While Paul Jones has been CIO of Qantas for less than a year, he has spearheaded a number of IT projects at the airline including a freight enterprise resource planning (ERP) replacement.

Mike Disbury has been chief information officer of Perth-based project services company, Programmed Group, for five years.

Businesses have been lax to implement defence mechanisms against malware on mobile devices, despite the acceleration of the ‘bring-your-own-device’ (BYOD) trend in the workplace.

Educating employees on how to protect data on their smartphones and tablets is crucial to bring-your-own-device (BYOD) security, according to a panel of security experts.