Displaying items by tag: Cyberattack

GUEST RESEARCH:  New Relic State of Observability for Energy and Utilities report reveals 40% of respondents experience high-business-impact outages at least once a week, with providers embracing observability and AIOps to reduce the impact 

Under Constant Threat of Attack, CXOs Can Affordably Test their Cyber Recovery Plans On- Demand and Orchestrate Rapid Recovery to a Clean Location in the Cloud

COMPANY NEWS: Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, is announcing a new era in cleanroom technology.

 GUEST RESEARCH

• Healthcare organisations experienced 50% more encryption events than the global average across 2023

• Cloud continues to drive inherent risk and security blind spots as 70% of all data is typically not machine readable by security appliances

• Leadership changes following cyberattacks are on the rise, with major personnel changes reported by 44% of organisations — up from 36% in 2022

Almost half of workers in Australia believe their workplace is vulnerable to a cyberattack, according to the latest Employee Sentiment Index by HR technology platform ELMO Software.

Fending off cyberattacks is a relentless battle. Businesses must allocate resources toward building resilience, says Absolute Software CTO Nicko van Someren. And he should know; his company's software is embedded in almost every laptop shipped in the last 15 years.

GUEST OPINION: 20 September marks the one-year anniversary of the Optus cyber attack, which saw the personal details of 10 million Australians stolen (over a third of Australia’s population)—birthdates, home addresses, phone numbers, passport, and driving licence numbers—leaked on the dark web.

Attention Australians! Your personal data might be at risk. A report by Trend Micro reveals 75.2% of its Australian Identity Protection users were notified their data was found on the dark web.

GUEST OPINION by Asjad Athick, Principal Security Specialist at Elastic: Whenever a major cybersecurity incident occurs, there are two things everyone asks. Could it have been prevented,and what did the victim of the attack do to minimise the damage? The left side of that equation, prevention, is critical and is often the focus of cybersecurity strategies. This is hardly surprising, with the Australian Cyber Security Centre receiving reports of a new cyber-attack every eight minutes – a rate that has been accelerating annually. 

A new research report has debunked five “false assumptions” that people have about social engineering which are integral to why so many fall victim to these forms of cyberattack.

Secureworks Counter Threat Unit researchers find evidence that threat group Bronze President appears to be changing its targeting, believing it to reflect changing intelligence collection requirements of the People’s Republic of China.

The Varonis 2021 Australian Cybersecurity Risk Report determines nearly two-thirds of Australian organisations think a potential cyberattack on their organisation is likely or very likely in the next 12 months. The research also found overconfidence in organisations.

Melbourne eastern suburbs council the City of Stonnington is still continuing its investigation after suffering a cyberattack which disrupted its phone lines and email sevices last weekend.

Backup and disaster recovery services company Global Storage has appointed James Mackie as Sales Director.

IT Security Leaders Are Held Most Responsible For Cyberattacks, Yet Lack the Influence Required to Shore Up Security Strategies

COMPANY NEWS: LogRhythm, the company powering today’s security operations centres (SOCs), today released its latest report, “Security and the C-Suite: Making Security Priorities Business Priorities.” The research, which focuses on the roles and responsibilities of cybersecurity leaders, found that more than half of organisations (55%) in Asia Pacific (APAC) have experienced a cyberattack in the last two years and spend an average of US$17 million each on security activities.

Guest Opinion: Rapid digital transformations and remote work initiatives saw more than half of Australian organisations suffer a data breach in 2020, according to The Future of Cybersecurity in Asia Pacific and Japan report.

GUEST OPINION by Jim Cook, Attivo Networks: The COVID-19 pandemic has been a rough and costly period for many organisations, yet for one group, it has opened up a raft of potentially lucrative new targets.

By Nicki Pereira, Chief Technology Officer Zettagrid

There is a common misconception that the migration of services to a cloud provider means that businesses hand the keys of responsibility over to their new virtual landlord. However, understanding the threats to your business and what your service partner should be making you aware of has never been more important.

BAE Systems has launched its free cyber risk assessment tool specifically aimed at Australian small business to help them prepare for “when, not if, they are breached.”

The reported Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on internet spam-fighting group Spamhaus highlights the the fragility of the internet, according to Australia’s Internet Industry Association.