by Karissa Breen | Jun 13, 2023 | Continuous Business, Crisis Management, Security Operations
So, the board members at MyBiz have agreed upon making security as one of SC the foremost focus areas this year. With increasing capabilities of hackers and cyber thieves, the complexity of securing systems and data is enormous. The CISO has been evaluating having an...
by Karissa Breen | Jun 6, 2023 | Banking & Finance
As the digital world continues to dominate the banking industry, concerns about data security and privacy are coming to the forefront. As algorithms become more advanced, building a profile based on users data, and identifying abnormal transactions that could indicate...
by Karissa Breen | Jun 6, 2023 | SMB
Retro Blockbuster Plot: Sometime in the 1980s – a filthy rich industrialist – his beautiful daughter – a constant target for kidnappers – always accompanied by bodyguards – one fateful day – kidnapping succeeds – hefty ransom asked – her big strong bloke comes to...
by The Production Team | Jun 6, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today published Volume 2 of its Unit 42 Network Threat Trends Research Report. The report analysed global telemetry from Palo Alto Networks’ Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW), Cortex Data...
by Karissa Breen | May 30, 2023 | SMB
What are shortened or tiny URLs?In the world of shortcuts, how could URLs stay behind. With domain names getting stranger and web links getting obnoxiously longer, tiny URLs come to the rescue. These are like capsule covers that make medicines easy to digest. Usually...
by Ashley Diffey | May 29, 2023 | Security Awareness
There’s general agreement among IT and security professionals that passwords are one of the weakest links in security. They’re a leading cause of breaches, with 82% of incidents last year resulting from stolen passwords, phishing attacks, and overall poor...
by Michael Bovalino | May 26, 2023 | Microsegmentation, Risk Management
Of all the cybersecurity challenges facing organisations today, one of the most pervasive is ransomware attacks. According to research firm Statista, during the first half of 2022 there were a total of 236.1 million ransomware attacks worldwide. During these attacks,...
by The Production Team | May 22, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Reports & Predictions
Recorded Future warns about spread of AI-generated voice cloning technologies for banking fraud, disinformation, executive impersonation, family emergency scams and more Intelligence company Recorded Future today released the findings of its latest deepfakes research....
by The Production Team | May 17, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
New Research Highlights APIs are Now a Leading Attack Vector, Posing New and Significant Threats to Organisations SUNNYVALE, Calif.—May 16, 2023— Cequence Security, the leading provider of Unified API Protection (UAP), today released its second half 2022 report...
by Matias Madou | May 16, 2023 | Leadership
Boards globally are concerning themselves with issues of cybersecurity: 93% of organisations, boards and directors are asking questions about protection levels and capabilities, according to a recent survey, but what they agree to invest in may not necessarily align...
by The Production Team | May 10, 2023 | Cyber Resilience, Reports & Predictions
Sydney, Australia (10 May 2023)— ISACA has released results from its 2023 annual survey on digital trust, which reveals a significant gap between the importance of digital trust and the organisational changes being implemented to realise this. Only 29 percent of...
by The Production Team | May 8, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Three quarters (75%) of Australian organisations worried about 5G network security threats – with seven in ten (72%) most concerned about security of data that moves across 5G network Cloud-hosted apps and data in motion are...
by The Production Team | May 8, 2023 | Assessment & Audit, Reports & Predictions
Intelligence company Recorded Future has released its April 2023 CVE Monthly report which identifies a total of approximately 2,200 vulnerabilities, mostly across major software vendors such as Microsoft, Apple and Google, and impacting both consumer and enterprise...
by The Production Team | May 3, 2023 | Cloud Security, Risk Management
The appetite among enterprises to use cloud services, and the rising popularity of cloud-first and cloud-only environments, is behind a steady increase in the number of services being made available in-market. As cloud migration and adoption continues in earnest,...
by The Production Team | Apr 28, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Organisations taking a best-of-breed, point product approach to security were more likely to be attacked by ransomware in the last year John Maddison, executive vice president of products and chief marketing officer, Fortinet, said, “According to the Fortinet research...
by The Production Team | Apr 27, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Latest LTS release sees over 4x growth in one year SYDNEY– APRIL 27, 2023 – New Relic (NYSE: NEWR), the all-in-one observability platform for every engineer, released its second annual State of the Java Ecosystem Report to provide context and insights into the...
by The Production Team | Apr 27, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
78% of CISOs say they will see an increase in vulnerability exploits if they can’t make DevSecOps work more effectively Sydney, April 27, 2023 – Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), the leader in unified observability and security, has announced the findings of an independent global...
by The Production Team | Apr 26, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Absolute Software has released new research revealing the increasing complexity in enterprise device environments, including operating system (OS) fragmentation and volume of applications, is impacting security and compliance posture. The findings in Absolute...
by The Production Team | Apr 24, 2023 | CAASM
As an industry, mining has always been slow to adopt new ideas due to the enormous upfront investment in capital. It is clear, however, that new approaches are required to transform operations because of the pressure on margins and the need to extract raw materials...
by The Production Team | Apr 21, 2023 | Reports & Predictions, Risk Management, Secure Communications, Security Operations
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – April 20, 2023 –BlackBerry Limited today released the BlackBerry Manufacturing Cybersecurity Study with a warning that outdated and unsupported legacy operating technologies (OT) are exposing substantial vulnerabilities for Australian manufacturers...
by The Production Team | Apr 19, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Reports & Predictions
Key Findings Phishing attacks around the world rose nearly 50% in 2022 compared to 2021 Education was the most targeted industry, with attacks increasing by 576%, followed by finance and government, while last year’s top target, retail and wholesale, dropped by 67%...
by The Production Team | Apr 19, 2023 | Endpoint Protection
Amidst an environment of ever-increasing digital threats, growing numbers of organisations are turning to cyber insurance as a means of protecting against the fallout from attacks. These organisations are hoping insurance payouts will help defray the...
by The Production Team | Apr 19, 2023 | Reports & Predictions, Security Operations
SYDNEY, Australia, Apr. 19, 2023 – Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today published Volume 7 of its Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report. The report looked at more than 1,300 organisations. It analysed the workloads in 210,000 cloud accounts,...
by The Production Team | Apr 18, 2023 | Product Development
Lured by the promise of lower operating costs and improved flexibility, many businesses are continuing to increase their usage of software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings. Designed to provide support to almost every function within a business, SaaS platforms remove the...
by The Production Team | Apr 18, 2023 | CAASM, Telco
The introduction of digital devices into just about everything we do is pervasive; smart vehicles, smart watches, smart homes, through to smart cities; IoT is already fundamentally reshaping our daily lives. The foundational infrastructure that allows the...
by The Production Team | Apr 18, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND, April 18, 2023 – F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) has announced the findings of its 2023 Curve of Convenience Report, highlighting Asia-Pacific (APAC) consumers’ perspectives on balancing data sharing in a world of seamless connectivity. The report...
by The Production Team | Apr 14, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Sydney, Australia (14 April 2023) —In a tightening economic market, addressing enterprise performance can help organisations better weather challenges by reducing costs, creating efficiencies, and coming in on schedule while improving overall quality. ISACA’s...
by The Production Team | Apr 13, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY – April 13 2023 – ExtraHop, the leader in cloud-native network detection and response (NDR), today released the 2023 Global Cyber Confidence Index: Cybersecurity Debt Drives Up Costs and Ransomware Risk, which identified a link between cybersecurity debt and...
by The Production Team | Apr 12, 2023 | Assessment & Audit, Reports & Predictions
Intelligence company Recorded Future has released its March 2023 vulnerabilities summary which identifies 5 newly disclosed vulnerabilities with high risk scores, 4 of which are zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft, Adobe, Fortinet and Samsung. 4 of the 5...
by The Production Team | Apr 11, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY, Aust. – 11 April, 2023 – Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today published a new survey report, “The State of Cybersecurity 2023: The Business Impact of Adversaries on Defenders,” which found that 91% of...
by The Production Team | Apr 4, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
4 April 2023 – Wesfarmers OneDigital today announced a five-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support the business’s developing data and digital platform to deliver the best value and services for its customers. The new agreement means AWS will be the...
by The Production Team | Apr 3, 2023 | Reports & Predictions, Telco, Threat Intelligence
SYDNEY, April 3, 2023 — Flashpoint, the globally trusted leader in risk intelligence, today released a new report on the state of Australia’s cyber threat intelligence—a first-of-its-kind data-driven analysis of emerging security and intelligence trends impacting...
by The Production Team | Mar 30, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Veritas Technologies, the leader in secure multi-cloud data management, today announced new research that indicates almost half of Australian consumers (46%) think it’s the responsibility of the organisations that store their information online to delete it when it’s...
by The Production Team | Mar 30, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today published its 2023 State of Cloud-Native Security Report. The report surveyed 200 Australians to better understand their cloud adoption strategies and how they work. With organisations of all...
by The Production Team | Mar 30, 2023 | Reports & Predictions, Zero Trust
CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), the global leader in Identity Security, today announced findings of a global survey that explores trends in Identity Security adoption and the relative maturity of organisations embarking on related strategies. Results show that only 9% of...
by The Production Team | Mar 30, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Research from Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), the customer engagement platform that drives real-time, personalised experiences for today’s leading brands, shows that investment in customer engagement continues to drive revenue growth and help companies meet their financial goals...
by The Production Team | Mar 29, 2023 | GENERAL
The federal government recently announced it will form a new agency, the National Office of Cyber Security, which will be led by a new cyber co-ordinator to manage major incidents across government and to liaise with affected companies during the emergency phase. In...
by The Production Team | Mar 29, 2023 | CAASM, IoT & Robotics
2022 Threat Roundup: The Emergence of Mixed IT/IoT Threats Rapid digitisation means that organisations are now more connected than ever. Most organisations now host a combination of interconnected IT, OT, IoT and sometimes IoMT devices in their networks, which has...
by The Production Team | Mar 29, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY, Australia – March 29, 2023 – Qualys Inc., (NASDAQ: QLYS), a leading provider of cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, today released its 2023 TruRisk Research Report. The report traverses the global number of vulnerabilities detected by Qualys in...
by The Production Team | Mar 27, 2023 | Reports & Predictions, SMB
On a recent SBS Insight episode, Anna Borzi, a guest on the segment, speaks candidly about her thoughts towards privacy and her unwillingness to give away her personal details. Anna’s experience serves as a reminder of the importance of protecting personal...
by The Production Team | Mar 27, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence
Security breaches and incidents are occurring with alarming regularity, with the big names reported in the media, only a fraction of the actual number of beaches taking place. Just this week, Latitude Financial, a major financial services provider operating across...
by The Production Team | Mar 27, 2023 | Security Operations
The capabilities offered by business software applications are constantly growing, but unfortunately so too are the number of vulnerabilities. Once identified by cybercriminals, these vulnerabilities in code can be used to cause disruption and financial losses. Rapid...
by The Production Team | Mar 22, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
A new report from Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, found that ransomware and extortion actors are utilising more aggressive tactics to pressure organisations, with harassment being involved 20 times more often than in 2021, according...
by The Production Team | Mar 22, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, today released new research* revealing that while Australian organisations plan to increase cybersecurity budgets in 2023, business leaders hold conflicting views on the function. To read...
by The Production Team | Mar 22, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, today announced the release of the 2023 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report. This report is the 10th anniversary edition and covers a decade of vulnerability insights, providing valuable...
by The Production Team | Mar 22, 2023 | GENERAL
Context: Last week, consumer finance provider Latitude Financial suffered a cyberattack that compromised the personal information of around 330,000 customers in New Zealand and Australia. Most of the stolen data was copies of driver’s licenses or...
by The Production Team | Mar 16, 2023 | Risk Management
ChatGPT is now the fastest-growing app in history, hitting 100 million active users in just two months—way faster than the nine months it took previous record-holder TikTok to reach that mark. According to its developer OpenAI, Australia can also expect access to the...
by The Production Team | Mar 16, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY, Australia, March 16, 2023 Prisma SASE Improves Security Posture and Reduces Complexity According to the Gartner® 2022 Roadmap for SASE Convergence report1, by 2025, 80% of enterprises will have adopted a strategy to unify web, cloud services and private...
