With a background that started at computer store back in the 1990's, Symantec's COO Stephen Gillett has climbed the corporate ladder rapidly. After being spotted by the Chairman of the largest hospital chain in the Pacific northwest of the USA while working at Office Depot, he was appointed as the IT manager of a new hospital. After moving from that to his own start up, he became the CIO of Starbucks at the age of 31. He's now the COO of Symantec.
Anthony Caruana |
14 Apr |
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The physical security world has been in the midst of a significant change over recent years. Old security cameras, that could be connected with a coaxial cable and some power, are giving way to IP enabled devices. This has lead to a complete rethink on how security systems are designed, deployed, operated and maintained.
Anthony Caruana |
10 Apr |
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There's not a company worth its salt that hasn’t, at least, given some consideration to crisis planning. Most of our crisis planning is based upon basic risk management strategies. Come up with a bunch of potential scenarios, apply some analysis to get a handle on likelihood and impact, and then come up with mitigation and management strategies.
Anthony Caruana |
10 Apr |
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During an Australian exclusive interview at Interop in Las Vegas, BlackBerry’s Jeff Holleran, the Senior Director of Enterprise Product Management, revealed that the recent expansion of the BlackBerry software to iOS and Android wasn't their end game.
Anthony Caruana |
09 Apr |
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For the last couple of years CIOs and CSOs have been fighting to manage the rising tide of personal devices entering the enterprise. But that's changing as people start to bring their own cloud apps and services into the enterprise. BYOC – Bring your own Cloud – is the new challenge.
Anthony Caruana |
01 Apr |
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Given the billions of dollars that have been invested in security over the last decade or so, you'd expect that malware distributors and data thieves to be scurrying away with their tails between their legs. But that's simply not the case.
Anthony Caruana |
31 Mar |
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Software Defined Networks are here. In just a couple of years they have moved from theory and are now part of every CIO's planning. And that means a significant rethink is needed when looking at security. With many critical functions moving off proprietary hardware towards open platforms where core functions are abstracted to software, the way networks are managed and secured is changing.
Anthony Caruana |
31 Mar |
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We've all heard the same story recently – malware developers and distributors are becoming far smarter and commercially minded than ever before. The days of disgruntled teenagers hacking from their dimly lit bedrooms are behind us with corporatised criminal gangs now working as organized syndicates intent on stealing identities and extorting money.
Anthony Caruana |
24 Mar |
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Australian banks and other large enterprises are being targeted by the banking trojan Hesperbot. According to ESET, who first detected Hesperbot in November 2013, this is putting at risk the financial information of millions of customers.
Anthony Caruana |
21 Mar |
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Amongst the key themes covered at the recent Connect 2014 event in Melbourne were the Internet of Things and machine-to-machine communications.
Anthony Caruana |
18 Mar |
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HP's annual Pwn2Own contest has been run and won. Critical flaws in every major browser, which allowed remote code execution, were found as well as issues with Adobe's Flash and Reader products.
Pwn2Own is a hacker contest that runs within the CanSecWest event in Vancouver. Hackers are offered cash prizes as incentives as well as donations of computer hardware and other prizes given to the security researchers.
Anthony Caruana |
15 Mar |
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Bitcoin, and the other crypto-currencies that are available, have garnered plenty of attention over the last year or so – and not all of that has been good. Some analysts have found strong correlations between the fluctuating exchange rate of Bitcoin and the activities of malware distributors and other nefarious actors. And the recent Mt Gox (a Bitcoin currency exchange) revelations that as much as half a billion dollars of Bitcoin had been stolen, rendering the company insolvent, have highlighted the volatility and transience of virtual currencies.
Anthony Caruana |
14 Mar |
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The new Australian privacy legislation that came into effect on 12 March 2014 has increased the pressure on businesses to correctly collect, store, secure and dispose of Personally Identifiable Information. But does you business really know what information they are storing and where it is?
Ground Labs has released Data Recon, a Personally Identifiable Information (PII) discovery tool designed to find the data hiding on computers within your business.
Anthony Caruana |
14 Mar |
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One of the challenges facing today's IT departments is providing secure access to corporate systems. These might be locally hosted applications or cloud services that the business needs to access from smartphones and tablets.
Anthony Caruana |
14 Mar |
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Windows XP is just a few short weeks away from coming out of support from Microsoft. And that means no more updates for security vulnerabilities. So, what's that mean for businesses? Can they just carry on as if nothing has changed or will retaining Microsoft's most popular OS create new risks for the enterprise?
Anthony Caruana |
13 Mar |
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