As remote working becomes increasingly popular, it becomes crucial to effectively manage the fleet of mobile devices within your team. When a business partners with a mobile device lifecycle management service, this reduces the burden placed on IT departments, as configuration, software updates, security, procurement and disposal are all under one system. In a team where everyone is dependent on a mobile device or computer, maximising functionality and productivity is essential to business success, and this can be better achieved through mobile device management.

As the world becomes ever more connected and reliant on technology, critical talent shortages in key areas such as cybersecurity, enterprise mobility, and artificial intelligence add more strain to resource-strapped IT departments. A survey by global business consulting firm Protiviti found the ability to attract and retain top talent in a tightening market was now considered a top business risk. When IT departments need to be able to keep up with constant updates, new operating systems, and emerging threats, under resourced teams just can’t keep up.

In companies across the country, the need to leverage data is as much of an urgent IT priority as security best practices and risk management. To get true value out of data, it’s important to take advantage of the right tools to help everyone in the business maximise data insights.

In early September, there was good news out of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). Its most recent report on notifiable data breaches in Australia showed that notifications from January to June this year had dropped compared to the second half of 2022. At that time, Australia had been rocked by the enormous cyberattacks on Medibank and Optus as well as three separate data breaches that had compromised the private information of millions of Australians.

As many organisations transition to a cloud-first approach, prioritising the use of cloud applications across their operations, network traffic escalates. At the same time, offering work flexibility in all its many guises, including hybrid working, work from home, or work from anywhere is becoming an expected workplace norm. Together, these modern expectations are placing enormous demands on traditional networks built on hub-and-spoke WAN architecture that was never intended to support and secure such network traffic.