Data analytics platforms may be proving themselves capable of drawing out previously unseen patterns around user behaviour, but organisations wanting to use them for security analytics need to position log data in the broader context of organisational norms, the head of a global analytics innovator has advised.
David Braue | 28 Jul | Read more
Continuous evaluation of user behaviour against baseline metrics will power a new approach to authentication that lies at the heart of a joint project between Victoria's RMIT University and software giant CA Technologies that was this week ramped up with the awarding of Australian Research Council (ARC) funding.
David Braue | 27 Jul | Read more
Security researchers have blown the whistle on an app that should arguably never have been published for Google’s one-billion-plus Android users on Google Play.
Public confidence in government security is so low that half of Australians believe their personal data will be compromised in the next year due to poor security by a government agency, according to a new survey that also found even more believe personal data held by telcos will be compromised.
David Braue | 03 Jul | Read more
Although there was controversy around government plans to increase biometric information-gathering a Australian entry ports, others felt that Australian government agencies were showing “inspiring” traction in formalising their identity-management infrastructures, while UK and US government agencies were taking off on a slightly different tack after being said to have attacked security software that they felt was thwarting their work in intelligence gathering.
David Braue | 29 Jun | Read more
ISO/IEC 27001:2013 specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an information security management system within the context of the organisation. It was recently updated and Dr. Angelika Plate formerly of the German Information Security Agency and now an independent consultant, walked through the changes at AusCERT 20
Anthony Caruana | 04 Jun | Read more
Justin Clacherty is on the leadership team of Future Wise Australia, a “fiercely non-partisan organisation focused on policy advocacy and research in technology, health, and education.
Anthony Caruana | 04 Jun | Read more
Google has released research that illustrates the wisdom of its recent decision to drop security questions as a fallback option for forgotten passwords.
A strengthened focus on channel partners and the capitalisation of recent technology acquisitions will fuel a redoubled assault on the Asia-Pacific endpoint security market as Webroot's newly appointed APAC regional managing director, Robbie Upcroft, settles into his new role as steward of an ever-harder battle against the growing tide of malware actors.
David Braue | 06 May | Read more
Many companies are coming to see security as a form of damage control rather than prevention – an implicit admission that cybercriminals have outflanked and outclassed them – but one security innovator is still working hard to convince customers not to give up on the idea that attacks can still be prevented.
David Braue | 29 Apr | Read more
Hackers have compromised a number of WordPress blogs to point visitors to a Pirate Bay clone that is serving up an exploit kit loaded with banking malware.
The volume of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks grew more than 20 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014 after previously levelling off, but the locus of global security attacks continued to move away from the Asia-Pacific region, new figures from content distribution giant Akamai have revealed.
David Braue | 26 Mar | Read more
Companies in Australia and New Zealand are proving to be the world's most susceptible to the latest version of CryptoWall, security vendor Trend Micro has warned as analysis of the new ransomware strain found that victims now face having their data stolen as well as their systems locked.
David Braue | 25 Mar | Read more
Government requests for Facebook continued to grow in the second half of 2014, the company's latest transparency report has confirmed. And, speaking of transparency, some vendors were worried by findings by Verizon that 80 percent of PCI DSS-compliant firms fail to stay compliant in the year after their certifications – leading some to push the PCI Council to accept software-based encryption]] as well as the current hardware-based encryption it requires.
David Braue | 23 Mar | Read more
New team's mission is to deliver affordable and easy-to-use IT solutions for businesses to discover, manage and secure their networks
Chris Bowes | 23 Mar | Read more
Privacy commissioner Timothy Pilgrim is “pleased” with the rate at which Australian businesses have embraced the overhauled Privacy Act 1988 in the year since significant changes to the legislation were introduced.
David Braue | 13 Mar | Read more
BlackBerry has confirmed BlackBerry OS 10, BES 12 and 10 and other products are affected by the FREAK flaw, but it has no patch.
For all the talk about the importance of new security technologies, the importance of staff buying into corporate security strategies is often underestimated. In every case, the predictable result is the same: a strong technological barrier whose effectiveness is immediately compromised once a legitimate user, with legitimate access to internal resources, clicks on a phishing email designed to load malware onto their computer.
David Braue | 12 Mar | Read more
The rate of new software vulnerabilities jumped dramatically between 2014 and 2013, with 19 new vulnerabilities disclosed every day last year and an upwards trend suggesting things could only get worse this year.
David Braue | 27 Feb | Read more
Google has taken the wraps off Android for Work, the BYOD enterprise program it’s been brewing with mobile device management (MDM) partners for months and borrows from Samsung’s container technology KNOX.