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Are ransomware attacks becoming a cost of doing business in Australia?

Are ransomware attacks becoming a cost of doing business in Australia?

It's easy to see why ransomware is such a cash cow for cybercriminals. Itโ€™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. Itโ€™s also the worst-kept secret among Australiaโ€™s cyber community that businesses have been quietly ...
Letโ€™s stop playing the blame game and start taking more responsibility for cybersecurity

Letโ€™s stop playing the blame game and start taking more responsibility for cybersecurity

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.ย ย    We all know deep down that this circular firing squad routine is toxic and counterproductive, but it is an ...
Tenable Research Finds 72% of Organisations Remain Vulnerable to โ€œNightmareโ€ Log4j Vulnerability

Tenable Research Finds 72% of Organisations Remain Vulnerable to โ€œNightmareโ€ Log4j Vulnerability

Tenableยฎ, 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. According to the data collected from over 500 million tests, 72% of organisations remain vulnerable to the Log4Shell ...
Lookout Threat Lab Discovers Predatory Loan Apps on Google Play and Apple App Store

Lookout Threat Lab Discovers Predatory Loan Apps on Google Play and Apple App Store

Data exfiltration from devices used to pressure for repayment by harassing the customer or their contacts
9 Out of 10 Organisations in Asia-Pacific Report Digital Trust as โ€˜Extremely Importantโ€™: DigiCert Survey

9 Out of 10 Organisations in Asia-Pacific Report Digital Trust as โ€˜Extremely Importantโ€™: DigiCert Survey

In APAC, organisations report digital trust as important due to the expanding threat landscape within the region. Also, 91% of consumers are concerned about cyber threats, more than the rest of the world.
Bitdefender Threat Debrief โ€“ November 2022

Bitdefender Threat Debrief โ€“ 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 countries affected including Australia, and the top trojans targeting Android during October.
Genetec Releases 2022 State of Physical Security Report

Genetec Releases 2022 State of Physical Security Report

Cybersecurity concerns are on the rise; Data from physical security technology seen as โ€˜mission-criticalโ€™ tool for business operations; Industry embraces hybrid cloud infrastructure and unified solutions.
Why an Effective Security Strategy Requires Three Pillars

Why an Effective Security Strategy Requires Three Pillars

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. It makes effective management difficult to achieve because IT teams need to monitor ...

In The News

Juniper Networks Wins Four Top Awards at Interop Tokyo 2024

Juniper Networks Wins Four Top Awards at Interop Tokyo 2024

The QFX5240 Switch won the โ€œBest of Showโ€ Grand Prix award, alongside three other runner-up and special prize awards, testament to Juniperโ€™s commitment to delivering exceptional end-to-end operator and end-user experiences
NCS Australia Appoints Nikita Atkins as AI Lead, Strengthening Commitment to Innovation-led Growth

NCS Australia Appoints Nikita Atkins as AI Lead, Strengthening Commitment to Innovation-led Growth

NCS Australia has appointed Nikita Atkins as AI Lead, with a commitment to help customers safely deploy AI technologies to drive business and community outcomes. This appointment reinforces NCSโ€™ investment in AI leadership in the Asiaโ€“Pacific region. Nikita will advance NCS Australiaโ€™s AI-specific capabilities, solutions and strategy; drive NCS ...
Macquarie Data Centres Starts Construction on Its AI and Cloud Data Centre In Sydney

Macquarie Data Centres Starts Construction on Its AI and Cloud Data Centre In Sydney

Macquarie Data Centres has started construction on its IC3 Super West data centre after appointing prominent Australian construction company, FDC Construction (FDC) as the main building contractor. The project will bring more sovereign AI and cloud data centre capacity to Sydney. IC3 Super West is being purpose built for high-density cloud and AI ...
New SolarWinds Report: IT Pros Want AI but Fear Shortcomings in Data Quality, Privacy, Security

New SolarWinds Report: IT Pros Want AI but Fear Shortcomings in Data Quality, Privacy, Security

SolarWinds 2024 Global IT Trends Report asks whether IT pros see AI as a friend or foe
Elastic Contributes Universal Profiling Agent to OpenTelemetry

Elastic Contributes Universal Profiling Agent to OpenTelemetry

The contribution reaffirms Elasticโ€™s commitment to vendor-agnostic, open-source ingestion and collection of observability and security telemetry data
Check Point Software Simplifies Cloud Application Security with AI-Powered WAFaaS

Check Point Software Simplifies Cloud Application Security with AI-Powered WAFaaS

The New CloudGuard WAF-as-a-Service offers a fully managed, scalable solution empowering businesses to navigate the digital world with confidence and resilience
Patch Tuesday Comment: Tenable

Patch Tuesday Comment: Tenable

Microsoft addressed 49 CVEs in its June 2024 Patch Tuesday release with one rated as critical and no zero-day or publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. Tenableโ€™s counts omitted two CVEs that were not issued by Microsoft, which includeย CVE-2023-50868 (issued by MITRE) and CVE-2024-29187 (issued by GitHub). Please find below commentary from Satnam ...
SentinelOneยฎ Transforms Cloud Security for AWS Customers

SentinelOneยฎ Transforms Cloud Security for AWS Customers

New products deliver AI-driven protection for serverless resources running in AWS Fargate

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