What We Think

Opinions

Paessler Honours Australian Partner Gammer with ‘APAC Top Partner Excellence Award 2021’

Sydney, Australia – 10 March 2022 – Paessler, the monitoring experts, today officially announced the Paessler Top Partner Excellence Awards 2021, in recognition of the contributions of its value-added resellers (VAR) in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.  Paessler presented the APAC Top Partner Excellence Award 2021 to its regional partners in Asia Pacific to recognise their commitment...

Caravan Electrical Solutions selects SYSPRO ERP to take its business to the next level & to capitalise on the popularity of caravans and RVs

Sydney – March 8 2022 – Caravan Electrical Solutions (CES) has selected Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) specialist, SYSPRO to address inefficiencies in its business as the forward looking Australian company experiences extraordinary growth due to Australians buying caravans and campers in record numbers instigated by the pandemic related travel restrictions. CES offers complete electrical systems for recreational vehicles, including the supply...

Paessler Appoints Joachim Weber as New Chief Technology Officer

Paessler, the monitoring experts, today officially unveiled Joachim Weber as their Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Weber brings with him more than three decades of industry experience, holding various senior EMEA roles to date and joins the business to support its continued growth and innovation trajectory.  Since 1997, Paessler has provided networking solutions to customers in...

Salesforce is requiring MFA: Why this matters and what you can do

As sophisticated cyberattacks continue their relentless pursuit towards SMBs and enterprises, companies must prioritise improvements to their cybersecurity infrastructure to better secure their customers, employees, and partners. Username and passwords no longer provide adequate security against the ever-evolving landscape of cyberattacks. Late last year, Salesforce took a strong and decisive stance, announcing that beginning February 1, 2022,...

Yubico’s top information security recommendations for 2022

2021 saw an increase in the number of high profile security breaches, many involving devastating ransomware attacks. Attackers preyed on traditionally softer targets like hospitals, schools, and local governments in addition to the continued focus on the supply chain. Although the root cause for many of these cyber attacks varies, all took advantage of single...

Paessler PRTG Hosted Monitor Capabilities Expand to Meet Global Market Needs

Paessler, the monitoring experts, today expanded the potential of its PRTG Hosted Monitor solution. The monitoring-as-a-service offering is now available worldwide across multiple markets with a diverse range of licensing options to ensure all users get the solution best suited to their needs. PRTG Hosted Monitor is a service built on Paessler’s award-winning PRTG Network...

Mimecast Integrates with Secureworks Taegis XDR to Better Protect Email from Threat Actors, Securing Customers’ Communications and Data

Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME), a leading email security and cyber resilience company, today announced the availability of Mimecast® for Secureworks® Taegis™ XDR. Mimecast’s extensible architecture is now integrated into Taegis™ XDR, which combines threat intelligence across cloud, network, and endpoints to detect threats. The integration is engineered to provide actionable insights and a single console for...

Secureworks Wins Frost & Sullivan’s 2021 Company of the Year Award for Taegis ManagedXDR Innovation in the North American Managed and Professional Security Services Market

Secureworks® (NASDAQ: SCWX), a global leader in cyber security, today was named Frost & Sullivan’s 2021 Best Practices Company of the Year for driving the evolution of the Managed and Professional Security Services Market with its cloud-native Taegis™ XDR. The award recognises Secureworks for its customer impact, as well as its visionary innovation and leadership in cybersecurity....

Smith Brothers Media announces merger with Follow digital agency in Brisbane

Melbourne, VIC, 1 December 2021 — Melbourne based full-service digital marketing agency Smith Brothers Media (SBM) has announced the completion of a merger with Follow, a creative digital agency in Brisbane. The merger commenced on 11th October this year, and is now complete with an announcement to clients, suppliers and the market happening today. A driving force behind the...

Secureworks® bolsters APAC presence with the appointment of new Regional Director

Demetrios Georgiou joins global cybersecurity leader to drive APAC growth of Taegis XDR platform and suite of managed cybersecurity services SYDNEY, Australia, November 26, 2021- Secureworks® has appointed Demetrios Georgiou as Director of APAC as it continues to expand across the region. The global MSSP and cloud-native security solutions provider offers global threat intelligence, managed security...

DYNABOOK EXTENDS SATELLITE PRO™ LAPTOP SERIES

Dynabook ANZ Pty, Limited, today announced the expansion of its Satellite Pro™ product range with the addition of the Satellite Pro™ C40-J and Satellite Pro™ C50-J. These new Satellite Pro laptops feature 11th Gen Intel® Core™ processors, the new Windows 11 operating system and a lightning-fast solid-state drive. They are created to combine performance, productivity with advanced design features. “Our...

Groundbreaking Italian Tourism Campaign aimed at Australians Won By Smith Brothers Media

The Italian National Tourist Board has partnered with Smith Brothers Media to launch a groundbreaking campaign, promoting Italy as the ideal travel destination across Australia and beyond. Themed around Make IT Real, the campaign will use humour, user-generated content and a strong demand for travel to engage audiences across multiple platforms and channels, encouraging them to...

YubiEnterprise Delivery Service expands to 49 countries to help customers increase remote work security for distributed workforces

The past two years have seen a tremendous amount of change regarding normal business processes for companies around the world, and Yubico customers are no exception. When YubiEnterprise Delivery was first launched in May of 2020, organisations and their workforces, partners, and customers were just beginning to grapple with the new challenges that the pandemic brought, including...

The role of influencer pr in technology

While it might appear like the term “influencer PR” is the latest trend right now, it is actually one of the oldest forms of PR in the world. In fact, you can even trace the origin of this powerful PR tactic all the way back to the 18th century when vendors and businesses would proudly display...

Life after lockdown: how we work, shop, travel and play will never be the same after the covid pandemic

Keeping your (social) distance will present new challenges as employers & businesses try to ensure everything is clean Tomorrow’s customer is likely to be poorer, quite nervous and obsessed with social distancing and hygiene. So, when the shops, cafes, restaurants and gyms can finally reopen, clients are likely to expect more regular cleaning to be...

Secureworks® Expands Taegis™ Portfolio to Boost Customers’ Cyber Resilience

Introduces Taegis NGAV next-generation endpoint threat prevention and ManagedXDR Elite with continuous managed threat hunting Secureworks® (NASDAQ: SCWX), a global leader in cyber security, today announced the expansion of its Taegis portfolio of extended detection and response solutions with the addition of Taegis NGAV and Taegis ManagedXDR Elite. Taegis NGAV is a software-as-a-service add-on to...

SYSPRO announces appointment of Michael Bennett as Global Channel Executive

Bennett to drive growth, consistency and collaboration across the global SYSPRO channel eco-system SYSPRO, a global provider of industry-built enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, announces today that Michael Bennett has been appointed as Global Channel Executive. Within the role, Michael will lead SYSPRO’s global channel business, channel development, strategic channel partnerships, and SYSPRO’s PartnerUP channel program....

Yubico Launches First YubiKeys With Biometric Authentication

Bennett to drive growth, consistency and collaboration across the global SYSPRO channel eco-system SYSPRO, a global provider of industry-built enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, announces today that Michael Bennett has been appointed as Global Channel Executive. Within the role, Michael will lead SYSPRO’s global channel business, channel development, strategic channel partnerships, and SYSPRO’s PartnerUP channel program....