Sandra Rossi

Enterprise application integration (EAI) was all the buzz in the late 1990s but the "new thing" is Web services with its promises of 'plug and play', but what does it really mean, is it just another vendor fad?

Australian unions and the opposition Labor party have signalled their support for U.S.-style legislation that penalizes companies that engage in offshore outsourcing.

Australian business has been invited to take part in an international antispam campaign dubbed Operation Secure Your Server.

Leading the trend to combine both IT and physical security the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) has rolled out a million-dollar smartcard solution to more than 2,000 employees.

When it comes to tackling security, governance and compliance in 2004, Australian organizations are likely to take the same approach they have taken for the last few years, that is, continuing to "spend as little as they can get away with."

A consortium of six of Australia's major providers of general insurance has inked a multi-million dollar contract with IBM Corp. to deliver the industry's first centralized electronic compliance Hub.

Revenues are booming for New South Wales (NSW) state's premier collection agency, which has had an 800 per cent growth in electronic business in the past 12 months.

In its latest move to protect critical infrastructure, the Australian federal government yesterday launched a secure Web site to report information security attacks, but the initiative has raised the ire of Australia's Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCert) which has spent the last two years establishing a national reporting and alert system with a broad membership base.