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  • Defence to fund cyber security prototyping

    By Tim Lohman | 06 September, 2011 10:58

    The Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) will spend up to $2.2 million on prototyping new cyber security technologies to help ‘future proof’ Australia’s defence capabilities.

  • Defence gives its security pass card a fail

    By Tim Lohman | 13 May, 2011 09:11

    Defence is to overhaul the electronic access card system which controls staff access to facilities in the Canberra region amid decreasing overall performance of the security system.

  • Social media under review at Defence

    By Tim Lohman | 06 May, 2011 15:12

    Defence minister, Stephen Smith, has announced a review into Defence's use of social media as well as green-lighting two major new technology projects.

  • No classified data on misplaced USB stick: Defence

    By Tim Lohman | 14 March, 2011 09:56

    Australia’s data loss prevention and encryption vendors will no doubt be salivating at the Defence’s confirmation that a USB stick allegedly found by a radio announcer on a Qantas flight does indeed contain Defence information.

  • Defence to up ICT security skills

    By Tim Lohman | 07 February, 2011 13:37

    Defence is set to brush up on ICT security skills, signalling intentions to provide all personnel with additional training on technology-related risk.

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Security Awareness Tip

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!).


  1. Have an incident response plan.

  2. Pre-define your incident response team 

  3. Define your approach: watch and learn or contain and recover.

  4. Pre-distribute call cards.

  5. Forensic and incident response data capture.

  6. Get your users on-side.

  7. Know how to report crimes and engage law enforcement. 

  8. Practice makes perfect.

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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.

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