Three ways Buy Now, Pay Later helps Australians build stronger finances Australians have done an incredible job managing their finances over the last few years. Despite a series of historic economic hardships, the Reserve Bank of Australia estimates total additional household savings hit A$200 billion in 2021 pushing household wealth to record heights. A revaluation and diversification of financial tools to help manage spending supported this […]
Effective leadership isn’t organic, it requires action February 17, 2023 By Future Women February often feels like the month when the year really begins. January passes before we have time to pronounce each syllable. Resolutions and grand professional plans are made, and lost, or perhaps placed to the wayside. And suddenly, we’re in February, working out how we can finally take them on before careers stall, people quit, […]
eBook: Data transformation – A must for digital government February 16, 2023 By Commvault Advocates frequently hype digital transformation as the panacea for all public sector challenges. From restoring trust in government to delivering evidence-based policy, ‘going digital’ is often the prescribed solution irrespective of the problem. For agencies to successfully meet digital government objectives, including openness and transparency, and being user-driven and guided by data, they must first […]
eBook: The CISO’s threat prevention guide February 16, 2023 By Zscaler The shift to hybrid work and cloud-hosted applications have changed how business resources are accessed. Users are using unmanaged devices over unsecured networks like public Wi-Fi to remain productive remotely or on the go, making the internet the new corporate network. This expands your one perimeter to thousands, making the castle-and-moat approach to security inadequate […]
The economic contribution of Indigenous business sector is growing February 13, 2023 By PwC Indigenous Consulting Australia’s Indigenous business sector has grown significantly over the past five years, both in terms of size and scale. This growth has created more jobs and generated significant wealth for individuals, families and communities. While this is a cause for celebration, maintaining this momentum will require a sustained effort, continued policy support and improved access […]
Cloud protection trends 2023 – what you need to know February 7, 2023 By Veeam Protecting your cloud data seems easy – just upload it to a hyperscale service provider like AWS or Azure and they do the rest, right? Not so fast.
Why the key to connected government is collaboration January 30, 2023 By Joshua Gliddon The last few years have been challenging for Australia and its citizens. We’ve had devastating floods and fires, the ongoing pandemic and now what seems like constant change and volatility from macro economic factors. In emergency situations, citizens rely on government agencies and departments for help both at the response and recovery phase: providing vital […]
Protecting sovereign capability with strong government and industry partnerships January 24, 2023 By Fortinet As the nation faces an array of complex security challenges in coming years, home affairs minister Clare O’Neil has announced a program to develop a new cybersecurity strategy to strengthen the country’s critical infrastructure and become the “world’s most cyber secure country by 2030”. O’Neil believes the new national strategy has got to be a […]
Policymakers in Australia learning from overseas best practice January 24, 2023 By Winston Churchill Trust Australia’s best policy practitioners and decision-makers know the benefits of drawing on overseas lessons and adapting them to the local context. Not only is it wiser but reduces the risk of unknown consequences when designing new policies for Australia if it’s already been tried and tested overseas with success. But how to gain such knowledge? […]
Why and how local communities must be part of new solutions in crisis management January 24, 2023 By PwC Australia With natural disasters expected to cost the Australian economy $39 billion per year by 2050, Australia must act now to radically rethink its approach to crisis management. For decades, first responder agencies – from fire and rescue, ambulance, police, hospitals, cyber security agencies to our community organisations and Defence Forces – have worked tirelessly to […]
Partner Content Think like a start-up to deliver high performing government services January 19, 2023 By Joshua Gliddon Citizens have high expectations for government services, but agencies and departments are, according to PwC Australia’s Citizen Survey 2022, falling back into pre-pandemic delivery models. In fact, the PwC survey found citizens are less likely to agree governments are exceeding their requirements in 2022 as compared to the same time last year. It’s for this […]
eBook: Five network security challenges and how to navigate them with Zero Trust December 15, 2022 By Zscaler For the past few decades, hub-and-spoke networks have extended the corporate network to remote users and locations, including branch offices. They were built and optimized to connect back to a centralized data center, where security resided. Since everything was a part of the flat network, security was designed to place a barrier between the trusted […]
eBook: Threatlabz Phishing Report 2022 December 15, 2022 By Zscaler Phishing has long been one of the most pervasive cyberthreats, and it grows every year. Phishing did not slow down in 2021: the Zscaler ThreatLabz research team saw a 29% increase in phishing attempts globally over the course of 2021 based on data from billions of blocked attacks across the Zscaler cloud. Phishing is rising […]
Partner Content When it comes to the public sector war for talent, flexibility wins every time December 7, 2022 By Joshua Gliddon Australia is in the midst of a jobs boom, and unemployment is at a historical low of 3.5 per cent, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. At the same time, there’s a skills crisis, with data from the National Skills Commission showing the number of skilled occupations experiencing labour shortages has nearly doubled from […]
Whitepaper: The future of government communications and collaboration strategies December 7, 2022 By RingCentral For many state and local government agencies, the global health crisis spurred a worst-case communications scenario. Not only were government agencies mostly unprepared to support a high number of remote workers, the legacy, on-premises communications infrastructure that supports them was exposed as incapable, irrelevant, and inaccessible to the people forced into remote work situations. New […]