ArcSight, a global provider of compliance and security management solutions, is establishing an operation in Australia with the aim of expanding its market presence in the Asia Pacific region through the appointment of a chief salesman for Australia and New Zealand.

A new report released today warns that the state of the global financial services industry, in the current world economic downturn, could increase the risk of potential internal and external fraud attempts in the world’s banks.

Adoption of unified communications solutions (UC) by companies in the Asia Pacific region is low, although China leads the region in adoption with 35% of Chinese companies having already deployed a UC solution.

Cisco has unveiled its first Australian Customer Briefing Centre (CBC), a US$3 million Internet protocol networking technology showcase in its Sydney offices.

There’s been a warning that publication of the Federal Government’s “black list” of pornographic and violent websites has fatally damaged its proposed compulsory Internet filtering regime.
 

A flood of spam has infiltrated the Twitter microblogging community, with new Twitter scams ‘popping up right left and centre’ according to F-Secure, which says it discovered a fake Twitter account that tricks users into a Google scam by promising a free Range Rover.

Macquarie Telecom has called on the Australian Government to ensure its data centre strategy, planned in response to the Gershon data centre recommendations, includes clear, environmental standards for individual data centres to be measured against.

Rittal, a worldwide provider of enclosure technologies, is set to unveil a series of ‘significant innovations’ at CeBIT Sydney designed to enable organisations to maximise the efficiency and security of their data centre operations.

A seemingly impossible sparkle of green light from a silicon chip has opened up a whole new field of possibilities for communications devices, including exponentially shrinking the hardware needed to guarantee high quality Internet connection, according to researchers at the University of Sydney.
 

Australian businesses, it seems, are making more rapid progress than their counterparts in other countries, particularly the UK, in planning ahead for the effects of carbon pricing.