Opinion stories
Rising memory chip costs are forcing handset makers to lift prices, risking wider digital exclusion in emerging markets and pushing budget phones out of reach.
Brands need cleaner data and tighter measurement to prove personalisation boosts retention, revenue and viewer loyalty, not just clicks.
Investors are paying a premium for Elon Musk's narrative, even as Tesla's brand suffers and his empire's risks are shifted onto a single float.
Cross-border onboarding can lose legitimate customers and let fraud through when address checks rely on one market's rules.
Brands in media and entertainment are missing revenue because they cannot turn scattered engagement signals into coordinated, real-time personalisation.
Firms risk costly missteps as automated hiring filters miss staff who could be retrained for AI-augmented roles.
Rising prices and content overload are pushing viewers to treat subscriptions as temporary, forcing brands to rethink retention around re-entry.
MDR buyers risk missing attacks if they focus on price and log limits instead of coverage across identities, endpoints and cloud systems.
Longer dwell times and rising ransomware threats are exposing gaps in industrial defences, despite better OT visibility and governance.
Periodic penetration tests miss most systems, prompting Australian and New Zealand firms to use AI-driven checks for broader coverage and faster risk spotting.
Broadcasters are using hybrid data-centre and cloud setups to stream 2026's expanded tournament live with lower latency and compliance risks.
Teams risk wasted cycles and quality slips unless staff can judge when AI output fits the system and when it simply looks right.
Missing context could undermine AI-led SOCs, forcing detection engineers to encode business risk and attacker behaviour into every alert.
Fragmented document systems are raising costs and compliance risk for Australian organisations, as hybrid work swells information volumes.
Unlogged contractors can expose store networks to intrusion, prompting Australian retailers to adopt digital visitor controls and audit trails.
More eCommerce sites are exposed to contractor and visitor compliance gaps as dark stores and fulfilment hubs multiply across Australia.
The real payoff will come from governed workflows, as executives move beyond pilots and turn AI into a measurable business capability.
Loyalty schemes in APAC are losing relevance as global leaders win customers with simpler, more personal offers delivered in real time.
Job seekers are being lured into fake FIFA hiring pages that harvest credentials and could expose work accounts to wider corporate breaches.
New AI and quantum threats are shrinking defenders' response time, forcing Australian organisations to map exposure across interconnected systems before attacks hit.
