The employment market is hungry for “future focused” executives with the ability to manage cybersecurity risk at the board level, according to a recent jobs market update that also found employers put a premium on executives who understand the need to continually test systems through regular red-teaming and penetration testing.
David Braue | 29 May | Read more
Online scammers took $US2.7b ($A3.7b) from their victims last year, according to new FBI figures that found business email compromise (BEC) attacks accounted for more than half of all losses.
David Braue | 30 Apr | Read more
It's common for businesses to pay ransomware attackers and may would do it again.
Admins managing Cisco's RV320 and RV325 routers should definitely install new firmware available today.
G Suite admins demand a way to prevent staff from using SMS codes to sign into Google accounts.
The cost of data breaches to Australian companies has surged over the past year to be well above global averages, according to new research in which 47 percent of Australian CISOs said breaches had costed them more than US$5m (A$7m).
David Braue | 08 Mar | Read more
Phishing threats aren't disappearing any time soon, warns Microsoft.
Threat intelligence has become a nice-to-have for many vendors seeking to improve their security offerings, but for the executives leading Cisco’s Security Business Group it’s just the framework for a product-development process that is focused on maintaining a consistent, end-to-end network security architecture while supporting all manner of front-facing customer innovation.
David Braue | 06 Mar | Read more
Organisations are leaving themselves exposed by failing to demand adequate security protections when buying new technology, according to a senior Cisco executive who warned that security and networking specialists must work together better to close persistent gaps.
David Braue | 05 Mar | Read more
Businesses wanting to improve their security practice need to reconsider the way they position cybersecurity within their business philosophy, a security analyst has told an audience of security practitioners while warning that the persistence of “terrifying” images of cybersecurity practitioners had challenged the progression of cybersecurity into becoming a mainstream business concern.
David Braue | 05 Mar | Read more
Asia-Pacific companies are struggling more than their global peers to get their heads around cyber fatigue, John Maynard, vice president for global security sales with Cisco, has warned in kicking off the Cybersecurity Innovation Day at this week’s Cisco Live! conference.
David Braue | 05 Mar | Read more
The annual RSA security conference draws the industry together from around the world, with hot startups rubbing shoulders with the biggest cybersecurity giants as they position their products and strategies for the coming year.
David Braue | 05 Mar | Read more
The week in security: Cybercriminals celebrate NDB’s first anniversary with... more breaches
David Braue | 25 Feb | Read more
While spending on cybersecurity expertise would seem to be a no-brainer, the large number of companies without formal inhouse expertise suggests another ongoing, underlying challenge in finding and securing those skills within the current competitive market.
By CSO staff | 22 Feb | Read more
Conventional views of credential compromise may focus on external activities such as mass credential-stuffing attacks and password-stealing malware, but new breach-compromise statistics suggest that the fast-paced adoption of cloud and associated DevOps techniques has created other vulnerabilities that CISOs still don’t fully appreciate.
David Braue | 08 Feb | Read more
Your PC or phone soon might not work when connecting to a non-compliant USB Type-C charger.
US lays charges against employees of Chinese private firm accused of working for the Chinese government.
The next version of Windows 10 will contain goodies for malware researchers.
More than half of Australian companies believe they have very mature cybersecurity protections even though most are ignoring clear best-practice guidelines from the Australian Signals Directorate, according to a new end-user survey that also found just 46 percent of companies run staff security training more than once per year.
David Braue | 26 Sep | Read more
The workers in Telstra’s mailroom knew something was strange when the room was clogged with workers asking for the packages they had been sent.
David Braue | 10 Aug | Read more
Increasing mandates around the security of personal data have made encryption for every business. Australian businesses are leading the world in the use of encryption to protect backups, payment-related data, and laptops – and yet they still have a long way to go before encryption is both ubiquitous and manageable.
If your last access-control update was even a few years ago, you’re probably more exposed to fraud and exploitation than you’d like to be.
It’s not hard to understand why bot management is critical to maintaining business availability and customer satisfaction – but do you know how to properly deal with bots?
Increasing use of encryption has created new challenges for enterprise security managers. Ever more-sophisticated encryption such as Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) protects data and may even boost your Google ranking – but it also provides a haven for malicious code that may use encryption to bypass enterprise security controls.
Why nation-state attacks are everyone’s problem
