Exchange admins hoping to receive Microsoft’s quarterly update for the email platform will have to wait weeks more due issues caused by a security fix that was scheduled to be released today.
As federal Parliament considers data-retention legislation introduced this week, a survey of Australian businesses has found that despite majority support for the move, businesses are concerned that slack controls will compromise the security of, and control over use of, that information.
David Braue | 30 Oct | Read more
Security is big business these days. With our old approach of blocking everyone at the border failing - mainly because no-one knows where the border is anymore - a risk-based approach is driving the way businesses think about their information and systems security.
Anthony Caruana | 22 Oct | Read more
The role of government in cybersecurity defences continues to morph, but there were interesting revelations that GCHQ employs 120 dyslexic and dyspraxic analysts to help in its fight against terrorism, while British PM David Cameron appointed a special envoy in charge of intelligence and law-enforcement data sharing. Interestingly, however, even as scrutiny of data sharing increases, Yahoo! reported that government requests for data had dropped overall, while one Australian cybersecurity expert said businesses and governments were increasingly seeking a collaborative approach to bolster overall cybersecurity profiles.
David Braue | 02 Oct | Read more
Security professionals are rapidly recognising the importance of formal information and technology risk frameworks, security body ISACA has reported in the wake of the launch of a new online version of the COBIT 5 IT governance platform.
David Braue | 24 Sep | Read more
Bruce Hafaele is the Chief Architect at Healthdirect Australia where he is responsible for technology strategy, architecture, software delivery and operations.
Anthony Caruana | 04 Sep | Read more
It's that time of year again: The wonderful, terrifying week when hackers and security gurus descend upon Las Vegas to show off their skills and unleash presentation after presentation full of scary-sounding exploits. This year is no different. Over the previous week, we've heard tales of planes brought down by rogue code, snoops spying on your security cameras, and secretive, undetectable code that can turn any USB drive into an unstoppable malware vessel.
Brad Chacos | 22 Aug | Read more
Fully 60 per cent of new Australian business by IT-management company Kaseya has come from cloud-related business, the company's local head has revealed as it announced the acquisition of Canadian identity and access management (IAM) vendor Scorpion Software.
David Braue | 14 Aug | Read more
Australians may be getting smarter about banking scams after new figures from Trend Micro saw the country fall out of list of the top 10 countries most affected by banking malware.
David Braue | 13 Aug | Read more
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has been using Agile methodologies for around seven years, but has more recently widened its adoption as part of a broader transformation within the organisation, assistant statistician and head of technology engagement and design Lane Masterton told an audience at the Technology in Government 2014 Summit last week.
Stephen Withers | 13 Aug | Read more
When you’re looking for a needle in a haystack, it helps if you can reduce the amount of hay you sort through.
Stephen Withers | 07 Aug | Read more
PayPal caused a storm on Tuesday after freezing, albeit temporarily, the crowd-funding account of anti-government snooping email startup, ProtonMail — but PayPal says it was just a technical problem.
Australians are happy to provide biometric identification when boarding aircraft but are far less accepting of allowing retailers to use biometrics to sell them products, the 2014 Unisys Security Index has shown.
David Braue | 27 May | Read more
Specialist recruitment giant Peoplebank is seeing significant time savings after implementing a digital signature system that has significantly improved its everyday work processes.
David Braue | 02 Apr | Read more
Security system design and user education could benefit from neuralimaging that uses brain scans to determine the way personality types may react to threats, new research shows.
Paraphrasing the song made famous in the 1960s by The Troggs and wonderfully updated by Bill Nighy in "Love Actually" Big Data is really all around us. We are making more and more data about ourselves available to a broader audience. But what if that data is stolen? Is it useful to anyone?
Anthony Caruana | 07 Mar | Read more
Security threats will become so bad this year that organisations will be required to be know more about their IT and what it does, according to Tenable Network Security.
Patrick Budmar | 28 Jan | Read more
No CSO would be unaware of users' resistance to complex and often arbitrary password-management schemes, but one password-management vendor believes the battle is not yet lost as the slowly-expanding profile of password-management tools gives enterprises large and small the ability to help employees manage a swag of complex online passwords.
David Braue | 07 Jan | Read more
2013 has certainly been a watershed year for information security. But to understand how things might subsequently unfold in 2014, it's worth remembering that each and every revelation of 2013 will be processed and acted upon by humans. Humans with their unchanging human nature, and organisations created by us humans, with their similarly unchanging nature.
Stilgherrian | 06 Jan | Read more
Increased use of biometric security and integrated password managers will become essential as users face increasing pressure from spear phishers and other identity thieves who are increasingly running “long game” identity scams, the ANZ VP of Verizon Business has warned.
David Braue | 22 Oct | Read more