The rapidly rising tide of cybersecurity attacks has naturally driven security and IT managers to strengthen their perimeters and bolster their defences. But without paying similar attention to what’s happening on their internal networks, they are leaving massive blind spots that could potentially produce catastrophic results.
David Braue | 13 Dec | Read more
Continuous evaluation of user behaviour against baseline metrics will power a new approach to authentication that lies at the heart of a joint project between Victoria's RMIT University and software giant CA Technologies that was this week ramped up with the awarding of Australian Research Council (ARC) funding.
David Braue | 27 Jul | Read more
Australians lost $136,000 to malware in June alone and have so far lost $45 million to scammers this year, new figures from the ACCC revealed even as attackers hit the Telegram messaging app in Australia and APAC areas, knocking the service offline. No wonder Australian IT managers feel besieged by attackers – and that BYOD users worry that their employers can't keep private data safe.
David Braue | 21 Jul | Read more
Nearly half of Australian IT managers believe their organisations are targeted for a security breach every week – with one in eight believing they had been attacked in the past 60 seconds – according to a customer survey conducted at the recent AusCERT conference on the Gold Coast.
David Braue | 15 Jul | Read more
Increasing use of big-data techniques is contributing to a stronger overall response to the expanding threat profile modern organisations face, the new regional head of security vendor WatchGuard Technologies has observed.
David Braue | 15 Sep | Read more
Dense computing is becoming a common choice for IT managers who are struggling with sprawl and inefficiency in the data centre. This whitepaper looks at the basics of dense computing, the benefits of dense computing architecture and how to choose the right platform.