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AIIA Urges Government To Reconsider Increases In Data Breach Penalties

AIIA Urges Government To Reconsider Increases In Data Breach Penalties

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 (AIIA), is calling on the Albanese Government to take a positive, collaborative approach ...
As Virtual AGM Attendance Soars, How Does Technology Safeguard Against Cyber Threats?

As Virtual AGM Attendance Soars, How Does Technology Safeguard Against Cyber Threats?

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. Today, though, through technology and amendments to the Corporations Act, shareholders and ...
A Third of Australian Organisations Were Breached Over Seven Times in the Past Year

A Third of Australian Organisations Were Breached Over Seven Times in the Past Year

Cyber Risk Index highlights elevated risk as organisations struggle with visibility
โ€˜Cloud engagedโ€™ CEOs are key to Australiaโ€™s multi-cloud maturity

โ€˜Cloud engagedโ€™ CEOs are key to Australiaโ€™s multi-cloud maturity

New global research from VMware reveals CEOโ€™s link to cloud maturity and related business benefits among companies in Australia and across the region.
Lack of IT Skills Greatest Data Security Challenge Australian Enterprises Face โ€“ Rubrik Zero Labs

Lack of IT Skills Greatest Data Security Challenge Australian Enterprises Face โ€“ Rubrik Zero Labs

Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Securityโ„ข 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 the most pressing challenge Australian cybersecurity leaders face in securing their organisationโ€™s data was โ€œinsufficient ...
Progress Survey Reveals Roadblocks to DevSecOps Success in Australia, Shares Factors Driving DevSecOps Evolution for Next Two Years

Progress Survey Reveals Roadblocks to DevSecOps Success in Australia, Shares Factors Driving DevSecOps Evolution for Next Two Years

60% of Australian respondents across 500+-employee organisations admit that they donโ€™t fully understand how security fits into DevSecOps.
Mandiant releases cyber security forecast for 2023

Mandiant releases cyber security forecast for 2023

Mandiantโ€™s Cyber Security Forecast 2023 has provided an overview of the cyber security landscape in 2022, and offered forecasts for likely trends in 2023.
A guide to closing the gaps through Penetration Testing

A guide to closing the gaps through Penetration Testing

One of the best ways to validate your security controls is through simulated attacks on your systems by authorised ethical hackers, commonly called a Penetration Test. Ethical hackers perform penetration tests using the same techniques and tools as adversaries to identify issues and weaknesses in systems and demonstrate real world business impacts.

In The News

Rapid7โ€™s AI Engine Supercharges Security Operations with Generative AI

Rapid7โ€™s AI Engine Supercharges Security Operations with Generative AI

The Rapid7 AI Engine used by its global security operations centre (SOC) teams now includes new generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, transforming the way the company delivers its leading managed detection and response (MDR) services.
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 ...

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