Security Industry — News

The week in security: Pushing the encryption point; don't give up security fight despite onslaught

Nobody is sure just how yet, but it's clear that the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) model is going to have significant implications for the structure and delivery of security long into the future. Privacy is likely to be one significant concern, even as the first anniversary of Australia's revamped Privacy Act passed amidst assessments that it is promoting new levels of accountability.

David Braue | 04 May | Read more

Relevance, collaboration helping threat intelligence shape the IT security response

As the merciless onslaught of data-security attacks continues to claim success after success, organisations are increasingly warming to the promise of threat intelligence in helping prevent, catch, and deal with attacks much more effectively than in the past. Yet with its reliance on large volumes of security information, threat intelligence remains out of the reach of many organisations.

David Braue | 04 May | Read more

Cloud-hungry businesses need data centre security – even outside of the data centre

Controlling user access privileges has always been essential to enterprise security, but today's cloud and mobile-driven computing environments make that control hard to maintain. Thankfully, combining time-honoured remote access technologies with increasingly intelligent – and portable – business policies offers new promise for those struggling to extend internal security measures to outside IT services.

David Braue | 11 May | Read more