data protection - News, Features, and Slideshows

• CSO Webinar: What's next in the cyber-threat landscape?

  With so much change all the time, how can executives best prepare their businesses to meet the security challenges of the coming years? CSO Australia, in conjunction with Mimecast, explored this question in an interactive Webinar that looks at how the threat landscape has evolved – and what we can expect in 2019 and beyond.

  CSO staff | 21 Nov | Read more

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  My Health Record extension highlights lingering security, privacy concerns

  Health minister Greg Hunt may have cited website interruptions as the reason for extending the opt-out period for the government’s My Health Record (MyHR) scheme, but the decision also gives more time to address privacy concerns that have seen frequently-compromised industry sectors rushing to boost data security.

  David Braue | 16 Nov | Read more

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  The week in security: Warnings on exploits as malware Struts its stuff

  Plans to collect and analyse large volumes of performance data for operational benefit are nothing new, but logistics of managing so much data have proven problematic in the past.

  David Braue | 13 Nov | Read more

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  How nbn is using data to help fix service issues before they happen

  Legacy data warehouse architectures may have been designed for large amounts of data – but even massive warehouses would struggle to manage, much less analyse, the 20 to 30 terabytes of operational data that nbn™ Australia collects on a daily basis.

  David Braue | 07 Nov | Read more

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  Heathrow Airport lands $223k fine for three seconds on video in a lost USB stick

  A hefty fine for personal details in video that could be spread via a screenshot.

  Liam Tung | 11 Oct | Read more

• How to achieve better third-party security: Let us count the ways

  No enterprise is an island. In a connected world, a business cannot function without multiple relationships with third parties -- outside vendors, contractors, affiliates, partners and others.

  Taylor Armerding | 30 Jun | Read more

• How to defend against the OpenSSL Heartbleed flaw

  CSOs need to take a number of steps as soon as possible to protect their organizations against the OpenSSL vulnerability that has shaken the tech industry, experts say.

  Antone Gonsalves | 10 Apr | Read more

• How to Test the Security Savvy of Your Staff

  How do you know your employees retain what you teach them in company-required security awareness training? You don't -- unless you regularly test their security savvy and effectively address their mistakes during post-test follow-up sessions.

  Kim Lindros and Ed Tittel | 24 Feb | Read more

• Your Twitter account has been hacked! Here's what to do about it.

  Kirsty woke up to find that someone else had taken control of her Twitter account. I tell her how to get it back.

  Lincoln Spector | 09 Sep | Read more

• Send attackers on a wild goose chase with deception technologies

  Midsized companies with revenues from $100 million to $1 billion spent an average of $3 million on information security as of 2014 per "The Global State of Information Security Survey 2015" from PwC.

  David Geer | 18 Aug | Read more

• The 4 most insecure areas of online behavior

  Security experts and users follow a drastically different set of best practices to protect their security online, according to a new report from Google.

  Kristin Burnham | 12 Aug | Read more

• CRM backups or audit trails? Yes, please

  Like nearly any transactional system, usable CRM data backups are tricky because the data is always changing and dependent on coherency across several tables. Ideally, you'd fully quiesce the system and do a full backup every day, or enable the online backup. But with modern cloud systems and 7x24 customer access (via portals or mobile apps), you can't take the system down, and cloud vendors like SFDC don't provide a full backup more often than once a week. The situation with audit trails is different: they may reliably capture all the changes, but you may only be allowed to track a limited number of fields (the default in SFDC is 20 per object).

  David Taber | 30 Jul | Read more

• Data explosion offers challenges, opportunities to security pros

  230 million patients. 3,300 hospitals. 900,000 healthcare professionals. 98 percent of U.S. pharmacies. More than 700 different electronic health record platforms. 764 million medication histories. 6.5 billion transactions processed last year alone.

  Maria Korolov | 17 Jul | Read more

• Cyber insurance: Buy, but be aware

  "Caveat emptor" - buyer beware - is the most common warning to those shopping for big-ticket items. That, apparently, applies in spades to buying cyber insurance.

  Taylor Armerding | 10 Jul | Read more

Whitepapers about data protection

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  2018 Global Threat Intelligence Report

  2018 Global Threat Intelligence Report

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  Your Email is your weakness: Australian Orgs know they should be more cyber resilient

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  Deep Dive: Cyber Resilience for Email

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  Cyber Resilience for Email: Solution Brief