by Karissa Breen | Jul 4, 2023 | SMB
I must admit that it is quite a stressful experience and for some, it may even turn out to be a harrowing one. A basic question that you may have is: Why would someone be interested in my Facebook account? =/ There could be various reasons why someone would...
by The Production Team | Jul 3, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Sydney, 3 July 2023 – LogRhythm, the company helping security teams stop breaches by turning disconnected data and signals into trustworthy insights, has announced its 20-year milestone with a renewed commitment to delivering innovative solutions. As a security-first...
by The Production Team | Jun 29, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY, June 29, 2023 – Trend Micro Incorporated(TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, today announced new research* revealing that most enterprises invest 5-10% of their IT budgets specifically on private 5G network security, despite an...
by Karissa Breen | Jun 27, 2023 | SMB
It is intriguing how people find so many ways to pull innocent people into emotional traps. These scammers strike at a time when people are most vulnerable and use techniques that seem completely harmless. One such scam that gained (un)popularity during the Covid-19...
by The Production Team | Jun 27, 2023 | Security Awareness
SYDNEY – June 27, 2023 – The COVID-19 pandemic catalysed a digital payments revolution, forever reshaping expectations. Today’s consumers demand flexible, real-time payment options throughout their digital journeys. As banks, fintechs, retailers and other businesses...
by The Production Team | Jun 26, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
More than a quarter of Australian consumers fear their mobile apps will be breached and need mobile developers to invest more in delivering robust cyber protection in mobile apps, says market research sponsored by Appdome. The finding was detailed in Appdome’s...
by Rohan Langdon | Jun 21, 2023 | GENERAL
Since being unveiled to the public a little over six months ago, the generative AI platform ChatGPT has focused attention on the potential of artificial intelligence. Seen by some as a powerful tool and others as a direct threat to their jobs, ChatGPT can complete an...
by The Production Team | Jun 21, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
Sydney, AU, 21 June: In Forescout’s final OT:ICEFALL report, Forescout Vedere Labs presents three new vulnerabilities and concludes the project after one year of research following the original disclosure. The research has yielded three key insights into the current...
by Karissa Breen | Jun 21, 2023 | Leadership
Trend Micro is currently running one of the largest cybersecurity roadshows ever, the ‘Risk to Resilience World Tour’ covering more than 120 locations around the globe. The event aims to help organisations improve their cybersecurity posture and achieve long-term...
by Karissa Breen | Jun 20, 2023 | Security Operations
Scenario 1:MyBank Pty Ltd has 300+ critical legacy enterprise applications. Almost all of them were built by the then IT-savvy non-developers. They were built with limited or no design considerations. Security was not even a design-criteria back then. These...
by The Production Team | Jun 14, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
AUSTRALIA; June 14, 2023 – Organisations that closely align their cybersecurity programs to business objectives are 18% more likely to achieve target revenue growth and market share and improve customer satisfaction, as well as 26% more likely to lower the cost of...
by The Production Team | Jun 14, 2023 | Reports & Predictions
SYDNEY, Australia – June 14, 2023 – A new global report released today by CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR) shows how the tension between difficult economic conditions and the pace of technology innovation, including the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI), is influencing...
by The Production Team | Jun 14, 2023 | Leadership
It’s critical that IT teams work together with cybersecurity teams to ensure their organisation’s infrastructure is secure. Unfortunately, roles within the tech industry have become much more specialised over the past few decades, leading to isolated...
by The Production Team | Jun 14, 2023 | Leadership
Conversations are the fulcrum upon which we, as an industry, identify and begin to solve the challenges facing Australian businesses. Recently, at the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC) event in Sydney, it was made clear that Australia has the opportunity to...
by Gabor Szathmari | Jun 13, 2023 | Security Awareness, Social Engineering
As the latest phishing techniques are more sophisticated than ever before, general anti-phishing tips cannot safeguard you from becoming a victim. High-quality emails, confusing branding of domain names and poor user interfaces all play right into the hands of the...
by Gabor Szathmari | Jun 13, 2023 | Security Awareness, Social Engineering
We already know that phishing is a significant threat to businesses and individuals. Anti-phishing tips, such as “always hover over the link in an email before clicking” or “be wary of emails with poor grammar”, are meant to help us avoid being tricked by phishing...
by Karissa Breen | Jun 13, 2023 | 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 | FinTech
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, 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
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, 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...
