Small businesses accounted for 61 percent of cybersecurity breaches during 2016 but their exemption from looming mandatory breach disclosure laws could perpetuate a hidden epidemic of unrecognised vulnerabilities and underfunded security strategies, a Verizon security expert has warned as the company releases its 10th annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR).
David Braue | 27 Apr | Read more
A range of mobile apps are leaking back-end credentials that allow anybody to access millions of user records, a new study has found. This should come as little surprise given the sloppy approach taken by many organisations to securing privileged accounts, one analysis warns. Little wonder potential government cloud adopters are concerned about cloud-providers' lack of transparency.
David Braue | 23 Nov | Read more
For all the talk about the importance of new security technologies, the importance of staff buying into corporate security strategies is often underestimated. In every case, the predictable result is the same: a strong technological barrier whose effectiveness is immediately compromised once a legitimate user, with legitimate access to internal resources, clicks on a phishing email designed to load malware onto their computer.
David Braue | 12 Mar | Read more
T here is nothing new about arguments that information security should be recognised as a high-level concern – and handled at the highest levels of the organisation. However, according to the recent CSO-Dell Secureworks IT Security Strategy Survey 2016, Australian businesses are making great strides towards making this happen.
