Zach Marzouk
Zach Marzouk is a former ITPro, CloudPro, and ChannelPro staff writer, covering topics like security, privacy, worker rights, and startups, primarily in the Asia Pacific and the US regions. Zach joined ITPro in 2017 where he was introduced to the world of B2B technology as a junior staff writer, before he returned to Argentina in 2018, working in communications and as a copywriter. In 2021, he made his way back to ITPro as a staff writer during the pandemic, before joining the world of freelance in 2022.
After studying an undergraduate degree in Arabic and Spanish at the University of Leeds, Zach completed a journalism internship at The Argentina Independent in Buenos Aires where he wrote about the country’s history, politics, and technology.
Contact him at zach.marzouk@futurenet.com or find Zach’s thoughts (and more) on Twitter @ZachMarzouk
Latest articles by Zach Marzouk

Japan just isn't taking digital transformation seriously enough
By Zach Marzouk published
Opinion It’s a bad sign when the digital minister chuckles about the prominence of floppy disks at an overseas tech conference

Equinix invests $160 million in South Africa data centre, following Google, AWS
By Zach Marzouk published
News The data centre company hopes to expand services to the roughly 48 million people currently using the internet in South Africa

A third of employees unable to digitally switch off over Christmas period
By Zach Marzouk published
News Only 38% of bosses expect employees to switch off entirely

Telstra blames IT blunder for leak of 130,000 customer records
By Zach Marzouk published
News Australia’s biggest telco said that the error was due to a mismanagement of databases and not a cyber attack

Embattled Medibank faces 48-hour outage as cyber security upgrade begins
By Zach Marzouk published
News The Australian company has called in Microsoft experts as it deals with the fallout of a data breach that led to 9.7 million exposed customer records

Australia aims to be most cyber-secure country by 2030
By Zach Marzouk published
News The country is assembling an offensive cyber team which will hunt down people seeking to hack Australia’s systems

Google unearths Internet Explorer zero day exploited by North Korean hackers
By Zach Marzouk published
News The exploit was found after analysing malware embedded in documents targeting users in South Korea

UK and Japan strike digital partnership to collaborate on IoT security, semiconductors
By Zach Marzouk published
News The two countries are also set to align their approaches to digital regulation to make it easier for companies to operate in each nation

Unpatched Exchange servers could be behind Rackspace's ransomware attack
By Zach Marzouk published
News One security researcher suggested the company's Exchange server build log numbers were from August, months before ProxyNotShell patches were released

Meta, Airtel, STC to extend world's longest subsea cable to India
By Zach Marzouk published
News Once complete, the undersea cable will connect three continents and measure over 45,000km

Another Salesforce leader departs, will replace outbound Slack CEO
By Zach Marzouk published
News Slack's CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield also announced the departure of two other executives, but said the timing was purely coincidental

Stack Overflow temporarily bans ChatGPT from platform
By Zach Marzouk published
News The platform’s moderators aim to limit answers created using the AI tool, citing accuracy concerns

Cyber attack hits French hospital forcing patients to be moved
By Zach Marzouk published
News The hospital shut down its network as a precaution after a south Parisien hospital had to do the same in August

Netherlands urges citizens to prepare survival kits in case hackers target critical infrastructure
By Zach Marzouk published
News The latest campaign from the national coordinator for security echoes the growing concern in the UK government over serious cyber attacks

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 review: A gorgeous screen for an ugly price
By Zach Marzouk published
Reviews Samsung's high-end flip device hides a beautiful screen which, when unveiled, will impress most users

MoD taps AWS for skills training amid digital transformation struggle
By Zach Marzouk published
News The cloud giant will support the ministry’s digital skills programme where it will deliver training to leaders and professionals at the MoD

Spanish spyware outfit uncovered, develops exploits for Windows, Chrome, and Firefox
By Zach Marzouk published
News Google was only able to discover the company after an anonymous submission was made to its Chrome bug reporting programme

Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor resigns with cryptic parting message
By Zach Marzouk published
News The departure of the executive mirrors the actions taken by his predecessor, who only was in the role for 18 months before leaving as well

Why Japan finds it so hard to digitally transform
By Zach Marzouk published
In-depth The nation’s leaders are battling to change a static workplace culture that's still in love with fax machines and floppy disks

MSG giant Ajinomoto's chipmaking foray helps break financial records
By Zach Marzouk published
News In addition to umami seasoning, the company produces a microfilm insulation used by the semiconductor industry which was repurposed from its amino acid technology

India to trial digital rupee from December 2022
By Zach Marzouk published
News The real-time performance of the CBDC could see India becoming one of the very countries in the world to adopt a nationwide digital currency

Civil servants blame legacy technology for sluggish government digital transformation progress
By Zach Marzouk published
News UK government also lagging on training with fewer than a fifth of civil servants receiving any in the past two years

Nvidia rolls out AI platform across NHS hospitals
By Zach Marzouk published
News The platform ensures that patient data never leaves the hospital trust when an AI algorithm analyses medical records
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