Policing the data lake
Every organisation is facing a new set of security challenges as they amass data says Nuix's Jim Kent.
Paul Wallbank | 25 Aug | Read more
Identity & Access — Opinions
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
How to define cyber criminals’ effective patterns of attack machine learning
Research is in progress that will make it easier to find patterns of attack by cyber-criminals, and share results with the larger community.
Brett Williams | 27 Jul | Read more
How to avoid an expensive and disruptive ransomware attack
Since first appearing in the late 1980s, ransomware has evolved to become a multi-million dollar business.
Simon Howe | 19 Jul | Read more
When it comes to navigating the web, just what is meant by an online location can be hard to define.
The battle to block the Web has bogged down in the Federal Court where counsel representing Foxtel and Village Roadshow argued that the Court should adopt the quixotic reasoning presented and dump the almost 'impossible' task onto Internet Service Providers (ISP).
Mark Gregory | 19 Jul | Read more
Evaluating the true costs of a data breach
The costs of a data leak or data loss are rapidly accruing, with the total average cost per data breach within Australia now sitting at $AUD2.82 million, according to a 2015 study from IBM and Ponemon Institute.
Rick Ferguson | 10 Jun | Read more
Where Is Identity Management Heading?
Five years ago Mozilla launched an identity management system, Persona (originally called BrowserID).
V. Balasubramanian | 30 May | Read more
Government Launches New Cyber Strategy to Strengthen Australian Businesses Cyber Defences
Australian companies are seriously lagging behind their US and UK counterparts when it comes to cyber security. According to Deloitte, Australian companies could risk becoming “low-hanging fruit” for cyber criminals due to a lack of education and an unwillingness to properly deal with cyber threats.
Liam Rowland | 27 Apr | Read more
Is Your Enterprise Mobility Strategy Good?
There are numerous benefits to creating a mobile workforce, including improved information sharing, increased productivity and greater work flexibility. But this has left many enterprises having to manage the need to balance connecting more devices, apps and data to enable business productivity while at the same time tightly handling security and controlling cost.
Securing the enterprise in a brave new digital world
The security threat landscape has changed dramatically in ways unfathomable from just a few years ago. In today’s digital world where applications range in the millions, organizations need to be aware of the fact that enterprise infrastructure is not the only vulnerable spot for hackers.
Martyn Young | 27 Apr | Read more
Cyberwar Incident Response at the Speed of Thought
In a combat situation, our soldiers wear and carry different types and amounts of equipment, compared to when they are on normal duties. In some high risk situations they’re expected to carry around 60 kilograms worth of kit, including their gun, ammunition, armour, helmet and boots.
The Future of Multi-factor authentication
Most organisations have moved to two factor authentication for their online banking transactions, but in recent events all the big banks were attacked despite this already being in place.
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.
How sandboxing can help in the fight against cybercrime
Barely a day goes by without new reports of organisations falling victim to cyber-attacks. Data breaches, network outages and system disruptions have become an unfortunate reality of the modern digital world.
David De Laine | 31 Mar | Read more
Reminiscing about identity and access management (IAM)
Graham Williamson is Senior Analyst at KuppingerCole and covers the areas of Identity-as-a-Service, Dynamic Authorisation Control and Privacy. He has consulted in the Identity Management sector for 15 years and is the author of the book “Identity Management: A Primer”. Graham holds a bachelor of Applied Science degree from the University of Toronto and an MBA degree from Bond University. He has practical experience in the identity management and access control industry having completed assignments in the academic, government and large corporate industry sectors across three continents.
Graham Williamson | 30 Mar | Read more
Securing the Identity of Things (IDoT) for the Internet of Things
In its recent report, The Identity of Things (IDoT) for the Internet of Things, Gartner lays out how it believes the Internet of Things (IoT), or what is often now referred to as the Internet of Everything (IoE), cannot and will not prosper unless organisations knuckle down and come to grips with how to manage multiple identities. The report then goes on to detail how today’s identity and access management technologies cannot provide the scale or manage the complexity that IoT brings to these organisations, further complicating the problem.
Allan Foster | 10 Jul | Read more
Securing digital identities for the cloud era
Though it may not be widely recognised amidst all the noise around technology trends like cloud computing, mobile, and the Internet of Things (IoT), identity is a fundamental requirement to future digital growth. Without a scalable and repeatable identity strategy, businesses and organisations will not be able to properly take advantage of mobile, cloud, or IoT. A proper identity strategy allows them to identify and engage with their customers in a meaningful way — whether it be through a laptop, mobile phone, tablet, connected car, healthcare wearable, connected home device, or the next great connected innovation.
Sumal Karunanayake | 10 Jul | Read more
The Next Generation of Assessing Information Risk
Digital information is the heart of today’s organisations. It’s growing exponentially, and its effective use and management is directly linked to the continued success of the modern enterprise. However, digital technologies and global interconnection have introduced a significant number of new risks and greatly amplified existing ones. There are now many significant, high-profile examples of information risks being realised, and their impacts continue to grow. Organisations simply must improve their management of information risk.
Steve Durbin | 30 Mar | Read more
The Active International Response to Cyber Crime
The international cyber-security versus cyber-crime battle is gathering pace and what we’re seeing is the formation of international alliances to fight this rising scourge. However, the online world is unlike any other, it will take more than a defensive mindset to win this battle.
Mark Gregory | 26 Mar | Read more
When It Comes to Threat Detection and Incident Response, Context Matters
In an environment of unrelenting attacks, network packet capture and security analytics are essential for discovering the attack while it is in progress and to provide the intelligence to minimise the damage done as well as to prevent future attacks.
Scott Crane | 24 Mar | Read more