Oksana Patron

The Western Australia Government has earmarked $48.6 million to expand and upgrade mobile and broadband coverage and services in the state’s regions. The investment comes as a part of WA’s 2022-23 Budget, and will also draw in nearly $100 million...

The Western Australia Government is set to further strengthen its cybersecurity capabilities under its Digital Strategy 2021-25, including an expansion “in the coming months” of its whole-of-government cybersecurity unit, WA Government chief information officer Greg Italiano revealed during a recent...

The Department of Health (DoH) has inked a three-year extension to a longstanding outsourcing deal with Kiwi tech company Datacom, expected to save the DoH “millions of dollars” through streamlined public cloud adoption. Datacom said the new deal, secured for...

A lack of ready access to IT systems and digital equipment hindered staff from efficiently administering Victoria’s Freedom of Information (FOI) Act over the course of the Covid lockdowns, according to a new report by the Office of the Victorian...

Given the increased risk of malicious cyber operations by Russian state-sponsored and criminal actors since the start of the war in Ukraine, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has released a set of recommendations for critical infrastructure organisations to immediately...

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has observed an increase in BlackCat/ALPHV operative ransomware attacks globally this year, warning that Australian organisations, including government and critical infrastructure operators as well as energy, finance, and construction businesses, have already been attacked...

Brisbane City Council has ordered a new set of vehicle-mounted AI solutions for automated parking enforcement from ASX-listed video and sensor datasets provider, SenSen Networks. According to the Melbourne-based tech firm, the deal, which commences in June 2022 for the...