Tuhina Goel, Director of Product Marketing at Nutanix, offers insight into the ever-growing threat ransomware attacks present. As the forms these attacks take diversify, businesses will have to take multi-faceted approaches to defend against them. Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that ransomware will cost its victims around US$265 billion annually by 2031. Businesses will face a new […]
Dynatrace has announced the findings of an independent global survey of 1,300 Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), including 100 in Australia, in large-size organisations. The research reveals that the speed and complexity created by using multicloud environments, multiple coding languages and open-source software libraries are making vulnerability management more difficult. Just over three-quarters of Australian CISOs (76%) say that […]
SentinelLabs has uncovered a cluster of activity by threat actor, Aoqin Dragon, dating at least as far back as 2013. Aoqin Dragon’s primary focus is assessed to be espionage, targeting government, education and telecommunication organisations in south-east Asia and Australia. The threat actor has a history of using document lures with pornographic themes to infect […]
Akamai Technologies, the cloud company that powers and protects life online, and Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand, a leading ICT services, solutions and products company have announced they have entered a strategic relationship to assist organizations in Australia to defend against the threat of ransomware and cybersecurity attacks affecting critical infrastructure and digital assets. This […]
Email security and cyber-resilience company, Mimecast, has announced it is continuing its expansion in APAC by establishing an office in Singapore as a regional hub for focusing on south-east Asia. The company has appointed Stanley Hsu as its Regional Vice President, to help improve the cybersecurity posture of organisations and supply chains, in this expansion […]
Macquarie Telecom Group has announced it is partnering with Australian satellite communication provider, Blacktree Technology, to deliver defence-ready data colocation services as both organisations commit further to protecting Australia’s defence industry against cyberattacks. Headquartered in Perth, Blacktree Technology provides specialised communication systems for military and commercial use cases across Australia, Asia, Europe and the US. […]
The 12th global edition of the World Cyber Security Summit – ASEAN will virtually gather over 350 attendees to discuss the future adoption of cyber security solutions, new-age technologies to protect businesses from cyberattacks, and how South East Asia’s tech infrastructure will be boosted into the new baseline. Notable speakers include Dato’ Dr Haji Amirudin […]
Acronis, a global leader in cyberprotection with dual headquarters in Schaffhausen, Switzerland and Singapore, will be the Official Cyber Protection Partner of the iconic round-the-world sailing competition, The Ocean Race. The partnership will be supported by Ingram Micro, a global distributor of innovative technology products and services, as the Official #CyberFit Partner, in line with […]
It has been reported that Japanese consumer electronics giant, Panasonic, has disclosed a security breach wherein an unauthorised third-party broke into its network and potentially accessed data from one of its file servers. ‘As the result of an internal investigation, it was determined that some data on a file server had been accessed during the […]
After being the target of a cyberattack, one of the world’s leading airlines, Cathay Pacific, made the decision to ramp up its security defence and improve its overall cybersecurity posture. YC Chan, Head of Infrastructure Engineering at Cathay Pacific, outlines the organisation’s process of implementing micro-segmentation for the right level of protection for its most […]
