Organisations in Australia are forecast to spend about $5.1 billion on information security and risk management in 2021, about 7.3% more than in 2020, says technology analyst firm Gartner, adding that global spend is likely to be about US$150.4 billion, a rise of 12.4%.



BlackBerry’s latest innovations, BlackBerry Optics 3.0 and BlackBerry Gateway, offer a comprehensive defence against threats targeting devices, networks, and user identity.

Data management specialist Cohesity now offers its DataProtect backup product on an as-a-service basis hosted in the Amazon Web Services Asia Pacific (Sydney) region, and has extended the product to support Microsoft 365 applications.

The University of Oxford harnesses the technological prowess of Oracle to deliver Covid-19 analyses on an international scale. With this data, scientists can study the data and the potential impact of Covid-19 variants on vaccines and treatment effectiveness.

Reset Australia’s report found that anti-vaccine sentiments and misinformation rose among Facebook groups in the country. As conspiracies sway the public, Reset Australia developed a policy to counter these false claims.

Android malware, which has been given the name Flubot, has spread across a number of unspecified European countries, the Slovakian security firm ESET says, adding that once infected, the entire device is open to the malware.

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