data breaches

Data breaches are growing more common, and more damaging. While they are often seen as a data security problem, I would argue that this lets organisations off the hook for their poor data management practices. We always ask, “how did they get in?”, but never questions like, “why does this organisation still have this sensitive […]

As the nation faces an array of complex security challenges in coming years, home affairs minister Clare O’Neil has announced a program to develop a new cybersecurity strategy to strengthen the country’s critical infrastructure and become the “world’s most cyber secure country by 2030”. O’Neil believes the new national strategy has got to be a […]

The idea of banning ransom payments isn’t new, but there are multiple ways to decrease the profitability of criminal data breaches.

It’s reported the stolen data of more than one million Australians have already been leaked – and more is expected.

Although many of us aren’t subject to APRA-regulation, we all have bank accounts, rely on the protection of insurance, and have retirement savings invested in superannuation. APRA’s Geoff Summerhayes shared some insights on the progress the regulators are making on cybersecurity for prudential needs in his speech to the CyBSA 2019 Cyber Breach Simulation.

After a string of Defence industry data breaches, senior public servant Greg Moriarty has opened up about government’s current thinking on the vulnerabilities to Australia’s security interests posed by growing local Defence industry.