Business email compromise (BEC) attacks have become the most lucrative form of cybercrime for increasingly meticulous, strategic criminals – and forthcoming changes in Australian banking settlements will turn local businesses into globally appealing targets, a security executive has warned.
David Braue | 19 Oct | Read more
The risk of cybersecurity compromise has become ubiquitous across business and government sectors, with new figures suggesting that nine out of every 10 Australian organisations dealt with an attempted or successful cybersecurity breach during fiscal 2015-16 – and that 58 percent had been successfully compromised.
David Braue | 20 Apr | Read more
It took years of discussion and several revisions, but experts believe the long-awaited passage of Australia’s breach notification legislation will kick off a new era of transparency that will rapidly improve understanding of the country’s real cybersecurity threat climate.
David Braue | 15 Feb | Read more
The large, traditional vendors and consultancies are being challenged by some very innovative and disruptive companies that look at the challenges of infosec in new ways.
Anthony Caruana | 28 Oct | Read more
Empowered by high-level endorsement of their collaboration, Australia's businesses and government bodies need to proactively leverage their growing body of threat intelligence into new defensive and offensive cybercrime strategies, one regional CISO has advised in the wake of his growing engagement with the country's cybersecurity community.
David Braue | 23 Aug | Read more
Organised criminals are using new tactics to put a new face on old crimes, and with overwhelming success. Better analysis of network data is emerging as a powerful defence helping Australian companies to harness the power of analytics to detect breaches early and minimize their exposure.