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 […]

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 […]

With leading businesses and military groups throughout APAC under attack from cybercriminals, Dave Russell, Vice President of Enterprise Strategy, Veeam Software, says business leaders must be at the forefront of their company’s security. A few years ago Cathay Pacific suffered a lapse in data security affecting the personal information of an estimated 9.4 million people. […]

The State Library of Victoria, Australia’s oldest library, has entrusted the support and maintenance of its Oracle E-Business software to Rimini Street. Rimini Street is also providing the library with its Advanced Database Security (ADS) and Advanced Application Middleware Security (AAMS) solutions, enabling an approach to security that can block vulnerabilities in hours – unlike […]

Savvy cyberattackers have turned their attention to the open source software supply chain as developers strive to innovate faster than ever, resulting in vulnerabilities. Shabir Bhat, Regional Sales Director, Middle East, Checkmarx, tells us why organisations must consider taking a proactive approach to defending against these attacks to ensure business as usual. How and why […]

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 […]

Veracode, a leading global provider of Application Security Testing (AST) solutions, has announced its Continuous Software Security Platform, which seamlessly embeds application security into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). The platform streamlines workflows by bringing together development and security teams to provide a broad understanding of risk, remediation guidance and progress at every stage of […]

Modern workforces require security solutions that not only keep the business and its data secure, but which also ‘enable’ rather than halt productivity. Mike Schuricht, VP of Product Management, Security Service Edge (SSE), Forcepoint, talks us through some of the key security challenges facing organisations and outlines how Forcepoint ONE helps to tackle these. What […]

New solution opens the Qualys Cloud Platform allowing security teams to swiftly respond to zero-day threats and conduct compliance audits of custom applications. Qualys, a leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, has unveiled Qualys Custom Assessment and Remediation, opening its Cloud Platform to give security architects access to custom scripts that […]

A new study by Juniper Research has found operators will generate US$27 billion from the termination of SMS messages related to Multi-Factor Authentication in 2022; an increase from US$25 billion in 2021. The research predicts this 5% growth will be driven by increased pressure on digital service providers to offer secure authentication that reduces risk […]