From cyber risk to operational confidence
- By CDOTrends editors
- October 19, 2026
Australian organisations rank cybersecurity among their top three strategic priorities and PwC data shows 74% have increased their security budgets, yet fewer than half feel capable of withstanding a targeted attack. Greg Boschman, the Unified Compute Platform Technical Expert at Hitachi Vantara, says IT leaders must secure hybrid cloud environments amid a cybersecurity talent shortage and also minimise downtime as their systems recover without infection. While organisations face complex technology challenges and tighter regulatory environments, he says the right configuration of solutions and governance can deliver rigorous compliance and operational resilience.
Key takeaways:
1. Australia and New Zealand face regulatory and infrastructure pressure challenges, such as hybrid cloud complexity, talent shortages and re-infection risks.
2. There are three key pillars for cyber security: the protection of data, the detection of ransomware, and recovery through automated orchestration.
3. Hitachi Vantara offers a 100% data availability guarantee for continuous access to mission critical applications and a cyber resilience guarantee for predictable, 100% clean data recovery points.
4. Working with Hitachi Vantara, recovery time can fall from days or weeks down to hours or seconds, with priority services restored immediately.
