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Cyber Security and Risk Management

Do we have a strong security culture?

Since the pandemic, there has been an increase in the use of innovative digital platforms and the internet - which means an increase in cyber threats and attacks. Here are some best ways to stay on top of trends, threats and respond to any change in the landscape in the best ways we can.

Do we have a strong security culture?

New Zealand

19 Dec 2022

Industry Trends

Public

Save Jane Murugan

Data, Analytics and AI

Driving Data & Analytics Excellence in the NZ Government

Across many industries these days, it is often said that data is the lifeblood of society, and this became, even more, the case during the pandemic. Data helps government agencies to better serve their citizens, which was definitely the case during the height of various COVID-19 strains, but it is also data that makes our smartphones ‘smart’ and allows us to order products online. Yet even within all that, the people who work with data regularly question what it is, and therefore aren’t always sure how to create governance strategies around it, and how it uses it in a holistic …

Driving Data & Analytics Excellence in the NZ Government

New Zealand

12 Aug 2022

Industry Trends

Public

Save Neboneid Hamoo

IT Modernization and Cloud

Refining IT Infrastructure Initiatives to Further Aotearoa’s Digital Strategy

This is just one example, but the changes over the last few decades have been so dramatic that the “traditional concepts of things like property ownership and even our social fabric are being challenged.” And just like the industrial age was about “augmenting human strengths, the digital age is about augmenting human intellect.” As part of that, rather than the mass production of identical products, which was at the heart of the industrial revolution, “the digital era is characterised by personalisation and the tailoring of services to meet the needs of the many, the few and the individual.” Like the …

Refining IT Infrastructure Initiatives to Further Aotearoa’s Digital Strategy

Cyber Security and Risk Management

Communicating Risk and Mitigating Threats in a Changing Cyber Security Landscape

“There is a direct financial benefit of good security practice at the customer interface, a rapid response program of how to deal with cyber events, and a quick clean-up action. Suddenly it becomes very clear that investment in your cyber security practice becomes financially understood and a viable action.

Communicating Risk and Mitigating Threats in a Changing Cyber Security Landscape

Data, Analytics and AI

Data Visualisation and Dashboards Techniques

As an example, many people will know the colours of Google even if they don’t see the word spelled out, and they will know the font of Disney even if it is used to write something else. A lot of these kinds of brands are ingrained in our minds because they use all four elements and because “everything that we consume visually makes use of those well-known attributes within our brains.” In an organisation like the Inland Revenue Department there are four factors that have been included in the style guide, “though more elements can be added in there.” These …

Data Visualisation and Dashboards Techniques

Cyber Security and Risk Management

Securing the Cloud

““It’s important to note that we are provider agnostic. We will work with anybody who’s prepared to support the government to achieve its digital aspirations and ultimately its outcomes and results for New Zealanders.”” Adrienne Moor, Lead, The Government Cloud Programme, Department of Internal Affairs “The continued investment in New Zealand by global cloud providers is delivering strong and positive support for New Zealand’s digital maturity. At the same time, agencies have varying needs, so the need and the flexibility of the cloud solutions need to be able to reflect and enable what is required in their different contexts for …

Securing the Cloud

New Zealand

26 Nov 2021

Industry Trends

Public

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General

Architecting the Future Smart City

Cities and regions all over the world need to continually adapt to keep up with technology and with the expectations of their citizens. In New Zealand, given the size of the country and the spread of the population, there are significant differences and challenges between the largest cities and the smallest regions. Wellington is the capital and one of the largest cities. “People said that we were absolutely mad to go down the Zealandia journey, but now we’re doing something even more extraordinary, which is to try and get rid of predators from across the entire city. No major urban …

Architecting the Future Smart City

New Zealand

18 Nov 2021

Industry Trends

Public

Save Rosie Fea

General

Scaling, Digitising & Maturing NZ Public Sector Shared Services

The goal of any business, particularly a large-scale operation, is to be as efficient as possible, delivering the best possible services whilst expending the least number of resources, thereby maximising profit. For large institutions with long histories, changing behaviours and becoming more efficient is often particularly difficult. But not impossible. However, like every organisation of significant size, there are constant roadblocks. The finance team, in particular, they are constantly involved in “firefighting, managing our backlogs, solving problems, and coaching our people to be more efficient, though there’s never enough time to actually develop our people.” The goal of course is …

Scaling, Digitising & Maturing NZ Public Sector Shared Services

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