Whether you lean towards the left or right in matters of politics, you’d probably agree with the contention that government obsession with security and data control should make it a blameless role model after which we can all model our own security regimes.
David Braue | 23 Nov | Read more
Whether you love Apple or hate it, you may be in line to benefit as a crackdown on Mac OS X apps extends the company's iPhone and iPad application metaphor to desktop applications as well.
David Braue | 10 Nov | Read more
Whether you celebrated National Identity Fraud Awareness Week (NIFAW) with a large identity cake or just shrieked 'Who Are You?' and other identity-inspired songs with friends over a beer or four, the campaign has run its course for another year -– and reminded those who were listening that we're still living in a world of trusting, naïve fools.
David Braue | 02 Nov | Read more
Cyberbullying may be more of an operational issue in schools than the outside hacking that enterprises face, but opaque IPv4 network configurations are causing security issues for both groups as organisations struggle to enforce administrative policies by reliably matching IP addresses and user identities.
David Braue | 25 Oct | Read more
I'm sure more than a few CSOs hugged their teddy bears a little tighter the night they heard about the penetration of First State Super's (FSS's) information-security breach and the man who instigated it with the kind of "attack" a nine-year-old might try.
David Braue | 25 Oct | Read more
Hundreds of Australian companies have trialled or introduced new IPv6 technology internally but are keeping silent out of concern that they’ll be seen to be taking unnecessary risks with the security of their networks, the Australian organiser of World IPv6 Day has revealed.
David Braue | 25 Oct | Read more
The hard sell around cloud computing is in full swing, but many potential customers are finding it hard to evaluate the security profiles of potential providers and should take a broader view of their objectives and standards, an expert in the auditing of IT security infrastructures has warned.
David Braue | 21 Oct | Read more
Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecommunications providers may be plotting their moves to embrace next-generation IPv6 network protocols, but a massive base of legacy IPv4 equipment will complicate things for a long time to come, executives of both Telstra and NBN Co have warned.
David Braue | 21 Oct | Read more
New IPv6 protocols may allow telecommunications carriers to step away from the idiosyncrasies of Network Address Translation (NAT), but the need to provide legacy IPv4 and NAT support could see them locking customers into IPv4 'walled gardens' that threaten the open nature of the Internet.
David Braue | 21 Oct | Read more
Changes in security profiles and vulnerabilities, "truly awesome" failure rates and still-evolving administrative techniques mean companies are right to hold off on embracing IPv6 for now, a senior technologist has advised after airing the results of a detailed global study evaluating IPv6 preparedness.
David Braue | 20 Oct | Read more
Security managers must break down their walled-garden mentalities and integrate security deep into the heart of increasingly flexible, BYO computing-driven IT service management (ITSM) environments or risk data death by a thousand cuts, a systems and security consultant has warned.
David Braue | 18 Oct | Read more
I still remember that sunny day, late last century, when I and a handful of journos descended on the North Sydney offices of a small company called Security Dynamics, which had introduced what it said was a foolproof security method: a token that used a secret and encrypted algorithm to generate time-sensitive passcodes to enable two-factor authentication.
David Braue | 13 Oct | Read more
It's hardly the kind of thing any company wants attached to its name, but HTC's rapid acknowledgment of confessed "serious" security exploit, discovered and published this week by security researchers, may ultimately help deflect criticisms and will, regardless, serve as a valuable reminder to CSOs that mobile devices represent a new and still-evolving security threat within the enterprise.
David Braue | 07 Oct | Read more
Concerned that your employees are being a bit lax when it comes to looking after their laptops? Steal them yourself, one vendor has advised in the wake of yet another damning security report that suggests laptops and other equipment are literally walking out of Australian companies that are still operating at far below world's best practice when it comes to device security.
David Braue | 06 Oct | Read more
When something as seemingly esoteric as USB security can hit a mainstream cartoon like Dilbert, you know it’s a real issue. But it’s also one that has been poorly addressed by many companies, whose employees seem to be losing data through this largely unpoliced security hole faster than your Uncle Barry going through $2 coins at the local TAB.
David Braue | 05 Oct | Read more