GRC stories
The hire comes as Portnox targets larger enterprises shifting away from legacy access tools and toward certificate-based, passwordless security.
AI agents and service accounts are exposing Australian and New Zealand firms to regulatory, financial and reputational risk as controls lag.
The certifications strengthen customer assurance as AI-driven phishing and impersonation attacks rise, giving buyers clearer proof of Doppel's controls.
Visibility alone will not stop sensitive data leaking into AI tools, so security teams must turn DSPM findings into live controls and data lineage.
Banks face wider compliance burdens as regulators scrutinise AI-generated messages, collaboration tools and cloud records across finance.
Manual access checks are being folded into one audit trail as compliance teams face heavier evidence-gathering workloads and tighter oversight.
Boards in regulated sectors now have firmer assurance after Abacus secured CREST approval for penetration testing, renewed annually.
Weak identity controls are now driving most attacks on Australian organisations, with breaches hitting revenue, customers and supply chains.
Security researchers say long automated jobs can make Claude Code’s deny rules fall back to user prompts, weakening protections in CI/CD pipelines.
Mid-market clients across Australia and New Zealand gain broader cyber protection as the combined business reaches about 45 specialists.
Tens of thousands of dollars in disputed payments have left a Sydney skincare business exposed as household budgets tighten and chargeback fraud rises.
Training compliance at Aurelia Metals jumped from 32% to 96% in a year, helping cut safety delays and lifting incident performance.
Scam losses may top USD $1 trillion a year, forcing banks to use real-time intelligence and customer data to curb authorised push payments.
Security teams are turning to continuous, risk-based assessment as fragmented tools leave them unable to see which exposures matter most.
MSPs could cut reliance on scarce security experts as Cynomi embeds AI to draft reports, policies and remediation plans.
Demand for AI compliance tools is rising as large enterprises struggle to review far more content without slowing publishing cycles.
European mid-sized firms face tighter AI compliance demands as the EU AI Act pushes buyers towards auditable systems in sovereign infrastructure environments.
Real estate and law firms are racing to get compliant before AUSTRAC brings up to 100,000 professional services businesses under supervision in 2026.
Managed AI tools are gaining ground in finance, yet regulated data still drives most policy breaches as staff mix personal and corporate accounts.
Financial institutions could cut manual checks as a Fujifilm-DoxAI tool scans identity and income records for fraud in New Zealand.
