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As 2025 unfolds, the cybersecurity landscape is set to undergo a range of changes driven by advancements in technology, cost concerns, and growing demands for robust data privacy. For IT security teams, navigating these changes effectively will be critical to maintaining resilient infrastructures that support their organisation’s core objectives.
As 2025 unfolds, Australian local governments will face a complex mix of challenges and opportunities set to redefine their operations and interactions with communities. A combination of budget constraints, shifts in talent, advances in technology, and evolving communication channels are likely to influence how councils deliver services, protect data, and engage with residents.
Many Australian organisations have a goal to transform their businesses and business models using artificial intelligence.
Australian businesses are enthusiastic about the value that can be created by experimenting with and implementing AI. But they are counterbalancing this enthusiasm with caution: advancing down the AI path with an emphasis on using AI responsibly.
At a time when many organisations are being asked to do more with less (or to do more with the same amount of resourcing), there is pressure across both frontline delivery and back-office enablement functions to find efficiencies that save money and, perhaps more importantly, cut down on effort – as time that can be reinvested into more value-generating activity.
Local Government in Australia provides an opportunity-rich environment for artificial intelligence (AI) use cases, and it has been this way for a number of years.
Australia’s 500+ Councils face a unique array of cyber resilience challenges, owing to the broad range of services they provide. Local Government responsibilities cover everything from roads, waste collection and management, recreation facilities, and health and community services, to cultural facilities like libraries and art galleries, and – in regional and rural Australia – water, sewerage and aerodromes.