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Data sovereignty and the dangers of hosting data outside of Australia
Hosting your data in the cloud offers several benefits for organisations, including easier file sharing among employees, easy remote backup and, in some cases, cost savings. But with the US Patriot Act, the DMCA and similar, storing your data with an offshore company may allow foreign entities to rifle through said data - without your knowledge.
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Carlo Minassian,Founder and CEO of earthwave
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AusCERT 2013: Cloud-based scanner identifies new malware by its ancestry
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AusCERT 2013: International cyberwar response more complex than geopolitical treaties: NATO CCD COE analyst
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AusCERT 2013: Kill the password, says Mozilla
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AusCERT 2013: Companies unaware of IPv6 security risk even if they’re not using it
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AusCERT 2013:Packetloop looks at the half-life of security information
Incident handling is a vast topic, but here are a few tips for you to consider in your incident response. I hope you never have to use them, but the odds are at some point you will and I hope being ready saves you pain (or your job!).
- Have an incident response plan.
- Pre-define your incident response team
- Define your approach: watch and learn or contain and recover.
- Pre-distribute call cards.
- Forensic and incident response data capture.
- Get your users on-side.
- Know how to report crimes and engage law enforcement.
- Practice makes perfect.
Warning: Tips for secure mobile holiday shopping
I’m dating myself, but I remember when holiday shopping involved pouring through ads in the Sunday paper, placing actual phone calls from tethered land lines to research product stock and availability, and actually driving places to pick things up. Now, holiday shoppers can do all of that from a smartphone or tablet in a few seconds, but there are some security pitfalls to be aware of.
