In Australia, we will need 19,000 cybersecurity professionals by next year, according to Gai Brodtmann, Shadow Assistant Minister for Cyber Security and Defence.

Microsoft has justified its bidding for a massive Department of Defence cloud contract, despite a number of its employees objecting to the company's participating in the effort to win the contract which is said to be worth US$10 billion over a decade.

UK-based specialist contact centre services and solutions company QPC has won a contract to deploy the Genesys PureCloud contact centre platform at Beyond Bank Australia as part of the bank’s multi-channel customer experience program.

Data-sharing governance platform Data Republic has announced a new de-identification and privacy-preserving data-matching feature known as Senate Matching, meant for users of the company's Senate platform.

Australian ICT industry executives and their counterparts around the world believe mobile computing will raise cyber security risks for organisations, with artificial intelligence topping the list as the greatest security risk, according to a new report.

Cyber security firm Bitdefender has released an updated version of its decryption tool for the prolific Windows ransomware known as Gandcrab, in collaboration with Europol, the Romanian police, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.

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