Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In today’s rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape, organizations, particularly those within the public sector and defense industries, face unprecedented challenges in securing sensitive data and ensuring regulatory compliance. The need for a comprehensive, cloud-based productivity and collaboration suite that empowers teams and meets stringent security and compliance requirements has never been greater.

Friends and Colleagues, We are proud to share that archTIS has won the 2023 Australian Defence Industry Award for Cyber Business of the Year for the second year running. We are humbled to once again be recognised by our peers and industry leaders for the valuable contributions and leadership role archTIS has taken in solving the critical Defence challenge of securing sensitive and classified information sharing.

As increased cyber threats and regulations governing the handling of sensitive personal data, government and defense data are enacted, the ability to automate the discovery, classification and protection of sensitive information is critical across enterprise content management systems. To this end, archTIS recently extended NC Protect’s capabilities to support NetApp ONTAP to ensure we support a wide range of enterprise platforms.

The volume of data moving to and collaborating in the cloud has spurred government concern and oversight over protecting sensitive personal, business, government and defence data. Data sovereignty is the concept of a country or jurisdiction having the right to govern and control digital data collection, storage, processing, and distribution within its borders. Organisations operating across international borders must comply with the rules of each country/jurisdiction where their data resides.

We are proud to share that archTIS has been shortlisted for two 2023 Australian Defence Industry Awards. The company has been named a Finalist for Cyber Business of the Year, and Managing Director and CEO Daniel Lai is nominated for Executive of the Year. archTIS is humbled to be recognised once again for our contributions as a company to improving the secure collaboration of sensitive information in the defence industry. I am also honoured to be nominated for Executive of the Year.

If you are using Microsoft 365 (M365) or SharePoint and need to comply with or learn more about US export control requirements, read our 6 W’s of ITAR and EAR Compliance to help you comply with these strict U.S. regulations.

Cybersecurity challenges continue to grow in impact and complexity, especially as they relate to government and Defence information. In response to increasing hacking and cyber attacks, the Department of Defense (DoD) has released the DFARS and CMMC information management and cybersecurity standards to reduce the risk of system compromises within government agencies and the defense industrial base (DIB) that supports them.

The recent US National Guard leak has once again focused attention on the risk that overprivileged access poses. A massive intelligence breach occurred when Massachusetts US National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, an IT specialist with a top secret security clearance, accessed and printed classified files and posted them to a civilian Discord chat room. He did this after having been previously reprimanded for his mishandling of classified information.

archTIS is pleased to announce we have partnered with Janusnet, a global leader in data classification, to offer robust classification and dynamic data protection for joint Defence and industry customers looking to implement data-centric zero trust security to protect sensitive information.

As seen in Defence Connect, archTIS’s Tony Howell discusses the opportunities and cybersecurity implications of AUKUS for Defence suppliers with Editor Liam Garman.