Tag: cyber security

March 13, 2024

Major oil company TotalEnergies has upgraded its operational technology (OT) network with infrastructure from connectivity services and intelligent networking tools provider Allied Telesis, as part of its plan to ensure legacy OT in its North Sea oil platforms is replaced […]

February 19, 2024

Security and risk management leaders face disruptions on multiple fronts: technological, organisational and human. Preparation and pragmatic execution are vital to address these disruptions and deliver an effective cyber security programme. Gartner believes investing in effective risk management of third-party […]

February 12, 2024

Asking the question about how much IT security is enough is about as useful as enquiring about the length of a piece of string. The answer is, “it depends”. What is certain, however, is that the threat landscape is changing. […]

January 22, 2024

Remote work began as a temporary measure during the pandemic but has long been a permanent fixture in our new way of working. Organizations have shifted to remote desktop work environments at an increasing speed since then – simultaneously expanding […]

November 21, 2023

Let me introduce you – if you’re not already familiar with them – to two individuals who never met, and whose lifetimes didn’t even overlap: Auguste Kerckhoffs and Claude Shannon. Auguste Kerckhoffs was a 19th century Dutch-born cryptographer. In what […]

November 9, 2023

The intersection between business and technology has always fascinated Tony Buffomante, the global head of cyber security and risk services at Wipro. It necessitates a careful balancing act, weighing innovation against security. The rapid pace of technological development means organisations […]

February 22, 2023

Over the past few years, enterprises across Australia have moved more and more of their systems and applications to the cloud, with the trend only gathering pace with people increasingly working outside the traditional network perimeter, often at home and […]

February 13, 2023

In the summer of 2021, analyst Gartner published its Market guide for security awareness computer-based training. It reported that the human element (85%) continues to be a primary catalyst for data breaches, with phishing accounting for 36% of breaches. One […]

December 29, 2022

Hacking can be a dirty word. It evokes images of a person sitting in the dark with a black hoodie on, hunched over a keyboard, in front of multiple screens, attacking an innocent business, or individuals, online. It automatically generates […]

June 1, 2022

Over a third of the global cyber security workforce plans to change professions in the future due to frustrations with the sector, fuelling a talent shortage that is impacting organisations’ abilities to effectively secure their systems, an industry survey has […]

April 12, 2022

Australia is facing a technology skills crisis. Enterprises everywhere are having trouble finding the people they need to carry out key roles in their IT departments in just about every discipline, from data analytics to cloud computing and cyber security. […]

January 11, 2022

Cyber security threats rank among the top risks facing the world, as governments struggle with climate change, growing social inequality and recovery from the pandemic, the World Economic Forum (WEF) warns. The growing vulnerability of governments and businesses to cyber […]

November 10, 2021

Once upon a time, remote working was fairly uncommon in the corporate world. But when Covid-19 spread across the globe at the start of 2020, most businesses had to send their employees home and ask them to work online instead. […]

September 21, 2020

Cyber security discussions have become increasingly about cyber resilience in recent years, but the concept of being able to bounce back from disruption needs to be applied across the entire business, especially as organisations become more dependent on IT. Resilience, […]

November 7, 2019

Security breaches always seem to be in the news, but only a handful of organizations are protecting themselves against these threats by actively reducing their cyber-risk exposure. Research by the Ponemon Institute revealed that 63 percent of CISOs don’t regularly […]

August 21, 2018

Teamwork makes the dream work. Unfortunately, when it comes to cyber security issues, CEOs and their CIOs aren’t always on the same page, and the dream can turn into a nightmare. This communications breakdown is highlighted by two recent surveys […]

April 10, 2018

The European Union will begin enforcement of its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on May 25. Is your organization ready? “The thing about GDPR is you never know when a breach is going to take place,” says Steve Durbin, managing […]