CSO Dinner: Future-proof your security ecosystem to protect against quantum computing powered breaches
Quantum decryption means the data you encrypt today will be compromised within a decade.
Quantum decryption means the data you encrypt today will be compromised within a decade.
As users what we want is to share more and have more privacy. It is through this prisoner dilemma that over this weekend Digi.me, ID Exchange and Alibaba Cloud joined forces to bring the power of personal data and private sharing to communities in regional NSW by delivering the digi.spark hackathon hosted at UTS as part of New South Wales Spark Festival.
Abigail Swabey | 28 Oct | Read more
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
There are ways for privacy-obsessed users to leave as little a trace as possible when venturing into cyberspace.
Bob Violino | 27 Jan | Read more
It's the centenary of the commencement of World War One. Back then, there were borders to protect. The soldiers knew who they were fighting and there were very few incursions where one side crossed a border undetected. Today's battles are different. The bad guys are stealing the good guys’ passwords and identities to get access to whatever they want. And they often wait weeks or even months before revealing their true objectives.
Abigail Swabey | 22 Oct | Read more
CSO & Enex Testlab join forces to deliver a first class IT Security event in Sydney's Four Seasons Hotel.
Abigail Swabey | 24 Sep | 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
What a time to be in the IT industry - right now technology is changing almost every aspect of our lives, and as IT professional we have front row tickets! The decisions we make today will be felt for years to come by the organisations we work for, their owners, their customers, and their partners. (Sanjay Mehta)
Presentation by Russell Clarke and Mark Jones - Directors of RMSEC.
Russell Clarke and Mark Jones | 31 Jan | Read more
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
Canberra's EVOLVE.Cloud hit the streets with topline speakers
The 11th annual information security conference, AusCERT, kicked off on the sunny Gold Coast this week with exhibitors and delegates gathering for three days of talks and networking. This year's theme, Security on the Move, was interpreted in different ways with one vendor arriving in a tank.
Hamish Barwick | 16 May | Read more
Evolve.Cloud event hosted by Trend Micro including thought leaders from , VMware, Cloud Security Alliance, Government Leaders and Cloud Independent Rob Livingstone at The Sheraton on the Park.
Social engineers, or "human hackers", have been duping victims from the very beginning of human existence. Here are nine infamous con artists who made history with their scams and schemes.
Joan Goodchild | 20 Feb | Read more
These days barely a day goes by where there isn’t some sort of network security breach or hack or malfunction of some sort. This year too we had the rise of groups such as Anonymous and Lulz that sought out attention for their activities. Here we take a look at the year in pictures of some of the key security problems that grabbed our attention.
Michael Cooney | 08 Dec | Read more
Hackers, Matrix, Swordfish, Sneakers, Cypher - what's your favourite?
Abigail Swabey | 24 Nov | Read more
- Amazon, Apple and Google know more about you than your doctor or lawyer - and Commbank is jealous as hell. - Don’t trust an organisation that doesn’t have a face - because then you can’t punch it in when they screw up, said Marcus Ranum. - 78 percent of the world’s population doesn’t have access to a computer or the internet and therefore avoid all IT security problems.
Zennith Geisler | 11 Nov | Read more
11 tips for protecting your wireless networks
Eric Geier | 08 Nov | Read more
Websense 'Security Pros and Cons' survey of 1,000 IT managers confirms that data breaches are widespread. Here's a look at how organizations are responding.
Ellen Messmer | 21 Oct | Read more