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Should vulnerabilities and malware be our #1 security priority?

Zero-days, SQL injection, memory overflows and other kinds of creative abuse in the digital domain are a huge concern for many Internet-facing organisations. Commonly, a large proportion of IT budgets are bent towards ways to protect against these threats. Organisations deploy everything from IPS, IDS, SIEM, anti-virus and vulnerability scanners to look for the proverbial needle, and in many cases it’s a core function of IT security’s mandate. Rightly so, as it is an important and timely concern, but should this be our top priority?

Craig Dore | 02 Mar | Read more
Australian security investments increasingly driven “from the top down”: Cisco GM

A growing governmental focus on cybersecurity issues has contributed to a marked upswing in cybersecurity investment that is now often being driven from the board level, according to the head of Cisco Systems’ local security business.

David Braue | 02 Mar | Read more
Australia's cloud appetite fed by big data: new WatchGuard head

Increasing use of big-data techniques is contributing to a stronger overall response to the expanding threat profile modern organisations face, the new regional head of security vendor WatchGuard Technologies has observed.

David Braue | 15 Sep | Read more
Security software and services budgets to increase in 2010

Overall IT budgets may have been put on a diet in the current economic climate, but security software and services spending is tipped to outpace other IT areas in 2010, according to a new survey by Gartner.

Georgina Swan | 09 Sep | Read more