STAMFORD, Conn., September 30, 2026 — By 2028, 70% of enterprises will abandon agentic AI built by vendor forward-deployed engineering (FDE), trapped by soaring costs and unable to evolve it on their own according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. Vendor FDE is a model in which vendor engineers work directly with…
SYDNEY, 30 September 2026 – The seventh edition of Ensign InfoSecurity’s 2026 Cyber Threat Landscape Reportreveals that ransomware activity increased by more than 600% across Australasia, with organised crime accounting for 52% of observed threat activity, the highest concentration across Asia-Pacific. Business & Professional Services, Healthcare and Manufacturing & Industrial also emerged as newly observed most-affected industry…
SYDNEY, September 30, 2026 – Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced its intent to become a public Certificate Authority (CA), an open service that issues the digital certificates websites need to encrypt traffic and prove their identity to visitors. The new CA will support both traditional encryption and next-generation post-quantum Merkle…
SYDNEY – September 30, 2026 – Delinea, the identity security platform that continuously controls what AI agents, humans and machines can do and for how long, today published new research examining where AI governance breaks down in practice. According to the report, 2026 Identity Security Report: The AI Enforcement Gap, 99.6% of Australian IT leaders say…
LONDON, U.K., September 28, 2026 – Forty-one percent of chief information security officers (CISOs) reported at least one social engineering incident involving a deepfake during an employee audio call in the previous 12 months, and 36% reported one during a video call, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company….
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — September 25, 2026 — Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it has acquired Row Zero, the spreadsheet built for humans and agents to work together with data. The acquisition will expand the capabilities of Genie, Databricks’ AI coworker, which helps business teams turn data into trusted answers and actions. Genie…
GOLD COAST, Australia, September 15, 2026 – Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company, has unveiled its top strategic predictions for 2027 and beyond. Gartner’s top predictions span three categories: robots everywhere, cost to value and unknown unknowns. Daryl Plummer, Distinguished VP Analyst and Gartner Fellow, said, “Many of the systems we take for…
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 23, 2026 — Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) today announced Unit 42® Continuous Frontier AI Defense, an agentic offensive security service designed for enterprises that want to leverage gated capability models, including Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT, to perpetually find, validate, and remediate enterprise exposures before attackers can weaponize them. …
SYDNEY, September 23, 2026 – WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity for managed service providers (MSPs), today announced the findings of its most recent Global Threat Report. The biannual report revealed that threat actors are leveraging AI-assisted tooling to quickly transition from noisy, high-volume campaigns to victim-specific malware, broader low-intensity probing and credential-based…
