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Over Half Of Privacy Pros – 56 Percent In Oceania – Expecting Reduced Budgets In 2024, Sparking Concerns
Jo Stewart-Rattray: “It is paramount that organisations understand what is expected of them in order to devise an effective privacy policy and implement accordingly. Then will they be able to realise the benefits of embedding privacy practices in digital transformation from the outset, including customer loyalty, reputational and financial performance.”
People Are An Essential Element In Your Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan
Introduction
While threat actors lean heavily on technology to execute cyber-attacks, much of their focus is on exploiting individuals. Focused on exfiltrating data and stealing money, criminals manipulate people through deception.
Developing a security culture that helps people identify potential threats and encourages behaviours that decrease ...
Navigating Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity: Your Business Imperative
The severe consequences of recent high-profile breaches, particularly among critical infrastructure industries, demonstrate the clear imperative for enterprises to fortify both their critical infrastructure systems and their cybersecurity posture. Today, almost every business deploys software, which means cyber risk is business risk. However, many ...
Ransomware Attacks: No Sector is Safe
Ransomware attacks have been spreading like wildfire, infiltrating various sectors and leaving devastation in their wake. While industries like finance, critical infrastructure, and healthcare have long been the prime targets, a recent study reveals that the arts, entertainment, and recreation industry is not immune to these cyber threats. In this ...
Prioritising Data Protection: A Conversation with Rad Kanapathipillai on KBKast
Introduction
In a recent episode of KBKast, Host Karissa Breen engaged in an interview with Rad Kanapathipillai, who works in the field of data protection. The episode delved deep into the critical importance of safeguarding sensitive data across all stages of development, shedding light on the challenges organisations face and the strategies needed ...
Australia Sanctions Russian Hacker
Australia has boldly stepped into the cyber battlefield, wielding its autonomous cyber sanctions framework as a weapon against cybercrime. This decisive move came after a Russian individual, Aleksandr Ermakov, was implicated in the cyberattack on Medibank Private, one of the country's largest healthcare networks. The sanctions, a first of their kind to ...
AI for Cybersecurity: Use With Caution
This article discusses the challenges and opportunities that AI poses to cybersecurity, specifically looking into how companies can approach it with caution.
Why Humans Are No Longer The Weakest Link In The Cyber Chain
We’ve all heard the mantra that ‘humans are the weakest link’ in any organisation’s cybersecurity defences, but with generative AI technology making exploits such as phishing email campaigns more convincing and scalable, it’s no longer fair — or effective — to blame individuals for succumbing to attacks. It’s Andrew’s view that while cyber training ...
In The News
Newgen Launches LumYn – World’s First AI-Powered Hyper-Personalisation Platform for Banks
Newgen Launches LumYn - World's First AI-Powered Hyper-Personalisation Platform for Banks. Aiming to transform the Banking Industry with 2X More Conversions and 10X Faster Targeted Product Launches
Discord Is Still Used as Attack Vector – A Six Month Analysis of Malicious Links Intercepted by Chat Protection
Bitdefender has released research on a six-month analysis of Discord’s use as an attack vector by cybercriminals. The research is based on 35 million scanned URLs in which 50,000 dangerous links were detected for distributing malware, phishing campaigns and spam, along with detection from untrusted sources.
Hackers often use Discord to push malware, ...
Palo Alto Networks Research Finds Disconnect Between OT and IT Teams a Concern for Australian Business Security
Australian industrial organisations are the fourth most targeted globally, with 82% experiencing a cyberattack in the past year
Stop Fraud Sooner — At the Edge
$2.74 Billion Lost to Scams in Australia - Why traditional Identity Security is not solving the problem. Australians lost a staggering $2.74 billion to scams in 2023, with a diverse range of tactics from investment scams to phishing. National Scam Report Recent breaches continue to rise, with the MediSecure incident this month, underscoring ...
LogRhythm Survey Finds Three-Quarters of ANZ Companies Changed Their Security Strategy Having Lost Deals Due To Customers’ Lack Of Confidence
SYDNEY/AUCKLAND, 28 May 2024 – New research from LogRhythm, the company helping security teams stop breaches by turning disconnected data and signals into trustworthy insights, revealed that while most security executives in Australia and New Zealand view their cybersecurity defence positively, four in ten companies have lost deals due to customers’ ...
Bitdefender Scamio Now Integrated with WhatsApp for Australia
Scamio, Bitdefender's free AI Scam Detector, is now available for WhatsApp in Australia.
The AI-driven chatbot will help Australians verify online scams and fraud using the popular messaging app. According to the Global State of Scams – 2023 Report, 76 per cent of respondents encountered an online scam at least once a month.
Users simply drop ...
Wavelink Achieves Certification as a Fortinet Authorised Training Centre
Wavelink, a leader in providing enterprise solutions to the channel, has announced it has attained certification from Fortinet to become an Authorised Training Centre (ATC). This accreditation lets Wavelink offer comprehensive, in-person and virtual cybersecurity training using the curriculum developed for the Fortinet Network Security Expert (NSE) ...
FC Barcelona Selects Fortinet As Its Official Cybersecurity Partner For The Future Spotify Camp Nou
The global cybersecurity leader has become the future stadium’s new partner for the next three seasons, until 30 June 2028.
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