Security requirements added after a supplier is chosen are requests; added before, they are conditions. What to require at each stage of a technology purchase, with a contract checklist mapped to the Information Security Manual.
Australian organisations will spend A$7.56 billion on information security in 2026, up 9.5%. Market size by segment, security’s share of IT budgets, Australia’s share of global spend, and the ASD and OAIC threat figures behind it.
The price of leaving a supplier is set on the day you sign. The six components of an exit bill, what CPS 230 and the EU Data Act actually require, and the terms to negotiate before a preferred supplier is named.
Not by 2030, and not the way the question implies. Five dated predictions on AI risk, each with its evidence and its falsifier, and what they change about how Australian organisations buy AI-enabled products.
Human administrators are the visible half of privileged access. The other half is machine credentials: API keys, database connection strings, service account
Operational technology security is bought under a constraint that does not apply anywhere else in the security estate: you usually cannot patch
Email remains the most common way an attacker first reaches an organisation, and it is the control most often bought on brand
Backup is bought on capacity and judged on recovery. That gap is where most of the disappointment in this category lives. A
Privileged access is the smallest population of accounts in an organisation and the largest share of its risk. A domain administrator, a
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