by The Production Team | Dec 2, 2022 | Risk Management, Security Awareness
It’s easy to see why ransomware is such a cash cow for cybercriminals. It’s more efficient and profitable than other cybercrimes and by exploiting our near-total dependence on the internet, bad actors can demand millions of dollars to restore operations. It’s...
by The Production Team | Dec 2, 2022 | Leadership, Vendor Management
You will know the drill if you work in cybersecurity: something goes wrong, and immediately the recriminations begin. Vendors, customers, consultants and service providers form an orderly circle, face off, and begin blaming and shaming. We all know deep down...
by The Production Team | Dec 1, 2022 | Exposure Management, Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY, Australia. (December 1, 2022) — Tenable®, the Exposure Management company, today announced the results of a telemetry study examining the scope and impact of the critical Log4j vulnerability, known as Log4Shell, in the months following its initial disclosure....
by The Production Team | Dec 1, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY, December 1, 2022 – Lookout, Inc., the endpoint to cloud security company, today announced the discovery of nearly 300 loan apps that exhibit predatory behaviour such as exfiltrating excessive user data from mobile devices and harassing borrowers for repayment....
by The Production Team | Dec 1, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
Sydney, Australia, December 1, 2022 – DigiCert, Inc., a leading global provider of digital trust, today released its 2022 State of Digital Trust Survey that finds that almost half of consumers in APAC (42%) have stopped doing business with a company after losing trust...
by The Production Team | Dec 1, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY – 1 November 2022 – Bitdefender has released its November Threat Debrief, a monthly series analysing threat news, trends, and research from the previous month. It includes a Ransomware Report highlighting the top ransomware families detected, as well as the top...
by The Production Team | Dec 1, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY, Australia – December 1, 2022—Genetec Inc. (“Genetec”), a leading technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions, today shared the results of its 2022 State Physical Security report. Based on...
by The Production Team | Nov 28, 2022 | Security Operations
The cybersecurity strategies followed by many organisations tend to be rather piecemeal affairs. Multiple products are deployed to tackle different threats with little thought given to creating a cohesive whole. Such an approach is concerning for a number of reasons....
by The Production Team | Nov 28, 2022 | Governance & Risk
AIIA urges Government to reconsider increases in data breach penalties as part of wider Privacy Act review: penalties regime needs to not discourage good behaviour. Australia’s peak body for innovation technology, the Australian Information Industry Association...
by The Production Team | Nov 28, 2022 | Executive Communication
Virtual attendance at Annual General Meetings (AGM) has soared in recent years, providing unheralded levels of engagement, access and accountability. Traditionally, AGMs have been essentially a closed club, limited to only those with the time to visit in person....
by The Production Team | Nov 24, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY, Nov 24, 2022 – Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, today announced that 32% of Australian organisations have had customer records compromised multiple times over the past 12 months as they struggle to profile and...
by The Production Team | Nov 23, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
Sydney, Australia – November 22, 2022 – Australian organisations’ level of multi-cloud maturity and the related business benefits could be tied to their CEOs’ engagement with the technology, new global research from VMware suggests. According to the VMware Multi-Cloud...
by The Production Team | Nov 18, 2022 | Reports & Predictions, Zero Trust
SYDNEY, Australia, November 15, 2022 — Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security™ Company, today announced the Australian findings from its inaugural State of Data Security report, commissioned by Rubrik and conducted by Wakefield Research. Among the key findings regarding...
by The Production Team | Nov 16, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
Sydney, Australia —November 15, 2022— Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS), the trusted provider of application development and infrastructure software, today announced the results of its 2022 survey, “DevSecOps: Simplifying Complexity in a Changing World.” More than 600 IT,...
by The Production Team | Nov 15, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
Europe is on track to eclipse the United States as the target-of-choice for ransomware attackers, a trend cyber experts speculate could be the result of toughened policies in Washington. Mandiant’s Cyber Security Forecast 2023 has provided an overview of the...
by The Production Team | Nov 15, 2022 | Offensive Security, Risk Management
Data breaches, ransomware attacks, and other cyber security incidents are increasingly making headlines across Australia. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner reports that they were notified about 396 data breaches between January and June 2022 with...
by The Production Team | Nov 11, 2022 | Security Operations
The Pandemic Has Exacerbated Existing Security Problems As the cybersecurity threatscape continues to become more complex and challenging, the media have primarily focused on the struggles faced by businesses. But COVID-19 responses also had the unintended consequence...
by The Production Team | Nov 9, 2022 | GENERAL
REGISTER TODAY Date & Time November 15, 2022 12:00PM – 2:00PM Speakers Kavitha Mariappan – EVP, Customer Experience and Transformation at Zscaler Karissa Breen – Founder of KBI.Media Heng Mok – CISO APJ at Zscaler Intended...
by The Production Team | Nov 9, 2022 | Cloud Security
By Alex Nehmy, Director of Industry 4.0 Strategy APJ at Palo Alto Networks The Air Gap is dead The notion of having air-gapped computer systems from the primary corporate environment and the internet is antiquated, steeped more in fairy tale romance than reality. An...
by The Production Team | Nov 9, 2022 | Security Awareness
Remote working has become a staple of everyday life. A recent report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics highlights almost half of all Australians regularly work from home. It also appears that the trend is likely to continue with employees and employers both...
by The Production Team | Nov 8, 2022 | Executive Communication
The CISO entrusted with the protection of Uber’s data was found guilty of failing to effectively protect that data. CISOs now face actual personal accountability. Former CSO, Joe Sullivan, and other top officials covered-up a 2016 Uber data breach, which...
by The Production Team | Nov 3, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
Absolute Software, the only provider of self-healing, intelligent security solutions, today announced availability of Building Resilient Zero-Trust Capabilities(1), published by 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. This new report defines...
by The Production Team | Nov 1, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
Sydney, Australia (1 November 2022) – The first step to addressing the myriad types of risk that need to be managed in an organisation is understanding risk appetite and tolerance. ISACA has released two new resources that offer guidance in both areas: the Using Risk...
by Nozomi Networks | Nov 1, 2022 | OT Security, Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY, October 31, 2022 — Nozomi Networks Inc., the leader in operational technology (OT) and IoT security, today announced the SANS 2022 OT/ICS Cybersecurity Report finds industrial control systems (ICS) cybersecurity threats remain high as adversaries set their...
by The Production Team | Oct 26, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
Almost half of all respondents activated an improved cybersecurity strategy in 2022 Sydney, AUSTRALIA, October 26, 2022—As cybersecurity awareness month becomes a focus of discussion in October, new research conducted by Genetec Inc. (“Genetec”), a leading technology...
by The Production Team | Oct 21, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
Poor password management making it easy for cyber-attackers to access corporate systems Although passwords are amongst the most important lines of defence against nefarious cyber-attackers seeking access to online accounts or corporate networks, password health...
by The Production Team | Oct 18, 2022 | OT Security, Reports & Predictions
60% of Australian organisations will increase their cyber budget in 2023 90% reported public information sharing and transparency was a risk that could lead to a loss of competitive advantage 81% felt new requirements for mandatory disclosures of cyber incidents to...
by The Production Team | Oct 12, 2022 | Security Operations
By Nikki Saunders, cybersecurity EcoSystem Program Manager, Pacific, Schneider Electric Cybercrime is the biggest threat facing corporate Australia today, costing the economy more than an estimated $3trillion. With the sophistication, agility, and frequency of...
by The Production Team | Oct 10, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
As Putin comes under growing pressure, his conscription campaign to get more Russians into the conflict has sparked an underground market on illicit online communities and social media for Russians to avoid the draft. Risk intelligence firm Flashpoint has seen fake...
by The Production Team | Oct 7, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
Researchers at the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) have discovered an availability vulnerability in the IKEA TRÅDFRI smart lighting system. An attacker sending a single malformed IEEE 802.15.4 (Zigbee) frame makes the TRÅDFRI bulb blink, and if they...
by The Production Team | Oct 4, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
By Jonathan Knudsen, Head of Global Research, Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center The Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) recently published a vulnerability advisory related to Open5GS, which is full of dense technical detail. But what does it all mean...
by The Production Team | Sep 23, 2022 | Reports & Predictions, Security Awareness
By now, you’ve likely seen the news about Optus, Australia’s second-largest telco, having suffered a serious data breach, and the exposing of the private information of their millions of current and historic users through a malicious cyber-attack. What might not...
by Phil Odence | Sep 1, 2022 | Assessment & Audit, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnerships
The fervor of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) is robust in Asia Pacific, according to leading firm EY (source). The pandemic that has ravaged economies and industries worldwide, led to an acceleration of digital transformation across many industries, even...
by Thomas LaRock | Aug 25, 2022 | Network Security, Security Operations
Is the hype surrounding software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) worth it? SD-WAN allows IT engineers to centrally and intelligently manage or orchestrate wide-area networks using applications like SD-WAN controllers. As this fast up-and-coming technology...
by The Production Team | Aug 25, 2022 | GENERAL
Thursday, 18th August, I was the MC of the MyCISO Launch event hosted at the stunning ‘Shell House’ in Sydney, Australia. The team has been working on the development of the MyCISO product for a number of years, so the launch was a huge milestone for them. The launch...
by The Production Team | Aug 15, 2022 | Security Operations
Every one of us knows one person or colleague who has a Post-it® Note full of passwords stuck to their monitor. Pre-pandemic, this is a one-in-ten case of security malpractice. But with how rapidly organisations have adopted digital solutions for remote work in the...
by The Production Team | Aug 2, 2022 | GENERAL
A few things I’ve learnt over the years of being an Entrepreneur. This changes for me all the time, our challenges become easier to tackle and what scares us varies. Ultimately, you learn so much and I wanted to share what I’ve learnt so far. Sleep is everything I...
by The Production Team | Aug 2, 2022 | GENERAL
A few things I’ve learnt over the years of being an Entrepreneur. This changes for me all the time, our challenges become easier to tackle and what scares us varies. Ultimately, you learn so much and I wanted to share what I’ve learnt so far. Sleep is everything I...
by The Production Team | Aug 1, 2022 | SMB
Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is a necessity to ensure your daily security, no matter who you are. It can protect your social media accounts, banking accounts, email, or just about any other online service from being hacked. “How?” you ask. Well, let’s take a closer...
by The Production Team | Jul 25, 2022 | Data Management
Business growth should not come at the expense of customer privacy. Unfortunately, that’s not a belief that everybody holds, and the result is an environment in which data privacy breaches are increasing in regularity and severity. Whether it’s Facebook, Cambridge...
by The Production Team | Jul 14, 2022 | Security Operations
If you’re like me, then working in IT means you also assume Tech Support duties for friends, family, and those distant relatives that only seem to call when they’ve got a problem. I just clicked on this link, and my computer is doing something weird. I think my PC has...
by The Production Team | Jun 27, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
The self-sustaining ransomware industry earned $692m from collective attacks in 2020 The shift to the subscription economy has created a new norm in the as-a-service world. And it’s not just Netflix and Spotify that have adopted this business model. New research from...
by The Production Team | Jun 27, 2022 | BUSINESS
The self-sustaining ransomware industry earned $692m from collective attacks in 2020 The shift to the subscription economy has created a new norm in the as-a-service world. And it’s not just Netflix and Spotify that have adopted this business model. New research from...
by The Production Team | Jun 22, 2022 | GENERAL
I was recently invited to a Roundtable Media Event held by Darktrace to unpack the new era of cyber security threats. Held on Thursday 16th June, it was led by Tony Jarvis, Director of Enterprise Security and Dave Palmer, Chief Product Officer. The following is a...
by Scott Fletcher | Jun 21, 2022 | Cloud Security
I’m sure we can all agree, adopting a cloud strategy is awesome. The opportunities and benefits it affords are many. However cloud governance is an ongoing problem that plagues security, compliance, and management teams, which cloud vendors like Oracle are continually...
by The Production Team | Jun 2, 2022 | Reports & Predictions
According to recent research, published by Tenable’s Staff Research Engineer, Satnam Narang, scammers have once again dug deep into their bag of tricks to capitalise on the fervour in non-fungible tokens (NFT) and cryptocurrencies. Many are hijacking verified and...
by Jo Stewart-Rattray | May 24, 2022 | Data Management, Governance & Risk
It is without doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic forced some of the most significant changes in society, business and workforce practices in the last century. With billions of consumers and workers driven online, businesses adapted and accelerated their digital...
by The Production Team | May 23, 2022 | Security Awareness
If all communication was abolished, society would crumble. Fast. Yet one area that I have noticed in the security industry, which I believe needs a lot more attention – and often goes unmentioned – is how we communicate internally to our teams on the...
