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Matthew Oostveen exits as APJ CTO of Dell EMC

Matthew Oostveen has vacated his role as CTO across Asia Pacific and Japan at Dell EMC, exiting the vendor after five years in the role.

McAfee channel sales manager joins Kaspersky Lab

Adam Boreham, ​former McAfee channel sales manager for Australia and New Zealand, has left the vendor to join Kaspersky Lab.

Microsoft starts auto-update of Windows 10 1809 three months late

Microsoft has finally restarted the automatic distribution of Windows 10 October 2018 Update, the problem-plagued upgrade pulled from release in October.

M&A activity in the data centre rises, tops $16B

M&A activity within the data centre market continues to increase at pace, with the number of transactions increasing during 2018.

• Defence issues $190M worth of IT contracts
• Microsoft side-steps channel in direct Azure play
• Coin mining malware can uninstall Tencent, Alibaba cloud security
• Geoscience Australia seeks guidance on satellite cyber security
• Cofense targets SMB security needs with MSSP program
• Enterprise will focus on four technologies in 2019
• Dell EMC attacks multi-cloud market with partners in pursuit
• IBM moves Juniper to the cloud in seven-year $325M deal
• Veeam targets M&A activity following $500M investment
• Deep Instinct boosts A/NZ presence with new sales manager
• How Cisco's TacOps unit restores communication after natural disasters
• Controversial security researcher ranking site Pwnhead considers its future

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5 ways to build your IT network

The information technology field is vast and one that is constantly evolving. With the rise of digitisation its essential for IT professionals to stay ahead of the curve and invest in the relevant technical and soft skills.. Read more

Features

• Start-up Devvio claims its blockchain can handle 8M transactions a second

  The new blockchain protocol, Devv, was demoed at CES; backers say it outperforms other distributed ledger technologies and traditional financial networks such as VisaNet. Analysts ...

• What to expect when the Internet gets a big security upgrade

  More secure keys protecting the directory name system (DNS) are ready to deploy, but for those using DNS servers that haven't been upgraded, it could ...

• Cisco pays cool US$2.3 billion for security company Duo

  Cisco says deal will help customers securely connect any user to any application on any network

• Google details how it will overturn encryption signals in Chrome

  Google has fleshed out its plans to upend the way browsers warn users of insecure websites, spelling out gradual steps the company will take with ...

• Microsoft boosts anti-phishing skills of Chrome, the IE and Edge killer

  The company has released an add-on for Chrome – dubbed 'Windows Defender Browser Protection' – that effectively gives up a major asset in its own ...

• Could these grain-sized computers using blockchain networks thwart counterfeiters?

  IBM researchers have created computers the size of a grain of rock salt that could someday be embedded in every product shipped and used to ...

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Round Table

• IN PICTURES: ARN Roundtable - Big Data, Big Opportunities (+21 images)

  The latest ARN Roundtable was held at Sydney's Cafe Del Mar, and was sponsored by Cloudera and Veritas. The guestlist saw a VIP group of ...

• Roundtable: Security Guide for the Cloud - right here, right now

  The cloud 'security strategy' involves adopting security solutions that seamlessly span physical, virtual and private/hybrid/public cloud environments while simplifying operational and management complexities. Roundtable attendees ...

• Selling security to SMBs

  ARN pulls together industry experts to discuss how to successful sell security solutions to SMBs in today's economic climate

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Opinions

• Easy mobile security the Faraday way

  Wireless attacks are unpredictable and complicated. Here’s an easy way to block everything.

• How blockchain makes self-sovereign identities possible

  Who are you? And who decides you’re really you and can be trusted? The answer, and the systems involved, differ in the real world and ...

• Step aside, Windows! Open source and Linux are IT’s new security headache

  The Equifax breach is the latest example of attackers targeting open-source software in the enterprise.

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Reviews

• Review: Norton Security -- simpler and still a winner

  Symantec has streamlined its Norton line of anti-malware suites and combined them into a single but still-efficient package.

• Review: McAfee LiveSafe offers top Windows, Android protection

  McAfee LiveSafe provides users with protection for an unlimited number of devices -- and for a reasonable price. However, Apple users don't get much beyond ...

• Hawkeye G battles malware so you don't have to

  New product from Hexis Cyber Solutions automates the detection, prevention and removal of malware.

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