Security Awareness involves educating individuals within an organisation about potential cyber threats, safe online practices, and the importance of maintaining a security-conscious mindset. Security Awareness programs aim to empower employees to recognise and mitigate cybersecurity risks, reducing the likelihood of falling victim to social engineering attacks such as phishing or malware. Effective security awareness efforts encompass regular training sessions, simulated phishing exercises, and the dissemination of relevant information to foster a culture of cybersecurity vigilance.
As Australian organisations race to embed AI tools across human resources, finance and operations, they may be missing a critical security fault line. While disgruntled employees or contractors gone rogue remain a concern, the next major data breach is increasingly likely to come from an algorithm that never intended malice.
Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) provides attackers with advanced toolsets and templates that enable them to quickly deploy phishing campaigns.
The rapid rise and evolution ...
Olly Stimpson, Senior Security Strategy Adviser ANZ at CyberArk provides his recommendations for organisations to protect privacy in the lead up to Data Privacy Day.
As cyber threat actors continue to leverage more and more sophistication in phishing attacks and other cases of fraud targeting customers and consumers, organisations need to ...
Introduction
Australian organisations face an array of cybersecurity challenges that didn’t exist half a decade ago.
And yet the reliance on traditional security and legacy ...
Cybercrime rates in Australia have surged, with online attacks averaging out to one every six minutes, according to the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD).(1) For ...
As Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals continue throughout the holiday season, millions of consumers will log on to snag the best offers of the year. But they aren’t the only ...
SYDNEY, Australia – 4 September 2025 – Barracuda threat analysts have published a report on the latest techniques being used by the Tycoon phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) kit ...
KnowBe4 launches its seventh resource kit for cybersecurity awareness month to empower individuals & organisations to "Secure Our World" with practical tools and training
Barracuda threat analysts have uncovered two innovative techniques being used by cyber attackers to help malicious QR codes evade detection in phishing attacks.
Research shows financial institutions experience up to 300 times more cyberattacks than other sectors, with large banks reporting 45% of employees susceptible to phishing attacks
ESET launches ESET Cybersecurity Awareness Training in Australia, helping local businesses to avoid breaches resulting from human error.
ESET Cybersecurity Awareness ...
Just 24 hours after OpenAI launched its highly anticipated GPT−5 model with promises of “significantly more sophisticated” prompt safety, exposure management ...
