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Beyond the endpoint: ASD’s new approach to enterprise cyber defence

October 15 2026, by James Rabey |
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Australia’s approach to cyber defence is shifting from protecting individual endpoints to defending the enterprise as a whole, with the launch of ASD’s new Essentials for Enterprise IT (“Essentials”) framework. The new framework reflects a...

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Platform choice is settled. Governance is what decides which initiatives get funded.

October 1 2026, by Naran McClung |
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Governance and risk management on Microsoft Azure in Australian government. Most Australian government agencies now run Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics as standard infrastructure rather than as a project. The Digital Transformation Agency’s ne...

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Migration was the easy part. Defending the cloud bill is the hard part

September 1 2026, by Naran McClung |
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Azure cost management and resource optimisation in Australian government. Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics are embedded across most Australian government agencies and treated as standard infrastructure. The Digital Transformation Agency’s new f...

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Macquarie Government launches secure Microsoft Azure practice for state and federal agencies

July 23 2026, by Macquarie Technology Group |
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Macquarie Government brings managed cloud, cybersecurity and AI-ready capabilities to government customers as Microsoft’s investment in Australia accelerates Macquarie Government, part of Macquarie Technology Group (ASX: MAQ), today launched a n...

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Email Isn’t Secure File Sharing. It Just Looks Like It Is

May 1 2026, by Dave Knowles |
Category: Government

For more than thirty years, email has been a trusted communication tool across business and government organisations. To this day, it remains one of the most widely used tools for sharing files. It’s familiar, fast and already embedded in how te...

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Who has your file right now? The hidden gap in most sharing tools

May 1 2026, by James Rabey |
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You’ve sent the file. It reached the intended recipient. In many organisations, file sharing is treated as a completed action. Once the document is sent, the task is considered done. But there’s a question that often goes unasked, and certa...

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Why file sharing is still one of government’s biggest security risks (and how to fix it)

May 1 2026, by David Flanagan |
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In today’s digital environment, sharing files between organisations is part of everyday work. Documents are sent quickly, often without giving a second thought to what happens next. Within government, the information being shared is often sensit...

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