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Brewery breach: Not even beer is safe from ransomware

There were no pints enjoyed at this Scottish brewery this week as it fell victim to a crippling ransomware attack.

Avoidable mistakes lead to iOS cryptomining attacks

The attack dubbed ‘Roaming Mantis’ remains highly active, exploring new tricks and techniques to extend its reach.

Living in today’s new cyber regulatory reality

in recent years, the cyber regulatory market has evolved into a well-defined, addressable market with metrics showing its impact in relation to other associated sectors

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Acronis Disaster Recovery Cloud

The crucial guide to deploying a SIEM solution successfully

SIEM solutions have far-reaching benefits, but Gartner says there are a lot of factors to consider to avoid disaster - here's the company's guide.

Whitepaper: How to make sure your security architecture keeps up with surging network speeds

The annual cost of cybercrime is expected to exceed US$6t by 2021 with a large contributor being the sheer amount of data that requires processing.

Whitepaper: The key to compliance is governing access to data

By implementing a governance-based approach to identity governance, companies can secure their organisation’s sensitive data.

What does sustainable compliance look like?

Getting an organisation compliant is one thing, keeping it that way is another.

The six golden keys to successful identity assurance

When someone tries to access your internal systems, how can you be sure a user is who they claim to be?

Why the Lazarus group poses a massive threat to businesses

Heightened cyberheist activity by the notorious Lazarus group could give rise to more fake supply chain attacks.

Cybersecurity risks that can result from Balkanisation in cyberspace

"We can clearly see that the utopia of a borderless digital global village is coming to an end."

Remote administration tools bring unexpected threats to industrial networks

According to a report published by Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT, RATs are incredibly widespread across all industries.

Exclusive: Aruba APAC CTO talks next steps for the region

“So suddenly, in our region, we have become almost early adopters of these new shifts in technological revolutions.”

Microsoft picks Veritec to operate modernisation factory for AU fed govts

As part of the multi-year contract, Veritec will deploy a production line, featuring fixed price and repetitive processes for validation and design of Azure infrastructure.

Nozomi Networks and The Missing Link team up to deliver industrial cybersecurity solution

Threat actors are increasingly targeting industrial control systems (ICS) in manufacturing and critical infrastructure.

The good and bad of Office 365 security

Let’s start with the positives. Office 365 adoption, and going cloud in general, is good for security.

CrowdStrike and Secureworks partner to integrate UEBA and endpoint protection platform

When the joint offering becomes generally available, both Secureworks and CrowdStrike customers will have access from additional countermeasures driven by the integration.

How voice biometric solutions reduce friction and cut fraud

"By deploying voice biometric solutions, organisations are able to authenticate customer transactions instantly."

Pseudo-ransomware Xbash targeting Linux and Windows discovered

Xbash is data-destructive; destroying Linux-based databases as part of its ransomware capabilities.

New online tool helps organisations evaluate security maturity

The report also assigns a current security maturity tier and compares the organisation’s results to peer benchmarks.

Research finds majority of businesses failing to comply with GDPR

70% of companies couldn’t fulfil data access and portability requests within the GDPR-specified one-month time limit.

AU businesses training staff on cybersecurity, but more needs to be done – survey

Australian businesses are making a determined effort when it comes to cyber security training and education.

Exclusive: Aura on designing a secure IT infrastructure

Being secure by design is an ongoing process and not one that is forgotten as soon as a project is complete.

BlackBerry to roll out EoT platform by end of 2018

BlackBerry has unveiled a new Enterprise of Things (EoT) platform that enables OEMs to produce ‘things’ with high levels of security and safety.

Interview: CA Technologies explores the state of digital trust in APJ

A recent survey by CA Technologies found that 40% of APJ executives have sold customer data, although many cybersecurity pros aren’t actually aware that this happened. How is this possible?

WatchGuard launches multi-factor authentication solution aimed at SMBs

WatchGuard’s AuthPoint solution is a cloud service that can be deployed and managed from any location without the need for expensive hardware components.

Aus companies must build security expertise to develop cyber resilience

Are Australian organisations making the right investments in their operations when it comes to security?

Exclusive: Simplifying data management, protection and recovery

"It is more critical than ever that organisations know what data they have and where that data is located."

Fortinet adds network access control solution for IoT

FortiNAC provides visibility and control of IoT services and automated response to threats at scale in multi-vendor environments.

Why enterprises are still grappling with data loss

Survey results show that many organisations are not following baseline best practices for data protection and disaster recovery.

Yubico to provide hardware security key with Okta’s MFA

YubiKeys, hardware-based protection in the form of physical devices, provide an option for a second factor in Okta MFA.

Our new look: A user experience revolution and a stronger content focus

We’re excited about how this new look reflects what we believe in delivering.

emt Distribution signs exclusive A/NZ deal for malware analytics

VMRay’s malware analysis solution to helps to deepen partner’s capabilities to evaluate the cyber threat landscape

Bitdefender invests in APAC with acquisition of SMS eTech business line

From its base in Melbourne, the new Bitdefender Australia office will retain all current employees of SMS eTech working on the Bitdefender business line.

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HID Global releases new access control solution into A/NZ market

SMBs are 4x more likely to be victims of crime than homes are, a statistic HID Global is looking to tackle with its latest security solution.

New research reveals which employees are being targeted for why

Individual contributors and lower level management account for nearly two thirds (60%) of highly targeted attacks within an organisation.

Azure platform exploited the most for DDoS attacks – report

Research found a 35% increase DDoS attacks using public cloud server-based botnets from the previous 12 months.