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There’s been two major data breaches in Australia this year which have attracted plenty of media attention and customer outrage. The first was Optus in September, followed a month later by Medibank. In both cases the breaches impacted around 10 million customers for each company. For Medibank, this included exposing the private data of the

Technology is complex and fast-changing and many companies are struggling to manage their technology properly. Businesses can find themselves stuck in a rut maintaining outdated technology that is hindering performance. If you’re not using the right technology to meet your business goals, it’s likely a sizable chunk of your budget is being wasted. In-house IT

We all think we are invincible, that a terrible thing like being hacked or some sort of cyber-attack is never going to happen to us. The Optus hack has us all rethinking that! Business owners have moved from thinking “It won’t happen to us, we’re too small” and instead are asking “Are we protected?”, “What

It’s virtually impossible to conduct any form of business these days without the use of technology. At the current pace of technological development, more advanced ways of doing business are constantly being revealed. Below we’ve highlighted just some of the most promising business technologies that are coming our way.   Artificial intelligence (AI) Artificial intelligence

As more and more businesses rely on cloud-based and software as a service (SaaS) tools, security best practices are becoming even more critical. As passwords are the first line of protection against any unauthorised access to your business accounts and data, it makes sense to invest the time in creating a password policy for your

A geofence is a feature that defines a virtual boundary around a real-world geographic area. Every time a user enters or exits the boundary of a particular area, actions are triggered via a location-enabled device. For example, geofencing could be a digital fence around a particular work site. When employees are inside the fence, they

There has been a massive update to Apple’s iPhone software that makes it difficult for Facebook and other apps to track your data in the background. iOS 14.5 arrived last week and comes with App Tracking Transparency that will enhance the privacy settings for the company’s billion iPhone users. Until now, Facebook and other apps

As we begin emerging from a post-COVID environment, it is vital that workplaces don’t go back to their old ways or drastically change their current virtual habits. Instead they should prepare for a hybrid workplace that recognises the need for more flexible workplace arrangements and understands the importance of investing in easy-to-use worker-centric collaboration technology.