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Sovereignty by design: Building New Zealand's digital resilience
Disaster Recovery

Sovereignty by design: Building New Zealand's digital resilience

A mix of local and global systems could shield New Zealand services from cyberattacks and natural hazards while preserving control over critical data.

By Lewis Mills • 6 min read • Last week

Global Stories

Opinion stories

AI moves fast: are you training your people to use it wisely?
Risk & Compliance

AI moves fast: are you training your people to use it wisely?

Poorly designed compliance courses leave staff unprepared for AI-era judgement calls, increasing the risk of privacy, cyber and fraud lapses.

By Deborah Coram • 4 min read • 3 days ago
Small but mighty - micro data centres are the foundation of security and disaster recovery
Disaster Recovery

Small but mighty - micro data centres are the foundation of security and disaster recovery

Resilience-minded organisations are turning to compact edge systems to keep critical services running if cyberattacks, outages or floods hit.

By Kamil Kwinta • 7 min read • 3 days ago
SOCtoberfest: The four habits that stop most attacks - passwords, MFA, phishing and patching
Virtual Private Networks

SOCtoberfest: The four habits that stop most attacks - passwords, MFA, phishing and patching

Even small firms can cut breach risk sharply by enforcing passwords, MFA, phishing checks and patching, CISA says.

By Justin Carter • 7 min read • 3 days ago
E-Commerce Data Quality: Prepare for Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Customer Relationship Management

E-Commerce Data Quality: Prepare for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Poor customer records can disrupt orders, marketing and service just as Black Friday and Cyber Monday traffic peaks across eCommerce sites.

By Bobby Joseph • 9 min read • 4 days ago
The Hidden Cost of Supply Chain Complexity
Supply Chain

The Hidden Cost of Supply Chain Complexity

Hidden inefficiencies are forcing firms to spend more time reconciling data, and to absorb higher transport and inventory costs across supply chains.

By Daniel Kohut • 5 min read • 4 days ago
Pragmatic modernisation: The disciplines that transform cloud operations
Disaster Recovery

Pragmatic modernisation: The disciplines that transform cloud operations

Cloud teams can cut delivery delays and technical debt by standardising ownership, visibility and controls before complexity becomes entrenched.

By Michael Jarry • 9 min read • 4 days ago
From Payment Card to Digital Trust Infrastructure: How Cards Are Evolving
Payment Technologies

From Payment Card to Digital Trust Infrastructure: How Cards Are Evolving

Banks are using payment cards as trust anchors to link onboarding, wallet enrolment and fraud checks without adding more customer friction.

By Brent Bowen • 7 min read • Last week
Rethinking what happens at card expiry
Customer Experience

Rethinking what happens at card expiry

Banks are testing secure ways to collect expired payment cards and turn the recovered plastic into new products, benches and pellets.

By Karen Coe • 5 min read • Last week
Data Governance in the AI Era: Why One-Off Projects Fail
Data Analytics

Data Governance in the AI Era: Why One-Off Projects Fail

AI pilots are stalling because weak data quality and unclear ownership keep organisations from turning governance spend into measurable gains.

By Bobby Joseph • 8 min read • Last week
AI agents in IT service management and cloud operations
Risk & Compliance

AI agents in IT service management and cloud operations

Teams can save time on tickets, incident summaries and cloud cost checks, but production changes still need named human approval.

By Krunal Panchal • 5 min read • Last week
Everyone gets one Halloween a year. Finance teams get twelve
Accounts payable

Everyone gets one Halloween a year. Finance teams get twelve

Late-arriving receipts, approvals and invoices force finance teams into repeated month-end firefights, wasting time that should be spent on judgement.

By Tanu Kaushik • 4 min read • Last week
7 Steps to Implement Digital Identity Verification Successfully
Customer Experience

7 Steps to Implement Digital Identity Verification Successfully

Poorly designed checks can block genuine customers or let fraudsters through, so leaders need a risk-based verification flow that preserves conversion.

By Shivani Pimpili • 5 min read • Last week

Stories from Other Regions

Opinion stories

Cyber's failure of imagination relates to the cost of waiting
Ransomware

Cyber's failure of imagination relates to the cost of waiting

Australian organisations are paying millions more when breaches linger, making delayed cyber investment a boardroom problem rather than a technical one.

By Illka Gobius • 5 min read • 4 days ago
Gen Z in Australia: Why Customer Data Quality Matters
Customer Relationship Management

Gen Z in Australia: Why Customer Data Quality Matters

Poor customer records are distorting Gen Z marketing in Australia, driving wasted messages, failed deliveries and weaker segmentation.

By Shivani Pimpili • 8 min read • Last week
Australia's next infrastructure market may be underwater
Job Market

Australia's next infrastructure market may be underwater

Australia's ocean industries already generate $229 billion and 712,000 jobs, but funding for cleaner seas still relies on short-term grants.

By Montgomery Simus • 5 min read • Last week
Take a second. The trouble is, most of the risky decisions in your business happen faster than that
Identity and Access Management

Take a second. The trouble is, most of the risky decisions in your business happen faster than that

A months-long detection gap has exposed how AI agents and other non-human identities can reach sensitive systems before anyone notices.

By Nam Lam • 4 min read • Last week