Approval for new projects will drive an increase in hiring of IT professionals across Australia, according to the latest report from recruitment consultancy Robert Walters. [ + ]

With business use of mobile apps certain to increase, CIOs need to start planning to address the high total cost of developing and maintaining them, UXC Connect's Denise Carson argues. [ + ]

UNSW's new Australian Centre for Cyber Security at ADFA will bring together the largest cohort of security experts in Australia, according to the new facility's director. [ + ]

With cloud-based CRM provider Salesforce.com launching its dev kit for wearable technologies, promises that wearable tech will reach enterprise level may soon be realised. [ + ]

More than half of Australian organisations with more than 20 employees have adopted public cloud IaaS for at least part of their IT infrastructure, research from Telsyte shows. [ + ]

Large enterprises plan to move nearly half of their SAP on-premise environment to the cloud within the next two years, creating a $41.5bn market segment, a survey indicates. [ + ]

A survey of Australian data recovery customers shows that 65% blamed HDD failures for their most recent data loss incident, compared to 16% for SSD drives. [ + ]

A new trends report from Deloitte says CIOs should consider managing their ICT portfolios in the same way that venture capitalists do. [ + ]

The Heartbleed vulnerability was just the tip of the iceberg, says a Palo Alto Networks report which reveals that 32% of applications are capable of using SSL. [ + ]

File sharing has led to a serious loss of control for some companies when it comes to keeping data locked down. But steps can be taken to mitigate the risks, and even enhance productivity. [ + ]

IBM has moved into third place in the global security software market, while security software spending in Australia in 2013 reached $408.1 million, an increase of 8% over 2012, says Gartner research. [ + ]

Despite the continuing development of virtual machine migration-related capabilities, various networking challenges continue to fester, including onerous networking reconfigurations and inadequate virtual LAN IDs for scaling secure private networks. [ + ]

Research from Imperva shines light on the comment spam epidemic, revealing that a small minority of attackers generate the majority of spam volumes. [ + ]

The growth in mobile e-commerce will leave businesses critically exposed to data breaches unless they ramp up their IT security, says consulting firm Protiviti. [ + ]

By 2018, more than 90% of IT roles will be affected by adoption of the four major disruptive IT technologies - cloud, big data, mobile and social - IDC forecasts. [ + ]