The overall risk posed by cybersecurity threats has increased over the past 12 months and adoption of cloud technologies is by far the biggest reason, according to new research that found just 31 percent of organisations can mitigate a new risk within a month.
David Braue | 07 Nov | Read more
Threat intelligence has become a nice-to-have for many vendors seeking to improve their security offerings, but for the executives leading Cisco’s Security Business Group it’s just the framework for a product-development process that is focused on maintaining a consistent, end-to-end network security architecture while supporting all manner of front-facing customer innovation.
David Braue | 06 Mar | Read more
Businesses struggling to understand their privacy exposure and obligations need to adopt a customer-focused ‘privacy engineering’ approach that curates accumulated data not as a technological achievement but as a business asset, the chief privacy officer of Cisco has advised.
David Braue | 06 Mar | Read more
Organisations are leaving themselves exposed by failing to demand adequate security protections when buying new technology, according to a senior Cisco executive who warned that security and networking specialists must work together better to close persistent gaps.
David Braue | 05 Mar | Read more
Businesses wanting to improve their security practice need to reconsider the way they position cybersecurity within their business philosophy, a security analyst has told an audience of security practitioners while warning that the persistence of “terrifying” images of cybersecurity practitioners had challenged the progression of cybersecurity into becoming a mainstream business concern.
David Braue | 05 Mar | Read more
In first nine months of 2014, after 1,922 confirmed incidents, criminals managed to compromise 904 million records. Many of the incidents reported in 2014 were record setting, including twenty of them that resulted in the compromise of more than a million records each.
Steve Ragan | 18 Nov | Read more
Signal-to-noise ratios are hard to manage. As a security professional, you want the threat data, you want the attack notifications and alerts, and you need intelligence. But, when there's too much coming in, those alerts and notifications fall to the wayside. They're easily dismissed and ignored.
Steve Ragan | 30 May | Read more
For most companies it is a race against time to patch critical vulnerabilities and avoid a data breach. Based on the findings of Today’s State of Vulnerability Response: Patch Work Demands Attention, sponsored by ServiceNow, the inability to patch in a timely manner is due to broken patch management processes. Specifically, many companies are relying upon manual processes and have difficulty in prioritising the vulnerabilities that need patching. Ponemon Institute surveyed almost 3,000 IT security professionals in Australia/New Zealand, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom and the United States to understand how organisations are responding to vulnerabilities and preventing hackers from exploiting attack vectors. In this report, we present the Australia and New Zealand findings.
