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Australian businesses should use ASD Essential Eight as a roadmap for proactive security

Any company operating a multi-storey office building would develop painstaking fire escape plans, and any hospital would develop backup plans detailing how it could operate in the event of a power failure. So, if responsible businesses are actively addressing these risks, why are so many companies still failing to lay down detailed plans for dealing with a cybersecurity incident?

David Braue | 08 Jun | Read more
This is not the end for endpoint protection

It is easy to dismiss endpoint protection as a relic of an older time when information security only consisted of anti-virus solutions and perhaps a firewall, but as the threat landscape has changed, so too has endpoint protection. It has a troubled history, but this it not at all the end of endpoint protection today.

Michael Lee | 03 Feb | Read more
DSD: Four mitigation strategies prevent 85% of intrusions

Research by Australia's Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) reinforces what information security specialists have been saying forever. Most intrusions could be prevented by paying attention to the basics.

Stilgherrian | 23 Jul | Read more