Displaying items by tag: Australian Signals Directorate (ASD)

GUEST OPINION by Tim Hartman, Head of Solution Architecture, Australia & New Zealand, Infoblox:  Networking and security company Infoblox has said the Government’s new Cyber Security Strategy should encourage organisations facing threats to speak up and share their intel with their ‘neighbours’, including customers, likeminded companies, and the ASD.

RESEARCH:  In a significant validation of their efforts to advance gender diversity in cybersecurity, the RMIT Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation (CCSR)  has been awarded the Best Researcher of the Year at the 2023 Australian Information Security Association (AISA) Cyber Security Awards.

Dell Technologies has successfully completed an Infosec Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) Assessment of APEX Backup Services, its hosted data protection offering for Software as-a-Service applications, endpoints and hybrid workloads, at the PROTECTED level.

Company News: Snowflake, the data cloud company, today announced it has completed an Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessment confirming that Snowflake's Data Cloud has achieved the Australian Government security status of 'Protected' on selected deployments.

Samsung Electronics has announced that the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has released an "updated Security Configuration Guidance" that includes a range of new Samsung Galaxy devices which can now be used by Australian government departments and Critical Infrastructure agencies.

Privileged access management (PAM) solutions provider Thycotic has appointed Kris Hansen as Strategic Alliance Director, APAC.

Macquarie Telecom business unit Macquarie Government has become a member of the Defence Industry Security Program (DISP), certifying the company to contract with the Department of Defence.

Cloud solutions provider Veritec has secured a contract to operate Microsoft’s Modernisation Factory specifically for the Australian Government and critical infrastructure providers in Australia.

Macquarie Government, part of Macquarie Telecom, has secured accreditation as a "protected" cloud services provider to the federal government.