Private health insurer Medibank is reaping the benefits of faster, more effective user authentication as it nears the end of a three-year overhaul that spanned data discovery, technology simplification, and the introduction of an identity and access management (IAM) framework built around its streamlined data-management processes.
David Braue | 03 Dec | Read more
Staring down a growing compliance burden, IT-security executives are warming to the clarity of the ASD Essential 8 and security audits that are helping them educate boards and pinpoint key areas for remediation in the last months before Australia’s Notifiable Data Breach (NDB) scheme comes into effect.
David Braue | 15 Nov | Read more
You’ve been hearing about the need to protect personally identifiable information (PII) for years now, but things are set to get real in 2018 as data-breach notification laws and EU GDPR regulations impose tough compliance controls on companies from Australia to Zimbabwe.
David Braue | 13 Nov | Read more
Assumptions that government organisations' strict governance requirements make them more secure than conventional businesses are a dangerous fallacy, a security expert has warned in the wake of a growing string of high-profile data breaches in both the public and private sectors.
David Braue | 11 May | Read more
South Korean authorities have revealed details surrounding massive data breach that impacts 27 million people aged 15-65. The compromised data comes from website registrations for various games and online gambling promotions, ringtone storefronts, and movie ticketing.
Steve Ragan | 25 Aug | Read more
In the second half of 2013, the advancement of security breaches across all industries continued to rise. Within this report, we’ll explain how more than half a billion records of personally identifiable information (PII) such as names, emails, credit card numbers and passwords were leaked in 2013 - and how these security incidents show no signs of stopping.