AWS launches Macie: AI powered DLP for the cloud
AWS has launched Macie to help customers classify data and protect it from accidental leaks and intentional hacks.
AWS has launched Macie to help customers classify data and protect it from accidental leaks and intentional hacks.
If there was one lesson from the CSO Perspectives roadshow – which wraps up in Wellington this week – it came around the growing scourge of ransomware. If you’re like the attendees, you’ve probably already been hit at least once. However, a positive outcome of such breaches is that they make it easier to talk security with the CEO – whether about ransomware or the rest of the |9 most serious information-security threats you’ll face through 2019.
David Braue | 03 Apr | Read more
The majority of businesses lack confidence in their data-protection environments but half of Australian businesses are still evaluating alternatives – despite high rates of data loss that have pushed the average cost of data loss to over $1.25m in the last year.
David Braue | 01 Jul | Read more
An academic report slammed Australia's cybersecurity maturity and infrastructure protections as being well behind those of the US, while a joint venture between Macquarie University and Optus moved to address the country's lingering cybersecurity skills deficit.
David Braue | 06 Jun | Read more
Australian businesses were hit by business interruption from security breaches in 2015 at more than twice the rate of the previous year – but Australia is still getting off relatively easy, according to new Telstra security research that found the regional figure was nearly twice as high.
David Braue | 29 Feb | Read more
Even though takeover of privileged accounts is recognised as being by far the most difficult type of attack to deal with, more than half of IT-security and C-level executives believe they can detect a security breach within days and nearly half believe they can stop attackers from breaking into their network altogether.
David Braue | 02 Oct | Read more
Recent equipment refreshes have not prevented Australia’s network infrastructure from being vulnerable to failure and security breaches, a new study has warned.
Andrew Colley | 03 Jun | Read more
Employees and contractors of Vodafone Australia will benefit from increased security as part of an ongoing global overhaul of privileged-account management that will strengthen the company's ability to control access to its networks.
David Braue | 18 May | Read more
Persistent shortcomings in corporate information-security policy continue to compromise security efforts by exposing organisations to human error and the ever more-clever depredations of ransomware and other malware authors, peak security group CompTIA has warned on the back of new research showing that just 54 percent of surveyed companies offer their employees any form of cybersecurity training.
David Braue | 01 Apr | Read more
Nearly 3 out of 4 businesses have experienced an information-security incident over the last year due to the actions of employees, ex-employees, contractors or partners, new research from security vendor Clearswift has found.
David Braue | 20 Mar | Read more
Computers and mobile devices are already copping an onslaught of security breaches, but the situation could get a whole lot worse given the results of a pair of surveys suggesting the Internet of Things (IoT) concept – espoused by both Apple and Google in their burgeoning home and car connectivity initiatives – is both increasingly desirable and a source of growing concern about security and privacy.
David Braue | 03 Jul | Read more
Ongoing growth in security breaches have customers demanding better information about their security exposure, but most will struggle to get it without tapping into intelligent analytics platforms capable of scouring different kinds of log data for trends across cloud, mobile, and other enterprise environments, a security analytics expert has warned.
David Braue | 24 Apr | Read more
Almost two years after ‘IPv6 day’ in 2011, security professionals cannot confidently manage security threats posed by the replacement to IPv4, according to the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Centre.
It's been an interesting year for those following information security news. We started the year with the Vodafone breach, one of the largest privacy breaches ever experienced within Australia.
Jarrod Loidl | 13 Dec | Read more
It's hardly the kind of thing any company wants attached to its name, but HTC's rapid acknowledgment of confessed "serious" security exploit, discovered and published this week by security researchers, may ultimately help deflect criticisms and will, regardless, serve as a valuable reminder to CSOs that mobile devices represent a new and still-evolving security threat within the enterprise.
David Braue | 07 Oct | Read more