data protection - News, Features, and Slideshows

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  Abuse of Westpac PayID is another hit on trust in Australia’s banks

  They may have exfiltrated personal data by different means, but this week’s successful compromise of Westpac’s PayID service highlights the continuing threat faced by organisations whose business relies on collecting large volumes of sensitive information.

  David Braue | 06 Jun | Read more

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  Cloud-based security is creating existential angst for CISOs

  Many security leaders are losing their sense of purpose as development teams increasingly meet security needs using automation and API-based integration with cloud-based security tools, a global cloud-security expert has warned.

  David Braue | 21 May | Read more

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  At least 10m records compromised in single Australian data breach despite drop in NDB reports

  Single breach comprises majority of 10.45m compromised records as cybercriminals continue to ravage healthcare providers

  David Braue | 16 May | Read more

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  Australian fraud losses increasing as BEC scams surge

  Australian businesses lost more than $7.2 million to email scammers last year and Australians are being hit harder by fraud than peers in many other countries, according to new figures that also flagged a 53 percent jump in business email compromise (BEC) last year.

  David Braue | 01 May | Read more

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  Ransomware, the reoccurring revenue model for cybercriminals

  Ransomware will make even the most experienced IT professional shiver..

  Craig Ford | 11 Mar | 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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  2019 Global Encryption Trends Study

  We surveyed 5,856 individuals across multiple industry sectors in 14 countries/regions: Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, the Middle East (which is a combination of respondents located in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates)2, the Russian Federation, South Korea, the United Kingdom, the United States and, two new regions in Asia for the first time, Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam) and Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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  The benefits of converged data protection platforms for mid-size businesses

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  Key Considerations when adopting an SSL/TLS Strategy

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