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Sponsored by Brennan. A recent five-state listening tour of Australian boardrooms revealed a strong interest in artificial intelligence, but few tangible outcomes. Brennan’s Head of Digital Solutions, Steve Anderton, observed that while executives are eager to harness AI’s potential, adoption remains limited due to vague goals, misaligned stakeholders, and weak business cases. Only five percent of...

The Australian Red Cross is in the final stages of developing a data mesh approach using Microsoft Fabric following an earlier attempt at a more traditional centralised data lake. Now former chief information officer Brett Wilson discusses the project.

The iTnews Podcast is having a break this fortnight and will return with a new episode shortly. We relive one of our top episodes from 2024 with NBN Co talking security.

We speak with episode, Jamie Rossato, Chief Information Security Officer at CSIRO. Jamie discusses his initial steps at the agency, core cybersecurity pillars, handling technological transformations, AI's role, and strategic resourcing. He also offers career advice for aspiring cybersecurity professionals, emphasizing governance, operational experience, and the critical nature of cybersecurit...

Melbourne Airport is building up its cyber detection and response capabilities in order to secure 30 million annual passenger journeys, which are enabled by multiple technology systems. Speaking on the iTnews Podcast , head of cyber security Cheuk Wong said he is heavily focused on having visibility across the airport’s technology ecosystem, from its internal IT to baggage handling systems and eve...

Hello and welcome to the iTnews Podcast.  This episode is brought to you by Salesforce. Stay tuned to the end to hear from Kevin Doyle, regional vice president of agentforce and data cloud at Salesforce, about the immense interest in agentic AI and use case opportunities for Australian organisations Our first guest this fortnight is Prospa’s head of data and analytics Jin Foo. An online lender for...

Hello and welcome to the iTnews Podcast. Our guest this week is Matt Bright, the senior manager of emerging technology and efficiency at UniSuper. UniSuper is moving into the next stage of its AI journey, exploring its first agentic AI use cases as a tool to assist financial advisors in the first instance. It comes about six months after the superannuation fund gave all 1200 of its staff access to...

Hello and welcome to the iTnews Podcast . Our guest this week is Mark Potter, the chief information officer at Optus. Optus has stood up a unified data platform that brings data from across a number of repositories into an Azure-based ‘lakehouse’ environment. Mark walks us through this large program of work, which is continuing, but he starts where the iTnews Podcast often does - discussing key pr...

Hello and Welcome to a brand new season of the iTnews Podcast. This week's episode is brought to you by Arctic Wolf and the State of Security Report. Stick around until the end to catch insights from Arctic Wolf’s Director of Engineering Steve Hunter on how AI is transforming cyber security—helping analysts cut through the noise, detect threats faster, and strengthen defences against evolving...

A boot camp run ahead of CyberCon this week aims to build future CISOs’ peer networks and business communication - skills that could help them make the transition into a security executive role. It’s the second year the RSA Conference CISO Boot Camp has been held in Australia, in conjunction with the Australian Information Security Association (AISA), the organiser of CyberCon. This year the boot...

This week we speak with Chris Crozier, CIO at Defence.

This week we're revisiting a discussion from last season — we'll be back on schedule with on October 14! Senior Manager of Technology, Jeff Campbell Horizon Power has completed a large-scale migration of applications and workloads from its data centres to a private cloud run by Macquarie Cloud Services. The shift to private cloud was for several reasons. The WA government wants agencies...

Vote Now for the iTnews Podcast in the Listeners' Choice Award at the Australian Podcast Awards! VOTE HERE The latest episode of the iTnews Podcast hear from ANZ Banking Group’s CISO, Dr. Maria Milosavljevic, as she discusses ANZ's security strategy, focusing on embedding security, building resilience, and driving business transformation.   The iTnews Podcast is brought to you by Fortine...

Vote Now for the iTnews Podcast in the Listeners' Choice Award at the Australian Podcast Awards! VOTE HERE This week's episode brought to you by Stellar Cyber and the  2024 State of Security report. NBN Co has launched a new five-year security strategy to align with the Australian government's cyber security initiatives, while reinforcing the role of security as a business enabler....

As part of the 2024 iTnews State of Data report, iTnews speaks with Ashley Taylor, Global Voice of Customer Lead at Flight Centre. This week's episode brought to you by NRI Checkout the inaugural State of Data report.  We explore the trends that are driving data analytics through to the latest strategies for how data is stored and secured, and focus on the rapidly maturing disciplines of data...

iTnews Associate Editor Eleanor Dickinson interviews David Griffiths, the Chief Information Security Officer of Northern Beaches Council. Griffiths shares insights on developing and implementing a cohesive security strategy for the council, emphasizing the importance of understanding information control, applying appropriate security measures, and building a roadmap for the future. He also discuss...

In our latest iTnews podcast episode, we dive into the transformative journey of Torrens University , a digital-first institution that has grown from zero to nearly 20,000 students in just a decade. Eoghan Hogan , former transformation director of Torrens University, discusses the university’s commitment to online education, their innovative digital learning model, and the significant transformati...

As part of the 2024 iTnews State of Security report, iTnews speaks with Jeroen Buwalda, Group Executive, Transformation, Technology & Operations at Colonial First State.      This episode of the iTnews podcast brought to you by Brennan. We love to hear from our readers and advertisers, so please get in touch and let the friendly iTnews team help with your enquiry.

As part of the 2024 iTnews State of Security report, iTnews speaks with Paul Russell, CTO at Gumtree Group .  This episode of the iTnews podcast brought to you by Interactive. We love to hear from our readers and advertisers, so please get in touch and let the friendly iTnews team help with your enquiry.

As part of the 2024 iTnews State of Data report, iTnews speaks with Jared Woodruff,  Head of AI Engineering at Lander & Rogers. iTnews is excited to announce the launch of the inaugural State of Data report on Thursday, June 20th, at a special Data Forum Breakfast at the NextDC Sydney Data Centre. Readers are invited to register their interest here: iTnews will host panel discussions with CIOs...

As part of the 2024 iTnews State of Security report, iTnews speaks with Marcelo Dantas, Chief Information Officer at Automic Group. This episode of the iTnews podcast brought to you by Jamf . We love to hear from our readers and advertisers, so please get in touch and let the friendly iTnews team help with your enquiry.

 As part of the 2024 iTnews State of Security report, iTnews speaks with  Sandro Bucchianeri, Group Chief Security Officer at NAB. This episode of the iTnews podcast brought to you by Mimecast. We love to hear from our readers and advertisers, so please get in touch and let the friendly iTnews team help with your enquiry.