Australian IT experts are struggling to secure increasingly complex networks and increasing compliance pressure isn’t providing enough incentive for change, a security expert has warned as looming breach-notification legislation threatens to publicly expose poor risk management practices and their consequences.
David Braue | 08 Jun | Read more
After a year in which |Budget allocations focused on cybersecurity industry and capability development, that industry has cautiously welcomed the more targeted funding announced as the Turnbull government uses this week’s federal Budget for 2017-18 to respond to a series of government IT-security disasters.
David Braue | 11 May | Read more
Increasingly-accessible penetration testing services are helping businesses build iterative security testing into product development lifecycles and Internet of Things (IoT) manufacturers are among the most enthusiastic adopters, the head of IBM’s penetration testing operation has reported as the nascent unit nears the end of its first year in operation.
David Braue | 11 May | Read more
Even as one-time Internet giant Yahoo is swallowed in a $6.5 billion acquisition, merger and acquisitions (M&A) experts have warned that due-diligence audits of companies targeted for acquisition often reveal cybersecurity risks that compromise compliance and could threaten the merger and acquisition activities.
David Braue | 01 Aug | Read more
A $33.3m investment in large-scale identity management systems will form a cornerstone of the government's Digital Transformation Office (DTO) – an umbrella effort to securely push government service delivery online – which will be fast-tracked through a $254.7m Budget allocation over four years that will see numerous other agencies chipping in to support the transformation agenda.
David Braue | 13 May | Read more
Australian CSOs' decision-making was driven more by economic conditions in 2013 than any other factor, according to a recent survey that also found bring your own device (BYOD) strategies continue to represent the biggest security headache for information-security executives.
David Braue | 20 Dec | Read more
Australia has experienced a declining participation in government-lead critical infrastructure protection (CIP) programs this year due to fewer resources, according to a new survey from Symantec.
Hamish Barwick | 14 Nov | Read more
Gartner is predicting that corporate spending across the world for a broad swath of security services will climb from about $US35 billion today to $US49 billion in three years, with the managed security services expected to jump most of all.
Ellen Messmer | 11 Nov | Read more
According to figures released recently by Kaspersky Lab, 1300 IT pros were asked about IT risks and security spending. Among large companies, the average security budget is $3.35 million, according to Kaspersky's data.
Joan Goodchild | 12 Oct | Read more
1. Asking for a 10 percent budget increase in the next fiscal year:
Derek Slater | 26 Aug | Read more
More budget? Perhaps a little. More attention from senior management? Yes, a bit. Better results? That's not so clear.
Derek Slater | 18 Aug | Read more
As a CSO and CIO you may be wondering why I crafted a diagnostic related to understanding your most critical web products. The original purpose of the diagnostic was to discern which applications and how applications are ported successfully to a service provider's cloud. The diagnostic determines which cloud IaaS products (storage components, network components, and virtualization machines) are needed for an application. It addresses the platform components (server/operating system and web server) in the PaaS layer. Lastly, it focuses on the SaaS software application.
Gregory Machler | 05 Aug | Read more