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Australia is among the APAC governments forging closer ties with the private sector due to the realisation that the public sector can no longer fight the increase in cyber criminals alone.
Bank-fintech partnerships continue to rise as financial institutions look to streamline operations, improve customer experiences, drive profitability, and manage risk and compliance efforts. The guidance promotes standardization for assessing third-party risk and describes sound risk management principles when developing and implementing third-party risk management practices.
The study - which surveyed 100 Federal and 100 private sector cybersecurity decision-makers - found that data privacy concerns and trust issues hold public-private partnerships back. The ideal ways for public and private organizations to work together to reduce cyber risk are - a government-led committee of private and public cybersecurity leaders, government-issued directives for both public and private organizations, a private organization-led committee of public and private cybersecurity leaders, and both sectors working individually, only sharing information that is believed relevant.
Google Cloud and Workday announced a strategic partnership that will enable businesses across the world to further their digital transformations. As a Workday preferred cloud partner across core industries-such as healthcare, financial services, and retail-Google Cloud will help businesses run Workday enterprise applications for finance, HR, and planning in a public cloud environment, with ease-of-management, and low network latency.
The expansion delivers Saviynt's identity governance, privileged access, and access risk analytics capabilities to organizations as a managed service through Deloitte's Digital Identity+ Platform, bringing together Saviynt's innovative technology and Deloitte's deep experience in providing strategic business solutions. The Saviynt Enterprise Identity Cloud platform helps modernize identity and governance administration, secures access across multi-cloud environments, governs third-party access, enforces cloud privileged access management, and automates user lifecycle management with predictive analytics.
Nutanix and Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced an expanded partnership to accelerate hybrid cloud and multicloud adoption by offering Nutanix Era, a multi-database operations and management solution, bundled with HPE ProLiant servers, as a service through HPE GreenLake. Customers using Nutanix Era reported a positive experience in increasing speed of database provisioning by 97%, reducing unplanned downtime to avoid average losses of $35,000 per hour, decreasing storage requirements for copies and backups by 60%, and reducing database administrators' overtime work by 50%. By combining Nutanix Era on HPE ProLiant servers, the world's most trusted servers offering high-performance, scalability and versatility to run a range of workloads, and delivering the solution as a cloud service through HPE GreenLake, customers can transform database management with one cloud-ready platform.
Cognizant announced that it has extended its relationship with global engineering company Aker Solutions to modernize and simplify its entire IT infrastructure, including its business technology network and application maintenance and development. Aker Solutions helps companies unlock energy from sources such as oil, gas and offshore wind.
Snow Software announced an expanded partnership and enhanced product integration with BMC Software. With Snow's software asset management platform and the BMC Helix solution working in concert, joint customers can simplify the complexity of their IT environments while also addressing historic issues such as poor data quality in the configuration management database.
Elastic announced an expanded strategic partnership with Microsoft. From directly within the Microsoft Azure portal, customers can now find, deploy, and manage Elasticsearch and accelerate their time to value with Elastic Cloud solutions, including Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security.
The Republic of Korea took two bold steps into the future on Tuesday, by announcing that the last of its 2G networks will go offline in June and that it will initiate large-scale adoption of communications protected by quantum encryption. The quantum tests will build on demos conducted in 2020, but this time South Korea's government hopes to involve multiple industries and to educate them on the benefits of the tech and how to adopt it.