During AISA's 2017 annual conference, Atlassian's Head of Security Daniel Grzelak and his colleague, System Engineer Matthew Hart, looked into the question of ethical hackers and using bug bounties to find the gaps in security posture.
Anthony Caruana | 12 Oct | Read more
At this year's AISA Annual Conference, a panel with Australia Post's CISO Kristin Lyons , Professor Jill Slay from the Australian Computer Society, Marco Figueroa the CISO from the NSW Department of Finance, Services and Innovation, and Tracy Hughes from Q1 discussed the issue of the skills shortage facing the cybersecurity industry.
Anthony Caruana | 12 Oct | Read more
Having made the switch from government to the private sector, ANZ's CISO Lynwen Connick was one of the architects of the national cybersecurity strategy and is now a user of that strategy.
Anthony Caruana | 12 Oct | Read more
Speaking at Melbourne’s leg of the global ZertoCON roadshow - along with a number of key partners including Pronto, NetApp, Macquarie Cloud Services and Zettagrid - Zerto’s president Paul Zeiter spoke to how the business is moving away from traditional disaster recovery or business continuity, to a greater focus on resilience.
Anthony Caruana | 08 Aug | Read more
Pronto Software is an Australian ERP software developer and vendor. The original company has been in the software business for over 40 years.
Anthony Caruana | 02 Aug | Read more
The shortest day of the year in the southern hemisphere marked IDG’s first ever Security Day.
Anthony Caruana | 22 Jun | Read more
Disclosure has a couple of very interesting perspectives according to Troy Hunt, during a very well attended presentation given at AusCERT 2017. On one hand, there are threat researchers like Hunt who disclose vulnerabilities. On the other are organisations receiving reports about problems.
Anthony Caruana | 16 Jun | Read more
Cisco's Kate Pearce presented at this year's AusCERT conference on of embracing diversity in the security industry and not living and working in an infosec echo chamber. Her focus was on the small differences we can bring in and the big difference they can make.
Anthony Caruana | 16 Jun | Read more
Mimecast’s Garrett O’Hara spoke at this year’s AusCERT conference on the issue of cyber resilience and how companies, large and small, are being impacted and defrauded through email-born attacks.
Anthony Caruana | 14 Jun | Read more
You'd think, judging by much of the coverage you see in cybersecurity magazines and articles that we are in an ever-escalating arms race where the only course of action we have against threat actors is to get bigger, faster and more expensive technology. But that's like saying the only way to protect your home from burglars or a fire is alarm systems and bars on the windows.
Anthony Caruana | 14 Jun | Read more
Anyone who has had a leadership role in IT knows that when discussions about disaster recovery and business continuity start, your work life is about to become either a lot more interesting or a lot more complex. The trouble is, when other business functions think about incidents that could impact business operations, they invariably draw their attention towards the technology they rely on.
Anthony Caruana | 13 Jun | Read more
Chris Coryea comes from Leidos – a major MSSP in the United States which is comprised of about 33000 employees that come from the original Leidos MSSP business and Lockheed Martin's cyber security team. That brought together the MSSP capability with advanced analytics and Lockheed Martin's famed Cyber Security Kill Chain approach.
Anthony Caruana | 13 Jun | Read more
A panel discussion at the recent Emerging Cyber Threats Summit, held in Sydney, looked at cybersecurity and the future of the digital economy. With more and more commerce and collaboration taking place digitally, there are great rewards but new risks that need to be considered.
Anthony Caruana | 13 Jun | Read more
Working alongside the Prime Minister’s special adviser for all things cyber gives Jacob Boyle a unique perspective on the government’s role in securing the country – not just with all the services offered by government but also in working with businesses and the security industry.
Anthony Caruana | 13 Jun | Read more
This is what Dr Seuss said and it’s something former Telstra CISO discussed during his opening keynote address at the Emerging Cyber Threats summit held in Sydney on 7 and 8 June 2017.
Anthony Caruana | 13 Jun | Read more