Effective security starts from the inside
The need to see eye to eye with board members and business executives about information security has been background noise during the tenure of many a CISO.
David Braue | 09 Jul | Read more
The need to see eye to eye with board members and business executives about information security has been background noise during the tenure of many a CISO.
David Braue | 09 Jul | Read more
University qualifications in cybersecurity are important but are only a start to keeping up with the changing cybersecurity threat, according to a corporate cybersecurity executive and educator who is currently leading nearly 3500 attendees through an online cybersecurity skills course focused on phishing countermeasures.
David Braue | 30 Apr | Read more
Anytime a new flashy household device is released on the market, internet connectivity is promoted as one of its main features.
Robert Le Busque | 13 Dec | Read more
End-users are juggling far more passwords than prior studies have estimated, according to a new analysis by LastPass that suggests the average employee is tracking 191 different passwords.
David Braue | 02 Nov | Read more
Disruption and repetitional damage have become legitimate goals of cybersecurity activity
David Braue | 11 Sep | Read more
Australian businesses have traditionally kept mum about the circumstances and repercussions of data breaches, but better threat intelligence services and a growing culture of sharing are building out a growing library of best-practice examples that are giving depth to vague warnings about cybersecurity breaches.
David Braue | 14 Feb | Read more
Australian consumers are still pretty poor at securing their information but those same consumers are unforgiving of businesses that do the same, a new study suggests. Similarly, breaches of online megalith Yahoo had caused its acquisition by Verizon to be pushed back, reports suggested.
David Braue | 30 Jan | Read more
There were concerns that enterprises were focusing too much on protecting themselves from sophisticated attacks and leaving themselves open to attackers utilising common techniques, while some analysts were warning that the incessant focus on security was causing password and security fatigue for users and CISOs alike. Little wonder many companies are keen to phase out passwords completely.
David Braue | 17 Oct | Read more
This year's high-profile battle of wills between Apple and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which sparked worldwide discussions about the propriety of security 'back doors', was eventually resolved when the FBI found another way to get the data it wanted.
David Braue | 02 Jun | Read more
Even though many executives outwardly recognise the importance of data security, they are waiting 6 to 12 months for cybersecurity issues to be resolved as new apps and systems continue to be developed with processes that see security and compliance as afterthoughts.
David Braue | 02 Jun | Read more
The government's recent $230m commitment to build Australia's national cybersecurity defence was welcomed by industry and notable for many reasons, but observers were quick to point out that the new Cyber Security Strategy (CSS) marked the first time the government had publicly stated that it was ready to go on the offensive against hackers.
David Braue | 02 Jun | Read more
The threat of employees bringing their own smartphones and software to work was entirely overblown. But consumerisation can still be headache.
It wasn't too long ago that the Internet of Things (IoT) was just another catchphrase for a niche class of product that was expected to slowly creep from the periphery of the CSO's attention towards the mainstream.
David Braue | 02 Jun | Read more
US regulators have launched an inquiry to discover how exactly iPhones and Android smartphone patches are distributed and whether consumers can find out if and when they’re available.
High-profile companies will always be singled out by cybercriminals but the majority of businesses find themselves in the spear-phisher's sights due to simple economics – and one security expert argues that they can save themselves by becoming too expensive to bother with.
David Braue | 04 May | Read more