As MeasureUp prepares to mark its tenth year, IAB Australia is calling for evidence-based speaker submissions that move beyond theory and demonstrate how measurement frameworks can deliver trusted, comparable results across channels.

New Qualys TRU research reveals a widening gap between attacker exploitation speed and defender remediation capacity, with exploitation now occurring before disclosure and manual remediation unable to keep pace with machine-speed threats.

Political and social polarisation is changing when, where and how companies speak out on societal issues, according to the 2026 Global Communication Report from the USC Annenberg Centre for Public Relations.

iTWire covers Qualys’ launch of Agent Val, an AI agent designed to validate exploitability and enable autonomous remediation, helping security teams move from assumed risk to verified, prioritised action.

SMBtech reports that Meltwater has become an official Reddit data partner, giving customers enhanced access to public Reddit insights from more than 100,000 communities.

Mi3 reports on IAB Australia’s Future of Measurement initiative, an industry-wide project examining how advertising opportunities, delivery signals and business outcomes are assessed as media consumption fragments.

Techpartner.news covers SailPoint’s launch of Shadow AI Remediation, a browser-based tool designed to help organisations discover, monitor and control unauthorised AI use across the business.

iTWire covers SailPoint’s strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to help organisations secure agentic AI through a unified identity governance layer spanning human, machine and AI agent identities.

AdNews covers Magnite’s partnership with NOVA Entertainment to enable programmatic buying across the Nova Retail Network, giving advertisers access to in-store digital audio inventory at the point of purchase.

SecurityBrief covers SailPoint’s latest identity security updates, including new tools to govern AI agents, machine identities and privileged access as non-human identities rapidly expand across enterprise environments.

ChannelLife covers Seagate’s launch of its next-generation Mozaic 4+ HAMR hard drive platform, with 44TB drives now in production with two hyperscale cloud providers to support rising AI-driven data storage demand.

Radio Today reports on IAB Australia’s 2026 Digital Audio State of the Nation Report, highlighting continued buyer confidence in podcasts and streaming audio alongside a growing focus on measurement, accountability and responsible AI adoption.