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 priorities of the telco’s IT strategy. This episode is brought to you by techpartner.news. Our sister channel publication CRN Australia is rebranding to techpartner.news on the first of April. Make sure ..read more

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 ..read more

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 attacks. But first, we have Endeavour Energy’s Information Security Manager Gijo Varghese. At the end of last year, Endeavour achieved ISO 27001:2022 certification for its Information Security Management ..read more

This week iTnews speaks with Robert Lopez, Chief Marketing and Innovation Officer at Norths Collective ..read more

New episodes coming soon! Register for the State of IT 2022 report: itnews.com.au/state-of-it-2022 Strandbags has re-platformed its Australian and New Zealand websites with Shopify Plus and a mix of plug-ins under what it is calling ‘Project Future’. In this week’s iTnews podcast, CTO Stuart Freer and head of digital & data delivery Paul Erskine discuss the origin, status and next steps for Project Future, as well as a new set of transformations beyond it ..read more

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 camp’s co-chairs are longtime Thales Australia and New Zealand CISO Ben Doyle and Cyber Resilience Group founding partner and former Endeavour Drinks CISO Grant McKechnie. Speaking to the iTnews Po ..read more

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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 ..read more