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Why You Should Care About the Optus Breach If You’re A Customer

Why You Should Care About the Optus Breach If You’re A Customer

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 be clear to many, is the implications of the breach, and steps that can be taken toward ...
4 Critical Factors in Software Due Diligence Audits for Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

4 Critical Factors in Software Due Diligence Audits for Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

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 traditionally stoic and static ones like hospitality, food, entertainment, aviation, and ...
Why SD-WAN Is Worth the Hype: Transform Your Network

Why SD-WAN Is Worth the Hype: Transform Your Network

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 continues to evolve, the best way to get the most of it is to understand its value and how it ...
MyCISO Launches in Style

MyCISO Launches in Style

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 opened with guest speaker, Jan Schreuder, Co-Founder of the Cyber Leadership ...

Security Fatigue: How Public Agencies Can Counter this Silent Menace

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 past two years, I’m willing to bet remote workers have passwords written down everywhere ...
What I’ve Learnt as an Entrepreneur

What I’ve Learnt as an Entrepreneur

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.
What I’ve Learnt as an Entrepreneur

What I’ve Learnt as an Entrepreneur

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.
Australian Public: How to add 2FA

Australian Public: How to add 2FA

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 look at how it works and how to get it working fast. To keep your online identity as ...
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In The News

Fortinet Expands Its Cloud-Native Security Offerings With The Introduction Of Lacework FortiCNAPP

Fortinet Expands Its Cloud-Native Security Offerings With The Introduction Of Lacework FortiCNAPP

Combining Lacework’s leading cloud-native application protection platform with the Fortinet Security Fabric delivers unmatched visibility and protection across multi-cloud environments 
AusCERT Launches New Tabletop Exercise Service To Boost Incident Response Readiness

AusCERT Launches New Tabletop Exercise Service To Boost Incident Response Readiness

AUSCERT'S new TTX service enables organisations of all sizes to focus on critical aspects of cyber incident response, business continuity and crisis management and uplift capabilities.  
Tesserent Highlights Significant Pivot From NIST On Password Advice – Australian Businesses, Public Sector And Consumers Advised Not To Bother With Complex Passwords

Tesserent Highlights Significant Pivot From NIST On Password Advice – Australian Businesses, Public Sector And Consumers Advised Not To Bother With Complex Passwords

Tesserent highlights significant pivot from NIST on password advice – Australian businesses, public sector and consumers advised not to bother with complex passwords
Genetec Retains World Leader Position In Video Management Software, Analysts Confirm

Genetec Retains World Leader Position In Video Management Software, Analysts Confirm

Ongoing innovation, open architecture, and hybrid cloud solutions underpin sustained global market leadership.
Patch Tuesday Commentray from Tenable

Patch Tuesday Commentray from Tenable

This month, Microsoft addresses 117 CVEs with three rated as critical and four zero-day vulnerabilities, two of which were exploited in the wild. Remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities accounted for 35.9% of the vulnerabilities patched this month, followed by elevation of privilege (EOP) vulnerabilities at 23.9%. Please find below a comment from ...
Cythera Achieves ISO 27001 Security Certification And Invests In MDR Services

Cythera Achieves ISO 27001 Security Certification And Invests In MDR Services

Melbourne, 9 October 2024 - Cythera, a leading Australian cybersecurity service provider, today announced it has achieved ISO 27001 certification, demonstrating its commitment to the highest standards of information security management. The company also revealed significant enhancements to its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service, offering ...
NinjaOne Appoints Joel Carusone To SVP Of Data And AI And Introduces NinjaOne AI For Patch Sentiment

NinjaOne Appoints Joel Carusone To SVP Of Data And AI And Introduces NinjaOne AI For Patch Sentiment

NinjaOne has announced NinjaOne AI for Patch Sentiment, a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that makes customers more efficient and resilient. The company also announced the appointment of Joel Carusone to Senior Vice President of Data and AI. Carusone will drive innovation and lead NinjaOne’s AI product development. Endpoint growth is ...
AI-Powered Data Breaches A Growing Concern For Businesses In Asia Pacific

AI-Powered Data Breaches A Growing Concern For Businesses In Asia Pacific

New Cloudflare survey reveals 87% of cybersecurity leaders are concerned about AI increasing the sophistication and severity of data breaches Sydney, Australia, October 8, 2024 — Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today released a new study focused on cybersecurity in Asia Pacific. The report, called “Navigating the ...
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