This Month
Westpac appoints new COO as Thursby exits
The bank has consolidated its group technology and operations divisions under a new COO but the exodus of former CEO Brian Hartzer's front bench continues.
- James Eyers and Paul Smith
New cyber security rules reset $8b cloud marketplace
The deregulation of government cloud security approvals is expected to be a boom for security assessors and will open the huge market to greater competition.
- Tom Burton
Watch: Future Briefing webcast on the future of work
Join experts from Australia and abroad in this special webcast exploring the future of the workplace.
- Alana Piper
Business must do more for customers’ cyber security, panel warns
The group advising on the government's cyber-security strategy calls for a more aggressive and front-footed approach to malicious activity.
- Tom Burton
Cyber-regulatory 'mishmash' exposes nation to attack
Australia lacks a cohesive unified approach to cyber regulation, with multiple standards and numerous regulators but none with overall responsibility, experts say
- Tom Burton
- Exclusive
- Digital transformation
Sensitive data to remain in Australia
Sensitive citizen data will have to be hosted in Australia while government procurements will look to promote Australian firms, in an overhaul to be announced today.
- Tom Burton
- Exclusive
- Business IT
IBM looks to feed Defence technology boom
After difficult times in Australia, IBM's local boss is seeing growth in Defence, AI and cyber security as the company tackles the ethical challenges of smarter systems.
- Paul Smith
DUG Technology launches IPO bookbuild; Canaccord Genuity on ticket
Perth-founded data analytics services provider DUG Technology has started building a book for its initial public offering.Â
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
Why a new approach to technology is crucial in IR reform
Workplace agreements struck up between enterprises, unions and staff rarely take into account the capability of a company's technology systems to implement them.
- Jarrod McGrath
COVIDSafe app best of class for privacy, says study
The COVIDSafe app has been rated highly for its security against its global peers, a University of Adelaide computer science school study shows.
- Tom Burton
June
Industry doubts over cyber defence cash splash
Australian cyber security experts and industry groups have raised concerns that new government cyber spending will not help businesses defend themselves better.
- Paul Smith
- Exclusive
- Lessons from Lockdown
'Never be the same': How Slack's CEO sees the future of work
Stewart Butterfield sees a future of flexible working, on-demand work days and virtual deals, but says he should have been more like Atlassian's bosses early in the pandemic.
- Paul Smith
- Exclusive
- Construction
Lendlease hails greatest construction innovation of the next 100 years
With "digital twins", Lendlease says it can model every aspect of new buildings before they are built, and detect problems in advance with artificial intelligence.
- Yolanda Redrup
AFR Future Briefing: unlocking the potential of distributed workforces
"Distributed Workforce" is a special virtual edition of our flagship Future Briefings event series on technology, transformation and the future of work.
- Alana Piper
CommBank using AI to help triage loan deferral customers
CBA is running machine learning models to help work out which customers are most in need of additional leniency amid fears of a pandemic-induced economic cliff come September.
- James Eyers
- Analysis
- Business IT
Slack's new product could kill email ... but it doesn't want to
Slack has launched a new product that lets people from separate organisations work and talk together, but its founder says he'll let email live for a bit longer.
- Paul Smith
- Exclusive
- Cloud
Big tech giants send Aussie cloud market past $1b
A COVID-19 era boost to the adoption of collaboration apps has fed into a boom year for the Australian cloud computing market. And serious money is being made.
- Paul Smith
Proptech consolidation as Yabonza expands
Yabonza CEO Mark Trowell forecasts further consolidation in proptech and says a "big momentum shift' is under way in real estate towards technology-driven solutions.
- Larry Schlesinger
Fraudulent invoices the new trend in business scams
Fraudulent invoices and demands for payment remain the biggest scam problem for business, says the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
- Tom Burton
NSW pushes for national cyber standards
The NSW government is pushing ahead with plans to create stronger cyber standards to apply to all businesses and government agencies.
- Tom Burton
