Seventy-two percent of professionals surveyed believe nation-states have the right to ‘hack back’ cybercriminals.

Organisations are increasingly concerned with the employee experience as they grapple with the forces of automation and RPA.

A Gartner survey shows brands risk losing 38% of customers because of poor marketing personalisation efforts.

“Pairing automation and machine learning with live agents lead to happier customers, more satisfied employees and financial rewards."

“Managing funds is what we do, and now with GoalsGetter we’re pleased to be able to make our fund management services more readily available to Kiwis.”

The survey shows that rate of change, lack of tools, and sparse resourcing are what worry security teams in the age of hybrid-cloud.

Nearly all C-level respondents agreed that if inaccuracies in financial data were not identified prior to reporting, the impact would be negative.

The top culprits in poor data quality in Oz are human error, different data sources, lack of comms, inadequate strategy, and too much information.

More servers and more CPU power used to be the answer to boosting data centre performance, but it appears this is no longer the case.

The report analyses survey results from different vertical sectors, organisation sizes and IT team sizes to build a picture of the attack and cyber defence landscape.

Two-thirds of private and public-sector organisations say they buy new systems and solutions without involving IT teams.

Australia ranks second last, only above China in the global survey across 7 regions and 12 industries.

Three predominant security tools emerged as the top methods Australian organisations are using to secure their IoT data/services/devices.

Some shocking results include that 57% of respondents who have experienced a phishing attack have not changed their password behaviours.

"Leaders are more realistic about what it will take to succeed, and they appear particularly focused on societal impact and workforce development as two critical components of their future success."

"To move past the barriers inhibiting production scale IoT, organisations have to solve the broader security and upgrade issues."

A recent Accenture survey of CEOs shows we worry more about the potential US$5 trillion in lost revenue due to attacks than our global counterparts.

"Alarmingly a significant portion of large enterprises lack a formal hybrid-cloud strategy."

A Gemalto study also shows that the of blockchain technology to help secure IoT data, services and devices has doubled in a year.

Trends for digital voice assistants, extended reality and the over-the-top video market are explored in the latest global consumer survey.

Over 50% of respondents reported that 100 days of dwell time or more was representative of their organisation.

CEOs are aware of how AI and automation are affecting workspaces and employees’ growing demand for flexible environments that reflect these changes.

After many forecasts predicting it, a new report of Europe's top 20 data centre clusters has confirmed London has lost its crown to Frankfurt.

This unease is warranted given the growing sophistication of scammers and their activities, and numbers of attempted fraud.