Security firm Bitdefender has secured a deal with the Westpac banking group to offer the bank’s customers a one-year free subscription to its Internet security package including antivirus, antispam, firewall and parental controls as well as social networking protection against malicious pages and privacy threats.

There is a positive outlook for growth in spending on IT in the global financial markets sector next year, with predictions that the sector will increase its spend on IT vendors by 4.5 per cent in 2011.

There’s continuing growing demand for services in the Australian video communications market, with modest growth taking the total value of the market to $52.6 million last year.

Australia’s now going through a period of sustained, increased demand for skilled ICT professionals and according to the largest ICT industry recruiter, Peoplebank, the Sydney, Melbourne and Perth markets, in particular, are experiencing a strong lift in demand for IT workers.

The Commonwealth Bank’s websites have been recognised as one of the ‘world’s most well executed’, winning four awards in the 2009 Interactive Media Awards (IMA), with NetBank and commbank.com.au receiving the ‘best in class for financial services and 'best in class' for banking’ categories.

Capgemini is to boost the number of its business information management consultants by 3000. This will be a 75% increase.

A former general manager of Optus has joined enterprise solutions provider, ICT Networks, as the company looks to cement recent growth and its position in the Asia Pacific region off the back of recent contract wins.

Infosys today launched a new service for its Australian and New Zealand customers which it claims will deliver less costs, less hassle and less paper and improve a company’s green credentials.

Banks in the Asia Pacific market have increasingly put vendors under the microscope during the economic crisis, as they seek to manage risk and ensure the viability and sustainability of vendors’ businesses.

Melbourne IT services and software development company, Taten, has sealed an agreement with American banking technology provider, Anduin Systems, to take its financial services software platform into the US market.