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Essential Eight Retirement: What’s Next?
The ASD’s new Essentials series is a step forward in aligning cyber security guidance with modern technology environments, but its deliberate move away from prescriptive controls, no matter how narrow, creates an operational and compliance tracking challenge for Australian organisations.

Essential Eight Retirement: What’s Next?
The ASD’s new Essentials series is a step forward in aligning cyber security guidance with modern technology environments, but its deliberate move away from prescriptive controls, no matter how narrow, creates an operational and compliance tracking challenge for Australian organisations.

AI as the Engine of the Innovation Economy eBook
Thriving in the innovation economy requires rejecting AI hype, prioritising strategy over technology, and engineering sustainable business value through governance.

Copilot: Where’s the Value and How Do We Get It? – Webinar and Presentation Kit
Organisations must shift from AI experimentation to fiscal scrutiny, managing hidden costs and skill erosion through value-based strategic roadmaps.

IBRS Member Only Fireside Chat: The Australian Digital Sovereignty Imperative
This second session of our IBRS Member Only Fireside Chats explores what digital sovereignty is, why it has suddenly become a major discussion point, why Europe is rapidly departing from US technology, whether Australia could follow, and what the fallout will be.

SASE – When and Why
This report helps executives evaluate transitioning from traditional LAN/WAN to cloud-native SASE architecture, ensuring modern network resilience, visibility, and zero trust security.

The Drawbacks of AI for the Workplace Staff: Cognitive Debt and the Illusion of Productivity
ANZ enterprises risk accumulating cognitive debt by prioritising short-term AI velocity over long-term strategic literacy, human comprehension, and objective critical thinking.

AI Coding Productivity Claims Are Front-Loaded, and Australian Organisations Are Paying the Difference
AI coding tools offer early wins, but deferred maintenance and “AI debt” erode these gains within two years. Look past vendor hype.