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GUEST OPINION: Consumers are helpless when trusting personal data with businesses. Those businesses often use third-party platforms to store, manage or process the data, with little transparency to the consumer on how or where that data is being used.

What has the Australian Government achieved by placing sanctions on Russian attacker Aleksandr Ermakov for allegedly being the main person behind the intrusion into health insurer Medibank?

COMPANY NEWS: The world has changed considerably in the last 12 months.

Macquarie Technology Group has welcomed the 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy, a new government plan that will seek ways how to bolster Australia’s cybersecurity defences.

GUEST OPINION: Data breaches are an unfortunate reality in today's digital landscape. Understanding the implications of these breaches is critical in regulated industries like healthcare, finance and education.

Telco Singtel Optus is the most distrusted brand in Australia for the last 12-month period, the market research firm Roy Morgan says, adding that this was the first time any company had taken the top spot from Facebook/Meta since it started issuing the measure of trust and distrust in 2018.

GUEST OPINION: It might be on the 'to-do' lists of many CISOs, yet the adoption of zero-trust security architectures by Australian organisations is taking place more slowly than in other parts of the world.

The Australian Government is restoring the separate role of Privacy Commissioner, five years after it was folded into the responsibilities of the Australian Information Commissioner.

Seventy-two percent of Australia’s 50 million stolen credentials were accounted to the country’s media and telecommunications division—a 99% increase compared to 2021—while the Australian public sector accounted for nearly 20% of the country’s total data breaches, according to risk intelligence provider Flashpoint’s report on the state of Australia’s cyber threat intelligence.

Fears that law enforcement may be lurking in the wings has forced the new administrator of BreachForums to shut down the website.

A New York resident has been arrested on charges of allegedly running the BreachForums web site which was used to provide information about data leaks to prospective buyers.

Australia now has the highest data breach density in the world, with breaches spiking by 489% this quarter (and it's not over yet). Globally, data breaches have decreased by 70.8% while Australian breaches have surged by 1,550%. In fact, Australia's data breach density is 24 times higher than the global average.

GUEST OPINION by Lani Refiti, ANZ Regional Director of cybersecurity firm Claroty: The Australian Government has recently announced a team comprising 100 of the best cybersecurity experts in Australia to track down the people responsible for recent attacks on Optus and Medibank, forming a new partnership with the Australian Federal Police and Signals Directorate.

GUEST OPINION: While repercussions from the recent hacker attacks on Australia's Optus and Medibank are still resounding as media writers estimate ever higher damage costs, attacks on supply chain targets are flying under the radar.

Workforce management solutions provider Humanforce has acquired Ento, a management solution company used for rostering shift management, time, and attendance, leave and onboarding.

e5 Workflow has implemented its e5 Connect, a SaaS offering to be used by healthcare insurance provider Medibank, marking the transition from on-premise hosting to off-site cloud hosting, reducing infrastructure and inhouse support required to run the platform.

Security awareness trainer KnowBe4 has appointed Natalie Burrows to the role of ANZ sales director.

RMIT has announced a new bachelor of business degree which it says is aligned with industry needs and the future of work, specifically designed to give students and working professionals transferable skills and a sound business technology understanding.

La Trobe University researchers are embarking on ways to improve community health and wellbeing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, using targeted grants from La Trobe, Medibank and Optus.

Consumer advocate CHOICE is warning Australians they only have three weeks to avoid, what it claims is a “rip off” by their private health insurance, with consumers responding to a new survey identifying private health insurance as their most pressing cost concern (80%), beating fuel (78%) and electricity (74%).