Educating Children about online risks: Don’t believe everything you see
It’s scary how little parents know about what their children do online.
Craig Ford | 24 Oct | Read more
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Deep fake is the golden egg for social engineering attacks
Social engineering attacks are one of the most used attack vectors that customers face in today's chaotic and often very challenging technology landscape.
Craig Ford | 24 Oct | Read more
Are your crown jewels exposed?
What’s your most critical business data? And do you really know where it all is and whether the controls and protection you have in place are adequate?
Tan Huynh, Detexian | 22 Oct | Read more
The integration of IT and OT is a career-defining challenge
The IoT genie is out of the bottle. With 5G access on the horizon for Australians, its last remaining hurdle to becoming a ubiquitous technology for businesses is being overcome.
Rob Van Es, Illumio | 22 Oct | Read more
The trust trade: The business case for an ethical CISO
Another quarter, another jump in the number of data breaches in Australia.
Joan Pepin, Auth0 | 21 Oct | Read more
Making intrinsic security an enterprise reality
Despite enterprises spending more and more on cybersecurity, the frequency and impact of data breaches and cyber-attacks continues to grow.
Brad Engstrom, VMware | 21 Oct | Read more
Protect against cybercrime by building to be hacked
There’s a perfect cyber security storm happening. The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) recorded more than 13,500 reports of cyber attacks on Australian businesses and consumers in the three months from July to September this year.
Luke McGoldrick | 21 Oct | Read more
The next phase of Zero Trust: Australian and New Zealand organisations pivoting to the implementation phase
Zero Trust assumes that any person or device with access to an organisation’s data is a potential threat to the enterprise and thus centres on the concept of “don’t trust anything”.
Steve Hunter | 14 Oct | Read more
The One Thing You Can't Outsource: Risk
Cloud continues to make strides in Australia, with the public cloud services market expected to reach $10.3 billion by 2022.
David Warburton | 14 Oct | Read more
Cybercon 2019 – I am not sure where to start
Wow, what a crazy couple of days it was, Cybercon was massive.
Craig Ford | 11 Oct | Read more
Key elements of Patching to consider for Healthcare IT CISOs
Data breaches that affect businesses of all sizes are now more common than ever, and unsurprisingly this includes Australia.
Andrew Souter | 10 Oct | Read more
All quiet on the cybersecurity front? Why complacency is as dangerous as a team of hackers.
Do you feel confident in your cybersecurity efforts? After all, you’ve likely spent a bit of budget—sometimes quite a bit—on protecting your enterprise.
Why a ‘zero trust’ security strategy is the future for your business
The traditional approach to IT security has always been about building walls.
Richard Bird, Ping Identity | 08 Oct | Read more
5 ways to defang the “insider threat” of cybersecurity
Sometimes, the greatest threats come from within.
Thomas LaRock | 08 Oct | Read more
The Human Factor of Cyber Security
The recent successful cyber-attacks against Victorian regional hospitals highlights a growing concern in cyber security and technology circles.
Shannon Sedgwick | 08 Oct | Read more
Why machine learning techniques are key to securing data in the cloud
With organisations moving escalating volumes of data to the cloud, cyber security strategies need to be augmented with next-generation technologies that can provide increased levels of automation and boost threat-protection capabilities.
David Shephard | 30 Sep | Read more
My cybersecurity book journey – Self-reflection and lessons learned
As many of you would already be aware I have recently published a book “A Hacker, I Am" about all things cybersecurity.
Craig Ford | 30 Sep | Read more
Leveraging cloud, culture, confidence and talent to drive organisational success
It is no secret that Australia is one of the fastest growing markets in cloud adoption.
Anthony Spiteri, Senior Technologist at Veeam Software | 27 Sep | Read more
Are skills shortages the cloud’s biggest security threat?
Cloud adoption in Australia could soon hit a major speed-bump: skills shortages in cloud security.
Corne Mare, Director of Security Solutions, Fortinet Australia | 27 Sep | Read more
Five ways to create a secure modern workplace
In Australia, the Notifiable Data Breach scheme showed revealed that in the 12 months to May 2019 there were nearly 1,000 data breaches of which two-thirds were malicious and 32 percent were caused by human error. This statistic is proof that improving security systems in the modern workplace should be a priority.
Chris Stradling, Avanade Australia | 25 Sep | Read more