Security Industry — Features
Opinion:Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) Melbourne – an extraordinary collaboration for good
A marathon hack event held over a June weekend in Melbourne attracted more than 50 developers and designers, and a dozen subject matter and technical experts to ‘hack for humanity’. They volunteered their time to create open source solutions for communities impacted by natural disasters and climate change. These prototypes are available to assist in disaster relief planning, emergency management and community recovery.
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C-level executives are more aware than ever about threats to information security.
Cloud security: how to protect your data
To use Cloud computing securely requires companies to know where their data is stored and who has access to it. Ironically, the reason Cloud is so popular is because organisations don't want to worry about these details.
So can the issue be solved by adhering to standards? Increasing legislation? Maybe we need a global technical disaster to ‘sober up’ an industry drunk on the power of Moore's Law.
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The new IAM: nailing shut the door on the Trojan horse
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Despite $1.46b furphy, 2013-14 Budget offers slim pickings for cyber security
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VMWare wants software defined data centres for better security
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iiNet’s Web analytics delivers real-time security bonus
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Security a key factor in LogMeIn’s Internet of Things platform
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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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2013 Brightcove Innovation Award Winners Announced at PLAY 2013 Global Customer Conference
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- FTOS Web Applications DeveloperNSW
- FTTest EngineerVIC
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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.
