Peter Griffin

The sooner we close the capability gap, the sooner we’ll reap the benefits.

The bill shock may be coming.

For years, cybersecurity professionals have been warning about the growing role of artificial intelligence in cyberattacks and the need to reimagine how the cybersecurity workforce operates.The April release of Mythos, Anthropic's powerful frontier AI model, brought the conversation to a head.Within hours of becoming available in restricted “preview” mode to a range of tech companies, cybersecurity analysts and critical infrastructure providers as part of Project Glasswing, Mythos had found larg

You’ve seen the headlines by now – New Zealand businesses are working harder but producing less than their overseas counterparts, which is crimping...

A new app tackles the fraud epidemic infecting our digital communications.

McKinsey’s fifth annual tech trends outlook research is, unsurprisingly, dominated by artificial intelligence, with interesting insights into how the AI revolution is changing investment and hiring patterns.

A exploit of server editions of Microsoft SharePoint has raced around the world, with hundreds of breaches detected and IT teams scrambling to apply patches.

The government has unveiled its long-awaited national artificial intelligence (AI) strategy , setting a direction for AI adoption across sectors, and emphasising responsible innovation, regulatory clarity, and international collaboration.

Cloud computing is rapidly transforming New Zealand’s digital landscape, with public cloud spending set to nearly double by 2028 and the technology now underpinning almost 6% of the nation’s GDP.

AI efficiencies and investment priorities features strongly in the latest wave of job layoffs at Microsoft, but a revamp of vocational training locally sees a glaring gap when it comes to all things tech.

A new report from the Technology Users Association of New Zealand (TUANZ) has revealed a critical set of digital priorities for 2025, urging the government to address escalating cybersecurity risks, the widening tech talent gap, and persistent digital inequities.  The Digital Priorities

Simpson Grierson warns that the legal aspects of cybersecurity may be overlooked by many organisations with overseas examples increasingly seeing board directors held liable for cyber incidents.

With upgrades to marine helicopters, Boeing 757s, and light armoured vehicles on the horizon, the $9 billion of new defence funding includes some long-overdue big-ticket hardware items.But Tuesday’s release of the 2025 Defence Capability Plan also signalled numerous investments in drones, cybersecurity, software and space-based systems that mirror in a small way what larger nations have been spending on as defence goes high-tech.Going big on dronesThe war in Ukraine fundamentally transformed mod

With a general election looming across the Tasman, Australia revealed its federal Budget this week, signalling a return to fiscal deficits and little in the way of new funding for tech and digital economy-related initiatives.

A new report from government-owned cybersecurity consultancy and infrastructure provider Kordia highlights the growing threat of cyber attacks and the alarming rate at which New Zealand companies are succumbing to these threats.

At a cybersecurity research briefing I attended in Auckland yesterday there was plenty of talk of the treat posed by sophisticated Russian hackers behind ransomware and botnet attacks. “But I thought Russia was no longer a threat?” I quipped, referring to US moves last week to suspend some of its

New Zealand is no stranger to tectonic shifts, perched as it is on a volcanic belt, but geopolitical quakes may prove an entirely different matter.The University of Waikato’s Dr Reuben Steff joins the podcast to argue that without joining the high-tech-focused pillar two of the Australia, UK and US (Aukus) agreement, NZ may find itself at a major disadvantage in the new world order.Steff argues that not joining Aukus could leave NZ technologically exposed if global tensions boil over.“ In future

CentrePort is set to host the country’s first commercial private 5G network later this year, in a bid to improve connectivity across Wellington’s busy port.

HP’s security experts have uncovered some sophisticated emerging malware threats and have a warning about the growing role generative AI plays in assisting cybercriminals.

New Zealand joined a handful of Nordic countries and the Czech Republic in being among the nations hardest hit by financial scams in the three months to June 30. That’s according to cybersecurity company Gen, which has well-known security softwaRE…