APAC stories
AI is shaping Asia Pacific trip planning, with 49% of travellers using tools to find destinations as they favour familiar places and flexible itineraries.
The move gives KDDI continuity on a platform managing 104 million IoT devices, as Aeris seeks more multinational customers across Asia Pacific.
SMB customers stand to benefit as Pax8 spotlighted partners and vendors across its marketplace, from Microsoft to smaller channel specialists.
The tie-up gives managed service providers a way to standardise Microsoft 365 security and prepare SMB customers for Copilot adoption.
The tie-up adds tighter access checks as firms deploy AI agents and browser tools more widely, amid rising identity attacks.
Despite inflation and interest-rate pressure, most small firms are boosting marketing and AI use to win customers and protect revenue.
The awards highlight how Genesys is leaning on partners to help customers turn AI pilots into wider deployments while managing governance risk.
Thousands of corporate devices may be exposed because many remain unpatched, unseen or missing endpoint protection, Arctic Wolf found.
The 600-petabyte deployment is set to underpin regulated AI workloads in Australia as demand for onshore data control intensifies.
Stronger AI adoption could lift office, industrial and retail demand in Asia Pacific, Cushman & Wakefield says, despite automation fears.
Many firms are adopting AI quickly, but weak data architecture is leaving them unable to measure returns or manage governance risks.
More than four in 10 firms where AI widened access were breached last year, underscoring a growing governance gap, Netwrix says.
The honours highlight a sector under tighter scrutiny yet still adding more than AUD $13.6 billion to Australia's economy and employing 50,200 staff.
Rising cyber threats and hybrid work are pushing Australian employers to replace scattered badges, passwords and tokens with one credential.
The Bengaluru firm is adding senior firepower as demand grows for cross-border deal advice paired with execution support.
The new local base aims to speed up commissioning and maintenance support as demand for load testing rises across Australia's data centre boom.
Fragmented data is slowing finance decisions and limiting the value of AI, as Australian CFOs push to make GRC the office's connective layer.
Governance failures have forced most Australian enterprises to pull back customer-facing AI agents, even as spending plans and deployments keep rising.
Sydney will coordinate wider APJ growth as demand rises for earlier warning on cyber threats hitting critical infrastructure and finance.
Financial advisers may soon get quicker answers on retirement income products as Allianz Retire+ tests Ada for compliant support.
