Gartner analyst Douglas Toombs warns that 80 years of globally interconnected trade will not unbundle neatly in 18 months, and that much of what passes for ‘sovereign cloud’ today is little more than ‘sovereign washing’.
A cybersecurity breach at US-based learning platform Instructure has compromised personal data across Australian and New Zealand education institutions.
The NSW Government has downgraded the "significant cyber incident" declared following an alleged insider data theft at NSW Treasury, with the state's Chief Cyber Security Officer confirming the breach has been contained and remediation measures are in place. The downgrade does not close the matter - criminal proceedings, an internal investigation and continuing legal reviews of potential procurement impacts remain unresolved.
Organisations that deploy AI extensively in security operations have reduced the average time to contain a data breach by approximately 80 days and cut average breach costs by $US1.9 million, according to a new white paper published by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with KPMG.
Global advisory firm FTI Consulting has responded to rising client demand by appointing a dedicated Australia leader for its Information Governance, Privacy and Security practice.
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.
