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GUEST OPINION:  Rapid advancements in technology are changing the way enterprises and organisations protect their people and property.

COMPANY NEWS:  Lumen Technologies has achieved the Palo Alto Networks NextWave Cortex XSIAM Select Specialisation Status in Singapore. This specialisation recognises partners who have demonstrated expertise in deploying and managing Cortex XSIAM, enabling them to help customers transform their security operations centres (SOCs). 

GUEST RESEARCH:  Survey of more than 7,300 professionals reveals:

• Physical security has evolved into a strategic business function, strengthening IT collaboration and decision-making
• Interest in adopting AI more than doubled among end users since last year
• Organisations want flexibility to deploy workloads on premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid model

• Business email compromise represents the biggest threat to the APJ region
• Cybercriminals break through language barriers in Asia with LLMs
  • 1700% rise in Japanese language phishing emails since September 2024^[1]
• Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups increasingly use generative AI to improve phishing and social engineering techniques^[2]
• Cloud migration and hybrid work open up new attack surfaces
• 65% of organisations spend 3-5 days longer to investigate cloud-based threats compared to on-premises environments^[3]
• 89% of organisations incur damage prior to the completion of incident containment and investigation^[4]
• Third-party vendors are the backdoor to high-value APJ targets
• 15% of data breaches attributed to supply chain related vulnerabilities^[5]
• Average cost of a third-party vendor and supply chain compromise soars to US$4.91million^[6]

Global AI for cybersecurity provider Darktrace, has highlighted the “most prolific cybercrime activities in the APJ region” in the 12-months to July 2025.

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT:  Microsoft Azure customers will gain access to the VAST AI OS, built for the demands of agentic AI in hybrid and multi-cloud environments

With Fraud Awareness Week here, we wanted to look at the sudden rise.  Here some comments from Knowbe4, Delinea and Rackspace Technology they offer timely insights into the operational aspects of fraud prevention, in line with this year’s theme, 'preventing fraud is a team effort – don’t sit on the sidelines'.

COMPANY NEWS:  Partnership aims to strengthen EKFC’s digital foundation with cloud-based Master Data Management, enhancing efficiency, transparency and sustainability across an operation that serves over 225,000 meals daily

COMPANY NEWS:  New partnership empowers organisations with access to rich data insights required to power AI apps that accelerate businesses outcomes

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT:  Industry finance director recognised for career success in scaling accounting, tax, internal controls and compliance functions as well as overseeing mergers and acquisitions

New system streamlines incident management, speeds up processing times and enhances road safety across Aotearoa

COMPANY NEWS:  Insights Agent Delivers Role-Specific Threat Alerts and Guided Remediation to Help Security Teams Beat Alert Fatigue and Respond Faster 

COMPANY ANNOUNCCEMENT:  Strategic collaboration pairs Azul’s Platform Prime with Cast AI’s Application Performance Automation platform to improve Java runtime efficiency, reduce compute waste and cut infrastructure costs by up to 80% 

Every October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it is a reminder about the importance of safeguarding our digital lives—at work, in the classroom, and at home.

Dealing with papers can be a drag. Between contracts, homework, scanned lecture notes, and countless reports, it doesn't take long before your computer space is cluttered and messy. I spent hours rummaging through disorganized files, renaming them to keep myself organized, and managing various versions to keep projects moving forward. The actual challenge arose whenever I had to merge all of it into clean files - work that ought to have been easy, but on most occasions became a frustrating task.

Pax8, the leading cloud commerce Marketplace, today announced Tom Gavin as the new Chief Marketing and Communications Officer. Gavin will be responsible for leading global marketing, brand, and communications, with a focus on amplifying the company’s story, shaping its voice in the industry, and accelerating growth through bold storytelling, customer advocacy and community engagement. His role will also include positioning Pax8 at the forefront of AI and managed intelligence, working with partners to help small businesses grow and adapt in the agentic era. Gavin will report to Nick Heddy, President and Chief Commerce Officer at Pax8.

Australian consultancy DevOps1 has acquired cloud engineering firm Innablr, marking a “major step in its strategy to build a scaled local alternative to the global system integrators” currently dominating Australia’s technology services market.

COMPANY NEWS:  Australian managed service provider and global leader in modern networking and security to deliver enterprise-grade security and networking in a single, streamlined solution

COMPANY NEWS:  Partnership extends SmartBear’s solutions to Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, and India, combining Adactin’s QA expertise with SmartBear’s testing leadership

It’s no secret how today’s business world is getting faster and faster with each day, which is why business security has been revolutionized in recent years to stretch far beyond simply locking up properties at night.

COMPANY NEWS:

New Capabilities in Log360 Tackle False Positives, Keep Threat Coverage Current, and Enable Scaling With Enterprise Demand

• Rule tuning and insights help teams prioritise high-value signals
• 1,500+ prebuilt and cloud-delivered detection rules are mapped to MITRE ATT&CK threat modelling framework and SIGMA
• Register for the launch session scheduled on September 30, 2025, at https://mnge.it/8gM
• Learn more about Log360's threat detection capabilities at https://mnge.it/Vi9