The business on the other side of the questionnaire
Consider a Sydney SaaS company close to signing its first major US customer. Commercial terms are agreed. Then the buyer sent a security questionnaire and asked for evidence that nobody could find quickly. The deal slowed down, although nothing about the product had changed. The immediate problem looked administrative. Someone needed to finish a form. […]
AI in Finance: What CFOs Told Us, What the Data Says, and Five Moves to Make This Week
Findings from the DNX and AWS AI in Finance Roundtable, Sydney, September 2026 In September, DNX and AWS brought a group of CFOs and senior finance leaders together in Sydney, from retail, manufacturing and financial services, to talk plainly about where AI actually stands in their businesses. What came out of it lines up closely […]
AI Regulation is Coming to Australia: Most of what it will ask, you can already work out.
Australia spent seven years deciding not to regulate AI. The Ethics Principles were voluntary. The AI Safety Standard was voluntary. The proposed mandatory guardrails for high-risk AI were shelved as recently as December 2025. Then on 15 July the government changed its mind: an Office of AI established inside PM&C, and a mandatory set of […]
DNX Solutions Achieves AWS Managed Service Provider Status
Sydney, NSW – [13 August 2026] – DNX Solutions, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner and systems integrator serving customers across Australia, New Zealand, and the broader Asia-Pacific and Japan region, announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Managed Service Provider (MSP) status. This designation recognises that DNX Solutions has demonstrated the technical […]
DNX Solutions Named Finalist in Two Categories at the 2026 CRN Channel Awards
Sydney, NSW – [xx August 2026] – DNX Solutions has been shortlisted as a finalist in two categories at the 2026 CRN Channel Awards Australia: Solution Provider Innovation/Project of the Year, and Solution Provider of the Year (50-99 employees). The CRN Channel Awards are judged by an independent panel and recognise the strongest-performing partners, vendors, […]
Cloud, Bots, and Bills: Why unwanted traffic can make a public API more expensive to defend
A few days ago I watched a developer on r/aws work through his first real month of production billing. The compute was fine. The database was fine. The unexpected line was the firewall: he was paying, per request, to inspect and reject traffic from bots that cost their operators very little to send. His verdict […]
The Essential Eight Is Retiring. Your Security Strategy Shouldn’t Be Caught Off Guard.
The Essential Eight is the government’s baseline checklist for cyber hygiene: patching, multi-factor authentication, backups, the fundamentals every Australian organisation is expected to have covered. For nearly a decade, the Essential Eight has been the common language of cyber security in Australia. Boards asked about it, auditors measured against it, and vendors built entire practices […]
AI Is Not the Hard Part. Here Is What Is.
Highlights from the AWS AI First Executive Forum Intercontinental Melbourne set a fitting backdrop for a forum about the future: bluestone architecture, heritage elegance, and a room full of senior leaders ready to talk about what comes next. As the keynotes from AWS and OpenAI unfolded, a striking realisation emerged: the technological bottleneck had dissolved. […]
DNX Solutions Achieves AWS AI Services Competency
Sydney, NSW – [21 April 2026] – Earning an AWS Competency in AI in 2026 should be hard. Most organisations have discovered that AI capability is easy to claim and difficult to demonstrate under production conditions. The AWS AI Services Competency exists precisely because that distinction matters, and DNX Solutions now holds it. The designation […]
DNX Signs Agreement with AWS for Microsoft Modernisation Incentive Program
Sydney, NSW – DNX Solutions, an Australian cloud-native systems integrator and trusted AWS Premier Partner, today announced it has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) under the Microsoft Modernisation (MODNET) Partner Performance Incentive Program. DNX is one of only a select group of partners in the APJ region formally recognised […]