Social Networking Security — Opinions

​Cybersecurity Trends to Watch in 2017

The jury has not yet been assembled to assess the fallout from the 2016 US Presidential email hacking scandal but the implications have certainly sent shock waves rippling throughout the world. Certainly the notion that anything is possible rings true.

Tim Fisher | 26 Jan | Read more

​Security in 2020 – Data Security is Key

Gone are the days when data was confined to the data centre and we could put a virtual fence around it and protect it. Now data is everyone with multiple copies of it. This causes a massive headache for CISOs who are tasked with protecting this data from falling into the wrong hands. The question then arises, with data literally everywhere, how do we achieve this?

Ashwin Pal | 02 Aug | Read more

Role-based Access Control: Access, security, info tracking

Controlling access to sensitive data is of utmost concern for the world’s most complex business and network environments. The amount of security-related data stored across a network is immense for many organizations, and relating all this data to the user’s account information in Active Directory can be tricky and time consuming.

Dean Wiech | 06 Apr | Read more

Do you have an Insider Threat Program?

Insider threats are increasingly on our radar, we saw a recent example in Australia with an Bluescope Steel employee taking out company documents. Also two scientists at Glaxo Smith Kline research scientists in another well publicised incident- Yu Xue and Lucy Xi, were charged with stealing trade secrets.

David Gee | 01 Apr | Read more

Securing digital identities into the future

Gartner* believes that by 2020, 60% of organisations will use active social identity proofing and let consumers bring in social identities to access risk-appropriate applications. It also predicts that by 2020 new biometric methods will displace passwords and fingerprints for access to endpoint devices across 80% of the market.

Sumal Karunanayake | 31 Aug | Read more