The week in security: As bugs persist, maybe Australians really should care more about privacy
Australia’s government may have been moving to tighten data privacy and access laws but Australians
David Braue | 24 Sep | Read more
Australia’s government may have been moving to tighten data privacy and access laws but Australians
David Braue | 24 Sep | 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
New guidelines for data sharing have provided clarity for businesses around their privacy and data breach obligations, but 2019 will see even greater improvements as emergent California privacy guidelines trigger privacy protections across the globe.
David Braue | 28 Nov | Read more
As users what we want is to share more and have more privacy. It is through this prisoner dilemma that over this weekend Digi.me, ID Exchange and Alibaba Cloud joined forces to bring the power of personal data and private sharing to communities in regional NSW by delivering the digi.spark hackathon hosted at UTS as part of New South Wales Spark Festival.
Abigail Swabey | 28 Oct | Read more
Businesses around the world may now be operating under the tough privacy protections of the European Union’s general data protection regulation (GDPR), but ongoing confusion about its requirements and terminology has kept security experts working overtime to ensure compliance.
David Braue | 30 May | Read more
Years of anticipation and preparation came to a head with the commencement of the European Union’s general data protection regulation (GDPR) privacy scheme. Yet even as the new regime kicked into gear, Australian companies were still figuring out their exposure and, by some accounts, had failed to train employees how to handle GDPR data requests.
David Braue | 29 May | Read more
UK plays cat and mouse with Russian hackers.
Comfort with cloud-services adoption is growing steadily but Australian companies are lagging the world in backing their cloud enthusiasm with real action to meet compliance and privacy obligations, according to new figures that reinforce recent concerns about the openness of cloud-based data.
David Braue | 17 Jan | Read more
Poor or no cybersecurity training, a lack of repeatable security processes, failure to align business and cybersecurity goals and a short-term view have all exacerbated a cybersecurity skills crisis that is widening, according to a new global study, despite a range of efforts to address it in new ways.
David Braue | 09 Nov | Read more
Australian companies will need to be better at compliance with the European Union’s new data privacy protections than they are at complying with PCI DSS financial-data security regulations, according to new figures that confirm executives are unhappy with their compliance progress and validate consumers’ concerns that businesses are not protecting their confidential data adequately.
David Braue | 05 Sep | Read more
Even tech firms fall for business email compromise scams.
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 security industry’s predictions for 2017 have been flying thick and fast in the leadup to the Christmas break, but consistency between the key themes suggests that the safe money is on a rise in damaging distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and increasingly sophisticated human-targeted compromises.
David Braue | 23 Dec | Read more
Enterprise access management firm OneLogin has suffered an embarrassing breach tied to a single employee’s credentials being compromised.
Gartner’s Research Director for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Brian Reed recently presented at the company’s annual Security and Risk Management Summit, held in Sydney.
Anthony Caruana | 25 Aug | Read more