CIO50 Australia Awards 2026: Nominations now open

Nominations for the prestigious CIO50 Australia Awards have opened. Now in its 11th year, CIO50 Awards will be held alongside the CSO30 Awards in Sydney on September 22. Hosted by CIO Australia, this flagship program recognises outstanding senior technology and digital executives driving innovation, transformation, and impact across the country. Open to individuals with overall…

Lyrie.ai Joins First Batch of Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program

Dubai-founded OTT Cybersecurity LLC also unveils the Agent Trust Protocol (ATP), the first open cryptographic standard for AI agent identity, scope, and action verification — slated for IETF submission. OTT Cybersecurity LLC, the company behind Lyrie.ai, today announced two milestones that together position the company as foundational infrastructure for the agentic AI era: acceptance into…

Your operating model is the real legacy system

For the past decade, enterprise modernization has been framed as a technology problem. Legacy systems. Technical debt. Monoliths that need to be broken apart and moved to the cloud. That framing is convenient and also incomplete. In most organizations, the technology isn’t the constraint. The operating model is. You can see it in how decisions…

CIOs rise to the global challenge

As if IT leaders didn’t have enough to contend with as demand for enterprise-wide AI increases, a volatile geopolitical climate now mandates that they adopt a more global-centric mindset on everything from their tech supply chains and regulation to distributed infrastructure and workforces. Lately, the news has spoken volumes about the Iran war’s impact on…

Why tech needs smarter contracts for data centers

Data centers are reshaping our landscape at breakneck speed. Every AI query, online purchase, and streaming video now runs through these massive facilities. The United States Department of Energy is leading the way in developing public private partnerships (PPPs) essential to facilitating AI’s expansion. Meta, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI are racing to lock in long-term…