WannaCry Exposed Gaping Risk Window between Identifying Vulnerability Risk and Fixing It
Flexera’s New Software Vulnerability Manager First to Shut Risk Window…for Good When WannaCry hit, the world learned that for two months a patch had been available that would have prevented…
Cyber on the brain for Australian CEOs
Australian companies making higher investment in cyber security Cyber security is front of mind for Australian CEOs, with investment in cyber defence seen as a top priority, according to the…
Recent Videos from The Australian Security Magazine and Chief IT
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MySecurity TV – Juniper Network’s Chief Architect Richard Bayliss
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MySecurity TV – SunData’s Kon Kakanis with an Integrator’s Perspective
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MySecurity TV – Security in the Cloud – Interview with Webroot’s Crispin Kerr
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Canalys 2014: Cloud trends from Microsoft’s GM APAC Stanimira Koleva
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Honeywell’s Global Offering Leader accounts the current security landscape
Fortinet Threat Landscape Report Reveals Visibility and Control of Distributed Infrastructures Have Diminished as Number of Potential Attack Vectors Continues to Grow
Research Demonstrates Highly Automated Cyber Defenses are Critical to Mitigate Pervasive “Cybercrime-as-a-Service” Attacks Jon McGettigan, senior director, APAC and the Pacific Islands, Fortinet “In the past year, highly-publicised cybersecurity incidents…
FireEye Report: FIN10 Anatomy of a Cyber Extortion Operation
FireEye has identified a set of financially motivated intrusion operations being carried out by an actor we have dubbed FIN10. Within these clusters of activity, the attacker(s) have compromised organizations’…
Lockheed Martin STEM internships recognised by South Australian Government
Lockheed Martin Australia announces 2017 Defence Honours Scholarship recipients Defence technology and innovation company Lockheed Martin Australia (LMA) and two of its software engineering interns were honoured at the South Australian Government’s Defence and STEM Scholarship and Internship Awards Ceremony,…
The Jetson’s Cyber Concerns – Future Smart Cities Cybersecurity Checklist
As cities continue to grow smarter, they will also become easier to hack. With millions (if not billions) of dollars going into research for urban domains and the Internet of Things (IoT), there will be more opportunities to utilise technology…
Using your gait to power and secure devices
Researchers from CSIRO’s Data61 have developed new technology which uses the way a person walks, their gait, to power wearable devices and also possibly used as a new authentication method, which could replace passwords, pins or fingerprints. Rather than looking…
AISA members vote to return Board of Directors
The votes cast at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) held on Friday the 24th of March have been counted and AISA members have voted to return the organisation’s Board of Directors. In total, a participation rate of 13.1 per cent…
Mandatory Reporting Notification Laws in Australia: It’s Still All Talk!
Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Tenable Network Security, Ron Gula helped open the Australian Information Security Association National (AISA) Conference in Sydney this morning with a keynote presentation, ‘Cyber Security – do we have it right?’ The answer is…
Tax Stamp Body Calls For Urgent Tobacco Protocol Ratification
THE INTERNATIONAL trade body for tax stamps is pressing for the urgent ratification of a WHO treaty that could help end the global trade in illicit tobacco products. The International Tax Stamp Association (ITSA) wants to see more countries ratify the…
Five Ways to Reduce your Ransomware Risk
Attributed to Gene Tang, Head of Solutions Architecture at Rackspace Asia The speed and pervasiveness of the recent WannaCry ransomware attack took the business world by surprise. The extortion malware infected computer networks in more than 150 countries, leaping from…
The Jetson’s Cyber Concerns – Future Smart Cities Cybersecurity Checklist
As cities continue to grow smarter, they will also become easier to hack. With millions (if not billions) of dollars going into research for urban domains and the Internet of Things (IoT), there will be more opportunities to utilise technology…
Acronis Backup 12.5 Advances Data Protection and Renders Traditional Solutions Obsolete
The new release of Acronis Backup 12.5 delivers unmatched reliability, scalability, and speed; unified touch-friendly management console radically reduces the effort to back up, manage, and restore data; and delivers the industry’s first automated data protection from ransomware. Acronis has changed…
Future Submarine Industry Day arrives in Perth
Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP, has welcomed the latest of the Future Submarine Program Australian Industry days to Perth. The $50 billion investment in Australia’s Future Submarine Program will directly create and sustain around 1,100 jobs…
Five Ways to Reduce your Ransomware Risk
Attributed to Gene Tang, Head of Solutions Architecture at Rackspace Asia The speed and pervasiveness of the recent WannaCry ransomware attack took the business world by surprise. The extortion malware infected computer networks in more than 150 countries, leaping from…
The Jetson’s Cyber Concerns – Future Smart Cities Cybersecurity Checklist
As cities continue to grow smarter, they will also become easier to hack. With millions (if not billions) of dollars going into research for urban domains and the Internet of Things (IoT), there will be more opportunities to utilise technology…
Future Submarine Industry Day arrives in Perth
Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP, has welcomed the latest of the Future Submarine Program Australian Industry days to Perth. The $50 billion investment in Australia’s Future Submarine Program will directly create and sustain around 1,100 jobs…
Acronis Backup 12.5 Advances Data Protection and Renders Traditional Solutions Obsolete
The new release of Acronis Backup 12.5 delivers unmatched reliability, scalability, and speed; unified touch-friendly management console radically reduces the effort to back up, manage, and restore data; and delivers the industry’s first automated data protection from ransomware. Acronis has changed…
Your mum & IoT security
On October 21, 2016 the USA suffered one of the largest cyber attacks of its kind. But this wasn’t the Russians. The culprits were much more terrifying. Thanks to the boom in Internet of Things (IoT) devices and poorly configured…
