Industry News
Cyber professionals urged to help shape future of the profession
Australian cybersecurity professionals, employers and educators are being urged to take part in the CyberPath initiative, which begins with a national survey. [ + ]
Red Hat expands collaboration with Google Cloud
Red Hat and Google Cloud have introduced joint solutions aimed at helping organisations accelerate application modernisation and the move to the cloud. [ + ]
Datadog launches AI-powered security analyst
Datadog's Bits AI Security Analyst promises to be able to reduce the time taken to investigate cyberthreats by up to 98%. [ + ]
BeyondTrust introduces tools for securing AI agents
Identity security company BeyondTrust has enhanced its Pathfinder Platform with tools designed to improve observability and security of AI agents and workloads. [ + ]
Oracle launching AI hub in Sydney
Oracle's AI Customer Excellence Centre in Sydney will help Oceania organisations build cloud and AI skills and pilot AI projects. [ + ]
Government announces Australian data centre expectations
The federal government has set national expectations for data centres, a commitment made under the National AI Plan. [ + ]
Secure Code Warrior launches trust agent for AI
Secure Code Warrior's SCW Trust Agent: AI solution can help organisations track AI-generated code to control software risk. [ + ]
CrowdStrike and NVIDIA develop secure-by-design AI blueprint
CrowdStrike has arranged to integrate its Falcon security platform into the open-source NVIDIA OpenShell run-time for autonomous AI agents. [ + ]
Akamai implements NVIDIA AI Grid at global scale
Akamai believes its implementation of the NVIDIA AI Grid reference design will enable enterprises to run AI workloads on global infrastructure at local speeds. [ + ]
Cloudwerx joins OpenAI Services Partner program
Australian company Cloudwerx has joined the OpenAI Services Partner program as it builds out its generative AI consultancy capabilities. [ + ]
Gartner predicts Australian orgs to spend $7.5b on infosec in 2026
Gartner has predicted that Australian organisations will spend more than $7.5 billion on information security in 2026, an increase of 9.5% from 2025. [ + ]
Sharon AI deploying massive NVIDIA B200 cluster
Neocloud provider Sharon AI is working with Lenovo to deploy a 1000 GPU NVIDIA B200 cluster at a NextDC data centre in Melbourne. [ + ]
Unit42 discloses severe flaw in Google's Gemini
Researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have detailed their discovery of a high-severity vulnerability in Google's Gemini Live in Chrome AI feature. [ + ]
Anthropic opening Australian office
AI safety and research company Anthropic is opening an office in Sydney to be able to better support its customers from Australia and New Zealand. [ + ]
Macquarie gets $200m investment from NRFC
Macquarie Technology Group is the recipient of the largest investment by the government's National Reconstruction Fund Corporation in a single company. [ + ]
