More than half of Australian companies believe they have very mature cybersecurity protections even though most are ignoring clear best-practice guidelines from the Australian Signals Directorate, according to a new end-user survey that also found just 46 percent of companies run staff security training more than once per year.
David Braue | 26 Sep | Read more
Medium-sized businesses face a surging threat from opportunistic cybercriminals who are changing their strategies as large enterprises become more complex to penetrate, a security-strategy director has warned as new figures correlate declines in spam email with a resurgence in time-honoured document-based macro malware.
David Braue | 18 May | Read more
The government should prepare Australia for the next decade in cybersecurity by implementing a multi-pronged national cyber security strategy that combines multi-sector information sharing, development of state-based cybersecurity training hubs and other initiatives to bolster our national protective capabilities, networking giant Cisco Systems has argued in a formal response to the first-ever Australian Government Cyber Security Review.
David Braue | 04 Aug | Read more
Regardless of your industry, the size of your organization, or the type of business you have, insider threat is a menacing reality. In most organizations, this threat has been undervalued, underestimated and underfunded. It's the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about because it means acknowledging that one of your own employees might take you for a ride. And, it requires taking several challenging and, to some, uncomfortable steps to combat.
Jason Clark, James Robinson | 03 Jul | Read more
Our coverage of the annual Global Information Security Survey conducted by CSO and CIO magazines in partnership with PwC has sparked some interesting discussions about <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/690854/are-you-an-it-security-%20leader-really-">what it takes to be a security leader</a>. Specifically, the discussion is about how organizations can move <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/691069/laggard-to-leader-what-it-takes-to-get-there">from being a security laggard to something better</a>. As part of those discussions, we spoke with Andy Ellis, chief security officer at Akamai Technologies. Ellis is responsible for overseeing the security architecture and compliance of the company's globally distributed network and sets the strategic direction of its security.
George V. Hulme | 02 Nov | Read more
It sure feels like the bad guys are winning.
Taylor Armerding | 04 Sep | Read more