By Stuart Long, Chief Technology Officer, Orro 2025 was the year the conversation changed. From my perspective as a CTO working closely with complex infrastructure environments, the shift has been unmistakable. For years, technology strategy was shaped by velocity — faster adoption, broader experimentation, and an almost reflexive pursuit of “what’s next”. But this year, […]
Hybrid work didn’t collapse in 2025 — but it did hit a turning point. After years of digital overload, tool sprawl, back-to-back video calls and the constant battle to feel included in hybrid discussions, workplace fatigue became impossible to ignore. Employees weren’t asking for more features or more platforms. They were asking for something far […]
For decades, the belief that operational technology (OT) systems were “safe by separation” shaped how Australia’s critical infrastructure was built, managed and defended. Air-gapped environments were treated as inherently secure — physically isolated, shielded from the internet, and largely immune to the threat landscape engulfing IT. 2025 proved, conclusively, that this assumption is dead. Not […]
In the early rush of AI adoption, optimism was not just high — it was intoxicating. Boards asked how quickly it could be deployed. Executives spoke of productivity leaps, smarter decisions and intelligent automation transforming entire operating models overnight. AI was heralded as the next foundational shift, on par with cloud or mobile. By 2025, […]
In 2025, a quiet but profound shift took place in Australian boardrooms. For years, the dominant measure of cyber confidence had been compliance. Frameworks were adopted, audits completed, reports filed. Organisations took comfort in certificates, benchmarks and regulatory tick-boxes that signalled they were doing the “right things”. But when real-world incidents began unfolding with increasing […]
In the early 2020s, networks became too big, too bespoke, and too brittle. Years of layering new capabilities over old foundations left countless Australian organisations with environments that technically worked — but only just. Appliances sprawled across sites, tools overlapped, configurations diverged, and operational risk quietly accumulated. It was complexity by accretion, and by 2024, […]
