Security is big business these days. With our old approach of blocking everyone at the border failing - mainly because no-one knows where the border is anymore - a risk-based approach is driving the way businesses think about their information and systems security.
Anthony Caruana | 22 Oct | Read more
Peter Allor is the Lead Security Strategist in IBM's Critical Infrastructure Group. He works at the forefront of information security, working with researchers to look at events, as they happen, to learn about new techniques that are being adopted by attackers from a protection perspective and how to deal with those in across distributed computing in the cloud. But he is on the board of directors of FIRST - the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams and ICASI - the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet.
Anthony Caruana | 16 Oct | Read more
Microsoft's Azure platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering to Australian standards has taken a big step forward in the local market with the announcement that an audit of the company's Australian facilities has confirmed they meet Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) security standards for the transmission of government information.
David Braue | 07 Oct | Read more
Australia earned the dubious honour of being the country most targeted by phishers – and that's saying something given that it happened in a climate where the overall level of data breaches is continuing to rise. Even malvertising authors were upping their game, digitally signing new samples in an effort to bypass detection by antivirus scanners.
David Braue | 07 Oct | Read more
“Severely understaffed” corporate IT security organisations need to concede that they can't do everything and undertake a realistic assessment of their capabilities before building partnerships with the companies that can, the global head of security operations with Verizon has warned.
David Braue | 23 Dec | Read more
The widely used ISO/IEC 27001 information-security standard has gotten an overhaul, with standards management and training organisation BSI Group Australia and New Zealand publishing revised versions of the international standard.
David Braue | 16 Oct | Read more
Cybersecurity experts on Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee against racing to legislation that would establish an overly burdensome regulatory framework for safeguarding digital systems against attacks, instead urging a more limited approach that would clear away legal impediments such as the prohibitions against sharing critical threat information.
Kenneth Corbin | 10 Feb | Read more
A push by European authorities to strengthen the European Union's cybersecurity watchdog has been given a green light by parliamentarians.
Jennifer Baker | 09 Feb | Read more
A convicted murderer has been granted a retrial after a stenographer's backup record of his trial was apparently destroyed by a malware infection.
John E Dunn | 05 Jan | Read more
Cybercrime is now the third-most prevalent economic crime in New Zealand, according to the 2011 PwC Global Economic Crime Survey.
Randal Jackson | 01 Dec | Read more
The European Union's Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding has said that data-protection authorities in the EU must have greater powers to enforce privacy rules across the 27 member states.
Sophie Curtis | 30 Nov | Read more
A Hungarian citizen has pleaded guilty to stealing confidential information from the computers of Marriott International, and threatening to reveal the information if the hotel chain did not offer him a job maintaining the company's computers, the Department of Justice said on Wednesday.
John Ribeiro | 24 Nov | Read more
After jumping through countless hoops to get the required set of security clearances and approval by the US Embassy to photograph the President’s visit CSO can see why these steps were justified. Our photojournalist Neerav Bhatt was less than 5 metres away from the world’s most heavily secured individual - the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama.
Neerav Bhatt | 18 Nov | Read more
Welcome to the Security All-Stars! Here we have assembled our list of top players in information security who year after year demonstrate the specialized skills that make them worth listening to.
Ellen Messmer | 02 Nov | Read more
China was slammed on several fronts in a barrage of articles published today in the U.S. media that touched on <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> concerns related to the U.S. and Iran, plus a crackdown on Internet usage said to be unfolding within China.
Ellen Messmer | 28 Oct | Read more
Iran has threatened cyber-retaliation against its three most-cited enemies, the US, the UK and Israel, according to Iranian news agency, <a href="http://abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=268507">Ahlul Bayt</a>.
John E Dunn | 04 Oct | Read more
Despite growing concern about China’s cyber-warfare capabilities, Australia and other Western nations have little to worry about when it comes to their national security.
Tim Lohman | 31 Oct | Read more
Asian enterprises are revising their information security strategies, according to a newly released broad-based IT security survey by Fortinet.
Anuradha Shukla | 29 Sep | Read more
Russia has for the first time laid the blame for the Stuxnet worm at the door of the US and Israel, describing it as "the only proven case of actual cyber-warfare."
John E Dunn | 28 Sep | Read more
Romania has long been considered a hotbed for cybercriminal activity, but in recent years law enforcement authorities have made significant efforts to crack down on online fraud gangs that steal millions every year from victims worldwide.
Lucian Constantin | 27 Sep | Read more