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Bhaskar Niraula is the Regional Sales Head for Africa & Sri Lanka at Motadata, bringing over 14 years of experience in enterprise technology sales and channel leadership. He specializes in AIOps, ITSM, and observability, helping organizations accelerate digital transformation through intelligent IT operations. Bhaskar is passionate about enterprise sales strategy, partner ecosystems, and enabling businesses to build resilient, future-ready IT environments.

South Africa is the most targeted country for cybercrime on the continent. The threat has moved out of the server room and into the boardroom, and the businesses that survive it will be the ones that stop treating security as a once-a-year purchase. South Africa has earned an unwelcome distinction. It is the most targeted country for cybercrime in Africa, and the attacks are no longer a problem that lives quietly inside the IT department.

SharonAI Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:SHAZ) and its subsidiaries (“Sharon AI” or “the Company”), a leading Australian Neocloud, today announced the signing of a cloud computing service agreement with a global Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) Lab, valued at US$1.32 billion over five years.

One in every 100 identity check failures involves a deepfake document, image or liveness video – LexisNexis Risk Solutions Deepfakes are now one of the fastest-growing fraud vectors worldwide with millions predicted to appear in fraud attempts in 2026 Passports, driver’s licenses and national IDs are the most faked identity documents Juniper Research estimates the number of digital ID verification checks carried out globally will reach 100.4 billion in 2026, up 16% year on year SYDNEY – July...

Fujitsu Limited today announced that it has begun exploring business opportunities in the field of physical AI with leading robotics companies FANUC CORPORATION, YASKAWA Electric Corporation and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. This initiative aims to promote the development of a collaborative control platform that ensures sovereignty by bridging the digital and physical worlds and integrating NVIDIA’s open physical AI technologies.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s announcement of a new Office of AI, mandatory standards for large-scale data centres and plans for a world-first approach to AI copyright marks a significant shift in Australia’s AI strategy. Australian technology leaders say the announcement moves the conversation from AI policy to AI implementation.

Helping enterprises bridge the gap between AI innovation and security, Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) today announced its selection as a strategic partner for World Wide Technology (WWT)’s AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience (ARMOR). This collaboration positions Akamai as a foundational security architecture for the “AI factories” being built by WWT and accelerated by NVIDIA.

SYDNEY & SINGAPORE, 16 July 2026 — Bitdefender Labs has published research documenting three previously undocumented attack techniques that abuse a legitimate Windows feature, called bind links, to bypass endpoint detection and response (EDR) and built-in Windows defences including AMSI, AppLocker, Windows Firewall and Sysmon. Bind links redirect a trusted file path to an attacker-controlled file without modifying the original file on disk.

Today, Sophos released its seventh annual State of Ransomware report, a vendor-agnostic survey of IT and cybersecurity leaders across 17 countries identifying the impact of ransomware on businesses and how prepared organisations are to defend against them. This year’s report reveals that identity is the dominant initial access vector (IAV), with four in five (79%) of ransomware attacks starting with compromised identities.

Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the leading AI-powered observability and security platform, today announced it has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, 2026. This is the sixth consecutive year Gartner has positioned Datadog as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant. Datadog was positioned highest in Ability to Execute in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms.