Today, Red Education is honoured to be recognised as one of Australia and New Zealand’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in the prestigious annual list published by The Australian Financial Review BOSS.
We are delighted to be included in the top 10 in the Government, Education & Not-for-profit category from over 700 nominated organisations across Australia and New Zealand. The assessment is based on an innovation framework developed by Inventium. In making the award, the judges look at how valuable the problem is that the innovation is solving, the quality and uniqueness of the solution, and the level of impact that the innovation has had.
Red Education was thrilled to be recognised by AFR Boss for their custom-built virtual software lab environment.
“For the past seventeen years, Red Education has been working extremely closely with the cybersecurity community, its sole mission being to bridge the skills gap crisis facing the industry as a whole,” said Mike Baird, Managing Director at Red Education.
“Training cannot be underestimated. Only just recently, Australia has witnessed its largest cyber security incident ever seen, with the fallout of data theft of almost 10 million customers in the telecommunications industry.
We’ve all seen the massive disruption this has caused our community, jeopardising the very process of customer identification.
We cannot ignore the importance of a highly skilled IT workforce anymore, otherwise, these situations will increasingly disrupt the very fabric of future society. Through ongoing specialised certification training, we address the skills gap to minimise and restrict criminal activity that jeopardises our digital identity, and the disruption to global services and commerce,” said Baird.
“It is so encouraging to see Australian entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs continuing to come up with fresh ideas and executing them. Innovations such as those highlighted in the 2022 AFR BOSS Most Innovative Companies list should help to propel our economy,” said Sally Patten, Editor at BOSS.
Red Education Custom Virtual Software Lab Environment
The accolade was awarded to Red Education in recognition of their custom-built virtual software lab environment.
Virtual labs simulate real-world software environments and are used at the end of every Red Education training course. We believe that this is the best method to reinforce learning, enabling students to test workflows and resilience to cyber-attacks safely before implementation in their workplaces. This provides tangible benefits to students and the businesses they work for, building confidence and competence and reducing risk. The virtual labs are built internally to support the vendor technologies that Red Education services and are hosted across numerous systems and locations to reduce latency and replicate a real-world environment.
About the ARF Boss Most Innovative Companies List
The AFR BOSS Most Innovative Companies list (previously the BRW Most Innovative Companies list) is now in its eleventh year. The list ranks the most innovative organisations in Australia and New Zealand, by industry, and is the only national list of its kind.
“I am proud to accept this award on behalf of Red Education, and sincerely thank AFR for its recognition of the importance of the critical service we provide to the IT community and by extension the broader community,” said Mike Baird.
About Red Education
Red Education is a multi-award winning global Information Technology – Accredited Certification Training Company (ATC) headquartered in Sydney, Australia. With training hubs across ANZ, ASIA, SAARC, the Americas, Middle East and Europe, more than 70 Red Education instructors across multiple regions and time zones deliver technical training programs to the IT community in multiple languages. We are proud to have earned an NPS score of 94 from our students and a 98% customer satisfaction rating.
About The Australian Financial Review
For more than 50 years The Australian Financial Review has been the authority on business, finance and investment news in Australia. It has a reputation for independent, award-winning journalism and is essential reading for Australia’s business and investor community. The Australian Financial Review is owned by Nine, a leading multi-platform media company in Australasia. www.afr.com
