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.

In our hybrid work world, the office has emerged with an important role to play as a central hub connecting employees and company culture. As an essential conduit for staff wellbeing and workplace culture, a well-designed office can also cultivate a sense of belonging among employees.

Are your business goals focused on enhancing the customer experience to meet ever greater customer demands? Or boosting operational productivity and efficiency by extending process simplification and automation? Perhaps you are seeking to improve employee satisfaction and retention as part of strengthening your employer brand and culture. Or you could be looking to build resilience in your supply chain to withstand turbulent time? The answer to many modern business challenges lies in how you use new technology.

Is your organisation still managing security and networking policies across multiple disjointed consoles? For those who have been tasked to design a cloud-first and future-ready security architecture, secure access service edge, or SASE provides a flexible approach to ever-evolving network security.