Big businesses may spend more on security but their complexity makes them easier to hack, a former teenage hacker told an audience of big-business CSOs in opening up a day of insights at CSO Australia’s SecurIT conference this month.
David Braue | 14 Jun | Read more
A CEO’s poor password hygiene enabled an escalating series of attacks that capped off a 50-day hacking spree that sent several members of hacking group LulzSec to jail and caused significant financial and reputational damage for companies like Fox News, US broadcasters Fox News and PBS, and Sony’s PlayStation Network.
David Braue | 14 Jun | Read more
CISOs in healthcare organisations are working hard to tighten security controls but pervasive issues with user errors, limited staff and financial resources, and a relentless flood of aggressive attacks by data-hungry cyberattackers, are hindering their progress – and even security executives admit they’re not doing anywhere near as good a job as they should be.
David Braue | 12 Jun | Read more
More than 80 percent of companies are suffering security and compliance risks due to poorly defined and inadequate data-management policies, according to new research that blames poor management of ‘dark data’ for a host of enterprise inefficiencies.
David Braue | 12 Jun | Read more
They may have exfiltrated personal data by different means, but this week’s successful compromise of Westpac’s PayID service highlights the continuing threat faced by organisations whose business relies on collecting large volumes of sensitive information.
David Braue | 06 Jun | Read more
It’s been over a year since the European Union enacted its GDPR data-privacy legislation – and as experts debate its effectiveness
David Braue | 04 Jun | Read more
The employment market is hungry for “future focused” executives with the ability to manage cybersecurity risk at the board level, according to a recent jobs market update that also found employers put a premium on executives who understand the need to continually test systems through regular red-teaming and penetration testing.
David Braue | 29 May | Read more
The European Union’s tough privacy laws may have gathered momentum as they head into their second year, but one compliance specialist warns that the Australian government needs to take the initiative to motivate Australian companies that are still coming to grips with the legislation and don’t realise its potential impact on their businesses.
David Braue | 28 May | Read more
Straight from the should-have-known-better files, IT services firm HCL was found to have left employee passwords, and details of customer projects, exposed online without any form of authentication.
David Braue | 28 May | Read more
Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting senior business executives directly as they look for new ways to navigate technological and human defences, according to a detailed analysis of data breaches from 2018.
David Braue | 23 May | Read more
Improving attention and retention rates may have shown that humour is a better training tool than fear, but a security-training pioneer believes the two will come together productively as cyber insurers crack down on training and impending ‘Phishing 2.0’ features allow CISOs to engage with employees the second they click on a malicious link or attachment.
David Braue | 22 May | Read more
Increasingly complex populations of medical devices are creating new challenges for healthcare CISOs and their teams that are increasingly assuming responsibility for operational technology (OT) networks, according to an analysis of live healthcare systems that flagged a host of active security problems.
David Braue | 21 May | Read more
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David Braue | 21 May | Read more
Many security leaders are losing their sense of purpose as development teams increasingly meet security needs using automation and API-based integration with cloud-based security tools, a global cloud-security expert has warned.
David Braue | 21 May | Read more
Those of you thinking quantum computing is too far off to worry about, should spend a few minutes with an encryption engineer talking about the need for Post-Quantum Computing (PQC) algorithms.
David Braue | 20 May | Read more