks can shut down critical infrastructure. It's time to make cyber security compulsory

    On May 7, a pipeline system carrying almost half the fuel used on the east coast of the United States was crippled by a major cyber attack. The five-day shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline resulted in widespread fuel shortages and panic-buying as Virginia, North Carolina and Florida declared a state of emergency. The attack highlights how vulnerable critical infrastructure such as fuel pipelines are in an era of growing cyber security threats. In Australia, we believe the time has come to make it compulsory for critical infrastructure companies to implement serious cyber security measures.

  • Pandemic Drives Up US Public Records Request Volumes

    The unprecedented events of 2020, such as the pandemic and civil unrest, are increasing the volume of public records requests and are sending processing times higher because of the complexity of audio, video and other large files. That's according to the first quarter 2021 Peers in Public Records (PiPR) Index from GovQA, an index that tracks US state and local public records trends.

  • ELO’s new ECM Suite – What’s new, what’s better

    ​There are a host of reasons to get excited about the latest release of the ELO Enterprise Content Management (ECM) suite, which offers a completely new user interface, additional business solutions and preconfigured workflows, that can rapidly introduce cost-effective automation to your organisation.

  • Do You Need a Chief Data Officer?

    Less than half of large companies have a chief data officer (CDO), according to the 2021 Gartner CEO and Senior Business Executive Survey. Does your organization need one?

  • A Work Anywhere Workplace is What Employees Actually Want

    As organizations around the world make plans for their people to return to the workplace, the latest research report from Accenture  finds that 83% of people say a hybrid work model is optimal ─ where individuals have the ability to work remotely between 25% and 75% of the time.

  • Top Four Reasons for Data Loss from Databases (and what to do about it)

    The need for data loss prevention (DLP) is well understood by IT security practitioners. As organizations embrace cloud-based managed database services such as Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift, these risks don’t go away, and in many ways become more serious. Although AWS takes the security of their infrastructure very seriously, it is up to individual customers to secure their own data and access to it.

  • Australian legal body moves to OnBase content services

    A significant state-based law society in Australia, initially founded by a select group of solicitors with the aim of meeting the evolving needs of business, government, community and individuals, has saved time and resources by deploying Hyland’s content services platform, OnBase.

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