As we head into 2026, the biggest gains come from using AI to remove everyday friction - reducing manual workload, speeding up decisions, and giving teams more time for meaningful work. This blog explores why now is the ideal moment for practical, sustainable AI adoption, and how VITD helps organisations take sensible, high-impact steps that fit their existing systems, processes, and capacity.

Before adopting any AI tools, the most valuable step an organisation can take is understanding whether its existing processes, data, and workflows are ready for AI to genuinely help. This blog breaks down the practical readiness steps most teams overlook, from clarifying workflows to improving information access, and explains how VITD supports organisations with sensible, achievable preparation that makes AI safer, easier, and far more effective to implement.

Each year, the Australian Cyber Security Centre releases its Annual Cyber Threat Report and the latest one (FY 2024-25) confirms what many of us working in IT already suspected: the cyber threat landscape in Australia is increasing in scale, cost and sophistication.