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COMPANY NEWS:  Huntress has announced that it has entered into a strategic collaboration with CyberCert, the online certification issuer of the SMB1001 cybersecurity standard. The collaboration aims to deliver the dynamic cybersecurity standard, via the Huntress partner ecosystem, to businesses in Australia to increase their overall cyber resilience. Headed up by Huntress Regional Director APAC, Reece Appleton, and CyberCert Co-Founder & CEO, Peter Maynard, the partnership will offer SMB1001 certifications for a number of Huntress Managed Service Provider (MSP) partners.

GUEST RESEARCH: Today, Commvault, a leading provider of data protection and cyber resilience solutions for hybrid cloud organisations, released its ANZ State of Data Readiness report 2024, revealing that businesses in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) face considerable challenges in quickly resuming operations post-cyberattack due to gaps in cyber resilience.

• New innovations in Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform provide more complete visibility across the enterprise to eliminate alert fatigue and illuminate security gaps freeing security teams’ to proactively improve cyber resilience.
• Platform launches in an era of increasing AI-augmented threats, with new research finding that 74% of security professionals believe these threats are already having an impact, but 60% report their organization is unprepared.

COMPANY NEWS: Darktrace, a global leader in cybersecurity AI, today introduced the Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform™. The platform includes Darktrace’s existing best-in-class security products supplemented by a set of new industry-first innovations and features, including for email and operational technology (OT).

Australian Cyber Security Centre research reveals that an Australian small business falls victim to cyber threats every 10 minutes. As SMEs increasingly digitise their day-to-day operations and rely on technology, cybersecurity has emerged as a make-or-break factor for SMEs' survival.

GUEST OPINION: The recent mass exploitation of critical vulnerabilities in Ivanti solutions have caused significant disruption for the company’s thousands of customers. This led to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issuing a directive to “all federal agencies to disconnect the impacted Ivanti products from their networks and perform additional forensic analysis and clean-up steps in case they’ve already been compromised.” But that’s just the disruptive effect the situation had on federal users. The incident is impacting countless enterprises as well, with Ivanti stating it has more than 40 thousand customers.

GUEST OPINION by Andrew Kay, APJ Director of Systems Engineering at Illumio: Overall, the new Mandatory Notification of Data Breach scheme (MNDB) coming into effect on 28 November is good news for Australian residents.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Martin Creighan discusses Cyber Resilience; A.I.'s role in exacerbating and defending against security breaches; Commvault's new cloud offering; Metallic AI; and how APAC partners can benefit from it all.

On September 27-28, 2023, DHS hosted the first Western Hemisphere Cyber Conference, which convened foreign government cyber leaders to discuss cybersecurity challenges and identify areas of collaboration.

GUEST OPINION by cybersecurity firm Virsec: Organisations of every size and kind face constant challenges in maintaining adequate cybersecurity skills in the face of growing cyber risk. The existing shortage of cybersecurity skills and high threat levels have been exacerbated by COVID-19 and remote working, causing a rise in IT expenses. This issue is particularly acute in the government sector.

Bitdefender has unveiled GravityZone XDR, a native extended detection and response solution that correlates disparate threat directions from endpoints, applications, cloud, identity sources, and networks into a single actionable view. It is available as a SaaS solution and through Bitdefender MDR services.

Email security and cyber resilience company Mimecast is continuing its expansion in APAC by establishing an office in Singapore as a regional hub for focus on South-East Asia.

A second tranche of legislation on critical infrastructure is likely to be passed by the Senate this week after it was given the go-ahead, with minor tweaks suggested by a committee.

Many Australian companies believe that their cybersecurity investments are failing, whilst the number of breaches increased by 50% in Australia from 2018 to 2019, according to new research which also found that with the acceleration of cyber threats due to COVID-19, the overall threat landscape is accelerating and putting extra pressure on security functions.

There’s a disconnect in cybersecurity culture and cyber resilience according to a new research report that reveals that 35% of Australian respondents don’t feel their organisation is cyber resilient.

Global email and data security company Mimecast has acquired digital threat protection vendor Segasec.

With cyber attacks on the rise, "the average number of focused attacks per organisation within Australia has almost doubled this year (232) compared to the previous 12 months (106)".