Australian stories - Page 3

Xero's Anthropic tie-up deepens finance software AI split as groups weigh integrated platforms against agent tools that work across multiple systems.

Blackpepper turns to Fastly's Next-Gen WAF as online retail traffic surges and attack threats rise across its AWS-driven eCommerce sites.

Customer Science appoints James Johnstone to its new Chief Operating Officer role as it accelerates UK and US expansion after rapid Australian growth.

ADAPTOVATE taps transformation veteran Jim Cundiff as Managing Director and Partner to deepen North American growth and its AI consulting push.

System1 adds AI-led reporting and predictive tools to Test Your Ad, aiming to speed up creative analysis while keeping consumer testing central.

Trintech expands embedded AI across close processes with Beacon assistant, aiming to speed journal entries, matching and risk checks.

Aspire taps J.P. Morgan Payments for cross-border FX as the Singapore fintech expands wallet conversions in SGD, USD, GBP, EUR and HKD.

UK enterprises press ahead with AI deployment as 94% warn of sprawl, while integration issues and legacy data remain major hurdles.

Identity failures are now the main way cyber attackers breach firms, with experts warning that non-human credentials are widening the risk.

Gigamon urges firms to start post-quantum planning now, citing encrypted traffic risks, harvest now, decrypt later fears and a widening readiness gap.

Deel urges Australian employers to focus on management, trust and clear goals as cost-of-living pressures revive the home-working debate.

TrendAI urges stronger AI governance as it shifts cybersecurity from fear-based selling to platformised risk reduction for Australian firms.

Neara turns to ClickHouse's ClickStack as engineers cut incident response times by more than half and track seven terabytes of data monthly.

Rafay Systems has unveiled Token Factory, a platform for GPU operators and sovereign cloud providers to price, meter and control AI access by token use.

Acronis rolls out globally available managed detection and response for MSPs, bundling 24/7 monitoring, incident response and recovery tools.

DroneShield rolls out Q2 software upgrade with drone threat ranking, revamped ATAK-CIV tools and offline maps for its command systems.

Annexa's six-month cloud ERP rollout for ROLLER has automated revenue recognition, unified finance data and reduced month-end strain.

M&S says Auror platform is helping cut store violence, with nine in 10 colleagues feeling safer as police use sharper data to target repeat offenders.

Veolia appoints Richard Kirkman to lead Northern Europe and the UK as the environmental group reshapes its top team for GreenUp growth.

UK organisations back up AI workloads widely, yet only 39% say they are fully confident they could restore cloud data after a cyberattack.