Australians pessimistic that cybersecurity skills gap will be closed within a decade
But training providers, looking outside the industry for “a new breed of cybersecurity talent”, are doing their part to help
David Braue | 13 Dec | Read more
But training providers, looking outside the industry for “a new breed of cybersecurity talent”, are doing their part to help
David Braue | 13 Dec | Read more
In a climate of rising fraud, most consumers are still transacting online despite poor security habits
David Braue | 11 Dec | Read more
Just investing in tools isn’t enough to keep good staff engaged
David Braue | 11 Dec | Read more
And Microsoft is offering new tools help admins fix their own faults.
Reports suggested that China had become the biggest source of Black Friday weekend fraud, even as the Australian Federal Police led a multinational effort to take down a spyware tool that had thousands of paying customers.
David Braue | 09 Dec | Read more
Just a few short years ago, all a PC needed for protection was a basic antivirus program to guard against any malware that arrived via an e-mail attachment, embedded in a shareware application or piggy-backed on a floppy disk.
Frank J. Ohlhorst | 18 Aug | Read more
Quantum decryption means the data you encrypt today will be compromised within a decade.
We used 1 million records exposed as our floor in creating this list. Starting with a number that big says a lot about the state of data security.
Ryan Francis | 27 Mar | Read more
CSC opened the doors to its new security operations centre (SOC) in Macquarie Park, Sydney this week. The SOC is one of five that the vendor operates globally as part of a 24/7 strategy to identify cyber threats in real time.
Hamish Barwick | 03 Jun | Read more
CSO Trend Micro Workshop
Prime Minister Julia Gillard was on hand in Sydney this week to launch a new cyber education module called bCyberwise. Developed by Life Education and McAfee, the program is designed to teach primary school students about online dangers such as becoming `friends' with strangers and cyber bullying. The program will be rolled out to Australian schools from 4 February.
Hamish Barwick | 17 Jan | Read more
Perhaps it was an omen of what was to come when the city of San Francisco on New Year's Eve 2010 couldn't get a backup system running in its Emergency Operations Center because no one knew the password.
Ellen Messmer | 02 Dec | Read more
'Tis the season to begin ramping up online shopping activity, and for retailers that means doing all they can to ensure their websites are up, highly available and able to handle peak capacity. Looming in many IT managers' minds is the cautionary tale of Target, whose website crashed twice after it was inundated by an unprecedented number of online shoppers when the retailer began selling clothing and accessories from high-end Italian fashion company Missoni.
Esther Shein | 29 Nov | Read more
No company wants to be associated with a data breach, but if your systems are compromised the fallout can sometimes be more damaging than the act itself.
Matt Rodgers | 22 Sep | Read more
Stealthy, sometime long-term cyber-espionage attacks to steal sensitive proprietary information -- what some now call "advanced persistent threats" (APT) -- have become a top worry for businesses.
Ellen Messmer | 08 Aug | Read more
This is a real issue, and not just one for the well publicised attacks on major corporations such as Sony, Lockheed, Google, and Citi. It affects every business and organisation, large and small. More worrying still, it is now widely suggested that hackers and espionage organisations are moving away from directly attacking their target company, choosing instead to route their attack through suppliers to their target. Thus, even small and seemingly innocuous “third party” businesses who would not consider themselves as potential targets are now on the front line of this cyber war.
Malcolm Higgins | 13 Jul | Read more
The spooky season is still not over for Australian companies, as the destructive Emotet threat is back, and it is affecting unpatched systems.
James Ley, Ivanti | 09 Dec | Read more
Ensuring top-level enterprise security has never been more important for the financial services (FS) industry.
Monica Hovsepian, OpenText | 09 Dec | Read more
Tricking cyber-criminals into revealing their presence is becoming an increasingly popular way to safeguard systems and data from attack.
Modern terrorism and cyberwar are major threats to our society’s way of life.
Craig Ford | 30 Dec | Read more
You have a very secure environment, you have the latest firewalls which have been configured well, you have really good network segregation and you have the latest in endpoint detection and response platforms with a well-configured siem platform.
Craig Ford | 20 Dec | Read more