SAP has agreed to acquire Dremio, an open-source data lakehouse platform, in a bid to solve the data fragmentation problem that the enterprise software giant says is the primary reason AI initiatives fail in large organisations. Financial terms were not disclosed.
APRA has told banks, insurers and superannuation trustees that governance, risk management and operational resilience practices are failing to keep pace with the speed and complexity of AI adoption - and has threatened enforcement action against entities that do not address the gaps.
New Zealand law firm Buddle Findlay has warned that Kiwi businesses that hold or handle the personal information of individuals in Australia must prepare for strict new transparency rules regarding automated decision-making.
As enterprises accelerate deployment of agentic AI systems, Automation Anywhere has published a framework arguing that conventional sovereign AI approaches - focused primarily on data storage location - are insufficient for workflows where AI agents actively execute tasks across multiple systems and jurisdictions.
Gartner predicts that by 2028, an average global Fortune 500 enterprise will have over 150,000 agents in use, up from less than 15 in 2025, generating significant agent sprawl, IT complexity and management challenges.
Medical device manufacturer Medtronic has confirmed that an unauthorised party accessed data within its corporate IT systems, triggering incident response protocols and an ongoing investigation into the scope of the breach.
Australia Post has partnered with AI security firm Alpha Level to apply machine learning to cyber threat detection across its national network - including systems used by thousands of licensed post offices and small businesses.
A Harvard Business Review Analytic Services study has found that while 94% of organisations recognise connected data and workflows as critical to AI success, fewer than one in three say their systems are actually well connected today.
A NSW Treasury employee has been arrested and charged over the alleged theft of more than 5,600 sensitive government documents in what the state government has declared a significant cyber incident.
Victoria Police is taking an average of nine months to process Freedom of Information requests – unchanged since at least 2022, when it was attributed to COVID-19.
Stolen healthcare data is being traded through a mature global underground economy spanning ransomware groups, access brokers and fraud marketplaces, new TrendAI research reveals.
All 10 public universities in New South Wales have deficiencies in their IT and cyber security controls, the NSW Auditor-General has found, with weak management of legacy systems leaving the sector exposed to data breaches and system failures.
The Australian Government has signed its second Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft in seven weeks, this time covering cyber security, secure cloud and critical infrastructure resilience.
Nearly 80% of enterprise IT leaders say limited data access is constraining their AI and data initiatives, despite most organisations reporting active AI integration across core business processes, according to a new Cloudera survey.
Ask most people what Knowledge Management means and they'll mention a chatbot. Or a FAQ database. Or the system the contact centre uses to answer customer calls faster. They're not wrong. That is KM. But it's one room in a very large house. And while everyone's focused on that room, the rest of the house is quietly falling apart.
The regulatory gap that allows compromised Australian home devices to be weaponised in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks will remain open for the foreseeable future.
Neglecting semantics will cause AI agents to be inaccurate and inefficient, exposing organizations to wasted spending and increased data and AI governance vulnerabilities, said Gartner, Inc.
