“Radical” change to cloud services is a security masterclass for University of Canberra
Backup is faster, easier in the cloud – but you still have to do your due diligence
David Braue | 03 Oct | Read more
Backup is faster, easier in the cloud – but you still have to do your due diligence
David Braue | 03 Oct | Read more
VMware has taken the wraps off a firewall it says protects enterprise applications and data inside data centers or clouds.
Michael Cooney | 11 Mar | Read more
Fast-growing DevSecOps innovator SecureStack may have been a “company of one” until a few months ago, but the firm’s founder credits the backing of Australia’s cybersecurity industry development body with fast-tracking it to an appearance at the RSA Conference 2019.
David Braue | 06 Mar | Read more
Growing business engagement with issues around cybersecurity risk means the CISO function should ideally be moved out of the IT organisation, a senior security policy advisor has argued as organisations increasingly adopt business-level controls on growing software-as-a-service (SaaS) adoption.
David Braue | 23 Jun | Read more
IT security organisations can boost adoption of bring your own device (BYOD) programs by delegating control over employee data privacy to business owners, a VMware security specialist has advised as the 18,000-employee company reviews lessons learned during its own successful BYOD program.
David Braue | 22 Jun | Read more
Integrating visibility and security controls directly into virtual machines is helping companies enforce security policies across cloud-based application architectures, a senior VMware security executive has shared as the company ramps up the latest volley in its salvo to bring security to the data centre.
David Braue | 22 Jun | Read more
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
Microsegmentation controls interactions between network, app components in ways firewalls can't
David Braue | 19 Aug | Read more
Many Australian IT leaders mistakenly believe they will see IT-security budgets increasing over the next two years but executives have other thoughts on the issue, according to recent research that found the misalignment of expectations is stronger in Australia than in other countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
David Braue | 15 Jul | Read more
VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger says we live in a “state of compromise” where what the business sees as critical is different to what CISOs see as important. When CEOs were asked what most needed to be protected from attacks, they answered reputation. CIOs and CISOs, on the other hand, pointed to regulated data as the most important thing to protect.
Anthony Caruana | 07 Mar | Read more
At the RSA Conference, VMware demonstrates the security features of its NSX network virtualization product.
Brandon Butler | 04 Mar | Read more
VMware released patches for serious vulnerabilities in several of its products that could lead to arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation on the host OS and denial of service.
Lucian Constantin | 10 Jul | Read more
VMware is hoping to convince CIOs to centralize single sign-on access to all kinds of apps with Identity Manager, which can run in the cloud or on-site and also offers application provisioning and a self-service catalog.
Mikael Ricknäs | 17 Jun | Read more
VMware has released security updates for several of its virtualization products in order to address critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to break out of virtual machines and execute rogue code on the host operating systems.
Lucian Constantin | 11 Jun | Read more
As if it wasn't enough that security staff were playing a continuous game of catch-up – investigating an average of 1.5 security breaches per week even as research reveals institutional investors don't believe company boards have the security threat under control – it turns out Australians' world-leading love of social media has made us world-leading targets for ransomware purveyors and malware criminals that are using extremely complex techniques against us.
David Braue | 20 Apr | Read more