Many small and innovative companies struggle to access security expertise, but building on a cloud platform from the beginning has helped fast-growing Australian educational tools developer Saasyan quickly ramp up its business while tapping cloud-hosted security and other services.
David Braue |
22 Jul |
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Facebook copped a massive fine for privacy violations – but will it be enough to force the industry to be more proactive about protecting users’ privacy? Opinions are divided.
David Braue |
22 Jul |
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The laissez-faire attitude of many companies towards consumer privacy protections is catching up with them after a series of massive fines sent shockwaves through a business community already reeling from an escalating cybersecurity threat climate.
David Braue |
17 Jul |
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Formal temporary skills programs have “helped to fill important skills gaps” in areas like cybersecurity, a new analysis has concluded while warning that regular changes to the programs are creating problems for employers that need more certainty in their workforce planning.
David Braue |
17 Jul |
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Massive GDPR fines for data breaches were the order of the week as British Airways copped a £183m ($A328m) fine for a hack of its website last year.
David Braue |
17 Jul |
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Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) may have only emerged as an industry buzzword a little over a year ago, but the integrSecurity orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) may have only emerged as an industry buzzword a little over a year ago, but the integration and automation that lie at its core have rapidly gained currency with CSOs whose roles increasingly involve unifying silos of security information and translating them into action.
David Braue |
08 Jul |
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Fraud is hardly a new phenomenon online, but organisations’ ability to detect and fight it has increased as ever-richer machine learning models help helping experts apply analytic techniques to detect “once in a blue moon” events such as business email compromise (BEC) and high-value financial transfers.
David Braue |
03 Jul |
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An Australian IT consultant has been
David Braue |
02 Jul |
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A recent spate of damaging DNS-level attacks was promulgated with “terrifying” ease by cybercriminals who leveraged compromised access credentials rather than even having to hack the DNS servers themselves, a DNS expert has warned.
David Braue |
01 Jul |
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Financial institutions will be expected to exhaustively evaluate the information-security practices of strategic partners and service providers from July 1, as new CPS234 regulations take effect in a process that will light a fire under industry compliance efforts – and threaten banks with fines if they don’t stop cyberattacks.
David Braue |
26 Jun |
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When it emerged years ago that the mobile phone of German chancellor Angela Merkel
David Braue |
25 Jun |
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It might all have been easier if the Internet had never existed, but the compromise of WhatsApp reflects the ever-changing nature of attacks in today’s cybersecurity threat climate.
David Braue |
24 Jun |
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A capacity crowd of security executives attended CSO Australia’s SecureIT conference this month, with a compelling lineup that was kicked off by former LulzSec hacker Mustafa al-Bassam, whose exploits hacking top-tier businesses landed him in handcuffs at just 16 years old.
David Braue |
18 Jun |
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Just as many CSOs are focused on automating their organisational threat response, many others are focused on improving their visibility of network traffic – which, with encryption increasingly used to protect legitimate application traffic and obfuscate malware command-and-control (C&C) traffic, has become ever more difficult to do.
David Braue |
14 Jun |
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With the threat climate continuing unabated, the impact of increasing volumes of attacks – and increasing pressure to stop them – has taken its own toll on CSOs who, iOOF Holdings head of cybersecurity and technology risk Ashutosh Kapsé noted, suffer from high burnout rates, job-related physical and mental health issues, loss of a sense of purpose, and constant fears for their jobs.
David Braue |
14 Jun |
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