Security Leader: Nick Lennon
"With the volume of threats increasing so substantially and approaches changing so rapidly, perhaps the biggest risk is that the event that will happen in 12 months’ time isn’t even on our radar yet."
"With the volume of threats increasing so substantially and approaches changing so rapidly, perhaps the biggest risk is that the event that will happen in 12 months’ time isn’t even on our radar yet."
With so much change all the time, how can executives best prepare their businesses to meet the security challenges of the coming years? CSO Australia, in conjunction with Mimecast, explored this question in an interactive Webinar that looks at how the threat landscape has evolved – and what we can expect in 2019 and beyond.
If you’re struggling with the challenges of building an effective ‘human firewall’, join CSO Australia, Computerworld and Mimecast for a one-hour webinar.
Cyber resilience will be particularly important as Australian organisations face increased pressure to quickly detect, respond to, and manage the repercussions of breaches in the wake of 2018’s Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme.
Malware is easy to make and social engineering makes it easy to distribute. Can you stop it?
Give this list to your employees, then go phish yourself
Steve Morgan | 19 Jul | Read more
And, because of the magic of time differences and the international date line Australia was the first IDG Security Day event running. As it's the sumer solstice in the Northern hemisphere, it's also the longest day so it makes sense to fill it with as much infosec goodness as we possibly can.
Abigail Swabey | 23 Jun | Read more
The shortest day of the year in the southern hemisphere marked IDG’s first ever Security Day.
Anthony Caruana | 22 Jun | Read more
Mimecast’s Garrett O’Hara spoke at this year’s AusCERT conference on the issue of cyber resilience and how companies, large and small, are being impacted and defrauded through email-born attacks.
Anthony Caruana | 14 Jun | Read more
The looming opening of Cisco Systems’ new ANZ headquarters is the latest in a series of investments that confirm security vendors are serious about establishing themselves within the increasingly problematic cybersecurity landscape expected to dominate strategizing during 2017.
David Braue | 24 Jan | Read more
Information security has long been a competitive industry, but growing recognition of today’s multi-faceted security threat is driving security specialists to a new partnership model that reflects a very simple truth: if cybercriminals are joining forces to attack their victims, the industry needs to do the same.
David Braue | 30 Nov | Read more
Surveys suggest that Australian business leaders are far more concerned about ransomware than their peers overseas. Yet, as infections continue to rise with each new strain of ransomware, many businesses are putting themselves in danger by taking a laissez-faire approach – paying the ransom and proceeding with business as usual.
David Braue | 16 Nov | Read more
Australian business executives are proving to be desirable targets for scammers that have been remarkably successful at using business email compromise (BEC) (also known as 'whaling') schemes to wring millions of dollars from unwitting victims. Yet even as they struggle to clamp down on losses to scammers breaches of the so-called human firewall, those same businesses are also becoming key contributors to efforts to stop BEC in its tracks.
David Braue | 19 Sep | Read more
Australians are more worried about email security than their peers in comparable countries and fully half of IT decision-makers believe their organisations are more vulnerable to attack than they were 12 months ago, according to new survey results that also found Australian businesses are more concerned about email breaches causing reputational damage than about the actual loss of data.
David Braue | 18 Feb | Read more