Metrics / Budgets
News
Lack of resources affecting critical infrastructure security: Report
Australia has experienced a declining participation in government-lead critical infrastructure protection (CIP) programs this year due to fewer resources, according to a new survey from Symantec.
Gartner: Security services spending to hit $US49bn in 2015
Gartner is predicting that corporate spending across the world for a broad swath of security services will climb from about $US35 billion today to $US49 billion in three years, with the managed security services expected to jump most of all.
Security on a shoestring budget
According to figures released recently by Kaspersky Lab, 1300 IT pros were asked about IT risks and security spending. Among large companies, the average security budget is $3.35 million, according to Kaspersky's data.
2011 State of the CSO
More budget? Perhaps a little. More attention from senior management? Yes, a bit. Better results? That's not so clear.
Opinions
Opinion : Mark Ames discusses "Value for Policy"
Your board and audit committee are looking for reduction in risk exposure driven by your information security policy. Is this something you can track and measure?
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Australian Information Security Association issues blunt warning as National Cyber Security Awareness Week begins
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Bank trojan targets users of Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox
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Security a key factor in LogMeIn’s Internet of Things platform
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Big Data Investigations: Opportunity and Risk
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The week in security: Aussie banks targeted as mobiles drive privacy fears
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Lan 1 meets demand for cloud security with Authentication-as-a-Service
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Splunk Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM
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Dell Sets Sights on Cisco, Announces Game-Changing NSA Series That Introduces Powerful Next-Gen Firewall Advances for Mid-sized Businesses and Distributed Enterprises
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Silver Peak saves Riverbed customers up to 86 per cent with software upgrade program
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Ovum analysis ranks Orange Business Services ahead of APAC competition for service capability and strategy
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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.
