Thales has announced an agreement to acquire OneWelcome, a European leader in the fast-growing market of Customer Identity and Access Management, for a total consideration of €100 million. OneWelcome’s strong digital identity lifecycle management capabilities will complement Thales’s existing Identity services (secure credential enrollment, issuance and management, Know Your Customer etc) in order to offer […]
A new study from Juniper Research has found cumulative merchant losses to online payment fraud globally between 2023 and 2027 will exceed US$343 billion. As a comparison, this equates to over 350% of Apple’s reported net income in the 2021 fiscal year, showing the massive extent of these losses. Online payment fraud includes losses across […]
In its ninth report, Cloudflare has uncovered evidence of an evolution of cyberthreats. With an upsurge of DDoS attacks of over 600% since the last quarter, new statistics of application-layer and network-layer targets revealed the vulnerabilities of online media companies, telecommunications and Internet technology industries. Cloudflare, the security, performance and reliability company helping to build […]
A report from SANS Security Awareness has revealed that human risk remains the biggest threat to organizations’ cybersecurity. The SANS 2022 Security Awareness Report highlights that with an unprecedented number of employees now working in hybrid or fully remote environments, compounded by an increase in cyberthreats and an overwhelmed workforce, there has never been a […]
New research conducted by Barracuda Networks, a leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, has found that HTML attachments are by far the most used by cybercriminals for malicious purposes. The company’s analysis of millions of email attachments over the past month revealed that one in five HTML attachments were malicious. By comparison, a meagre 0.03% […]
Steve Singer, Regional Vice President and ANZ Country Manager, Zscaler, tells us completing the complex IT integrations required by mergers and acquisitions (M&A) processes is fraught with difficulties but many of these issues can be addressed by applying Zero Trust security principles. There has been a spate of corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) undertaken worldwide […]
The 2022 Thales Cloud Security Report reveals that 45% of businesses have experienced a cloud-based data breach or failed audit in the past 12 months, up 5% from the previous year, raising greater concerns regarding protecting sensitive data from cybercriminals. We asked three industry experts how organizations can ensure they improve their cloud security. Brian […]
In 2016, the EU adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – a law introduced to ensure data privacy and protection. Member States were given two years to ensure it was fully implementable in their countries by May 2018. Four years on and organisations are introducing solutions to better manage GDPR requirements and ensure they […]
Aden Axen, Cloud Services Manager at Somerville, tells us the factors that used to trigger Business Continuity arrangements are no longer the biggest concern for Australian organizations. Business Continuity and business security used to be two distinct and siloed processes. However, the evolving threat landscape is a sign that organizations must change their mindset and […]
Research from Dragos has highlighted that the industrial sector attracted increased unwanted attention from adversaries last year. With attackers continuing to up the ante and the consequences of an attack proving potentially devastating, defenders must review and prioritise their OT security strategies. Seth Enoka, Principal Industrial Incident Responder, Dragos, talks us through the research and […]
