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Breach reporting in the AI era
Press Releases 24 Sep 2026

Breach reporting in the AI era

What 4,769 data breach notifications reveal about how Australian organisations detect and report data breaches in the AI era – 2022-present.

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Adaca in the News 29 Sep 2026

Government News: Agencies Slow to Detect Breaches

Government News reports on Adaca’s analysis of breach notifications, comparing detection and reporting times across government and other sectors. Founder Lambros Photios discusses threat monitoring and the processes behind reporting delays.

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Adaca in the News 29 Sep 2026

Cyber Daily: Government Lags Behind Private Sector in Breach Discovery

Cyber Daily covers Adaca’s analysis of Australian data breaches and the delays in government detection. Founder Lambros Photios discusses monitoring gaps and the need for agencies to identify and report breaches sooner.

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Adaca in the News 28 Sep 2026

Capital Brief: Government Data Breach Detection Delays

Capital Brief’s Political Capital newsletter cites Adaca’s analysis of breach notifications obtained through a Freedom of Information request. The coverage compares median detection times of 108 days for government departments and three days for the private sector.

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Adaca in the News 25 Sep 2026

news.com.au: Government Takes 36 Times Longer to Detect Data Breaches

news.com.au reports on Adaca’s analysis of breach notifications, which found median detection times of 108 days for government agencies and three days for the private sector. The NewsWire report includes commentary from Adaca founder Lambros Photios.

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Adaca in the News 25 Sep 2026

Yahoo News: Government Data Breach Detection Delays

Yahoo News carries NewsWire’s coverage of Adaca’s analysis of data obtained through Freedom of Information requests, comparing government and private-sector breach detection times and quoting founder Lambros Photios.

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Adaca in the News 22 Sep 2026

Technology Decisions: No, AI Hasn’t Replaced Australian Tech Jobs Yet

Technology Decisions publishes Adaca founder Lambros Photios’s commentary on Australian software employment and how lower development costs could create demand for custom software and developers.

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Adaca in the News 14 Sep 2026

AFR: Lambros Photios on AI Slowdown Calls and Competition

The Australian Financial Review quotes Adaca founder Lambros Photios on calls to slow frontier AI development. He warns that proposed measures could protect established firms and make it harder for Australian competitors to enter the market.

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Adaca in the News 25 Aug 2026

Capital Brief: Tech Company Growth Outpaces the Broader Economy

Capital Brief quotes Adaca founder Lambros Photios on the growth of Australian technology businesses. He discusses how AI coding tools are reducing the cost of replicating SaaS products and creating opportunities for new companies.

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Press Releases 10 Aug 2026

Sparke Helmore and Adaca team to form Trivity

Australian legal and software experts to deliver legally assured technology to public and private sector

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Adaca in the News 20 Jul 2026

Financial Standard: Adaca’s Analysis of ASIC’s $830m Penalties

Financial Standard covers our analysis of ASIC data obtained through a Freedom of Information request. The findings show civil penalties rising to $830 million in FY26 while the number of proceedings remained close to the long-term average.

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Adaca in the News 20 Jul 2026

IFA: ASIC Confirms Record $830m Civil Penalties

IFA reports on ASIC’s record $830 million in FY26 civil penalties, quoting Adaca founder Lambros Photios on gaps in AI governance and his expectation that stronger enforcement will continue.

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Adaca in the News 20 Jul 2026

ABC News: Adaca Analysis of ASIC’s Record Civil Penalties

ABC News covers our analysis of ASIC enforcement data obtained through a Freedom of Information request. Adaca founder Lambros Photios explains how larger penalties, rather than more cases, drove the record $830 million total in FY26.

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Adaca in the News 13 Jul 2026

IFA: ASIC on track for over $800m in civil penalties in FY26

ifa.com.au reports ASIC is on track for over $800 million in FY26 civil penalties, nearly matching the previous decade combined. Adaca founder Lambros Photios told ifa.com.au the regulator is setting a new standard on AI governance and data sovereignty.

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Press Releases 9 Jul 2026

ASIC's FY26 civil penalties are already a record, Adaca FOI analysis shows

Adaca's analysis of ASIC's own Freedom of Information data shows the regulator's FY26 civil penalty haul closed the year at $830 million, a record for any financial year, without any increase in the number of cases filed.

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Adaca in the News 9 Jul 2026

AFR: how AI is reshaping the legal sector

The Australian Financial Review on law firms restructuring around AI, moving beyond the billable hour and building their own platforms. The piece cites Sparke Helmore's partnership with Adaca to launch Trivity, an AI software venture serving government departments and banks.

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Adaca in the News 8 Jul 2026

InnovationAus: AI hasn't upended the labour market yet

InnovationAus covers a federal government report finding no broad AI-driven labour market disruption, with software development employment up 25% since November 2022. Adaca founder Lambros Photios argues developers are being displaced, not replaced.

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Adaca in the News 6 Jul 2026

The Register: software engineers can still rake in big bucks

The Register on Levels.fyi data showing software engineer pay tracks company growth. Adaca founder Lambros Photios notes Australia bucks the global trend, with programmer roles growing from 189,000 to 216,000.

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Adaca in the News 16 Jun 2026

IT Brief: Australia hits a record 216,000 software developers

IT Brief covers Adaca's "Devs in record demand" report and the record number of software developers now working in Australia.

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Adaca in the News 10 Jun 2026

Capital Brief: developer jobs grow despite AI layoff anxiety

Capital Brief's AI newsletter covers Adaca's "Devs in record demand" report: 216,000 programmers, up from 189,000, and the case that developers are being displaced, not replaced.

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Press Releases 9 Jun 2026

SaaS jobs apocalypse overblown, shows Adaca report

Record number of software developers working in Australia.

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Projects 7 Jun 2026

Adaca RED, our open-source operations platform

Adaca has open-sourced Adaca RED: an operations platform built around RED (Relevance, Extent and Duration), a way to measure how well an initiative reduces the risk it targets. MIT-licensed and self-hostable.

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Press Releases 26 May 2026

Devs in record demand

Why AI is displacing, not replacing Australian software developers. The data on a workforce that has more than tripled since 2006.

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Adaca in the News 23 Apr 2026

Adaca's Founder in the AFR on offshoring and STEM skills

Adaca founder Lambros Photios spoke to the Australian Financial Review about banks moving technology roles offshore, and what it means for Australian STEM skills.

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Press Releases 17 Apr 2026

AI layoffs have added AUD$549bn to global stock markets, says Adaca research

Software biz warns that gambling on AI layoff announcements is risky and short-sighted.

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Projects 16 Apr 2026

joblossimpact.ai: tracking how layoffs move stock prices

An Adaca-built public tracker correlating AI-era layoff announcements with the stock-price moves that followed, across dozens of listed companies. Data refreshed continuously.

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