Voting in the United States carries a huge privacy cost: states give away or sell voters' personal information to anyone who wants it. In this era of content micro-targeting, rampant misinformation and identity theft schemes, this trade in voters' personal data is both dangerous and irresponsible.
Australian police have charged a woman in the theft of AU$450,000 (US$318,000) worth of the virtual currency XRP, also known as Ripple, in one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts from a single victim. The case highlights how basic security messaging on protecting cryptocurrency isn't getting through.
Many organizations are undergoing a transformation to support digital platforms and stay competitive; but in order to maintain security, they have to ensure that access to these platforms is limited and that security remains a priority. New vulnerabilities to cybercrime are being introduced through hybrid...
Security teams are under intense pressure to not miss attack signals. Separating the signal from the noise is difficult. But few organizations have carte blanche to hire large teams. How can you build a tight and effective security group? Ben Chung, CISO of NTT Communications ICT Solution, will talk about how to...
After several years of discussion, Australia's Parliament passed a mandatory breach notification/disclosure law in February. It requires organisations to notify affected consumers and regulators, ensuring transparency in an era of ever-increasing cyberattacks. Although large organisations generally follow the advice...
The financial risks to organizations from data breaches come from a variety of angles, from share price hits to class-action lawsuits to fines from regulators to reputational damage. As such, the insurance industry has jumped full steam into cyber. Larger insurers are already helping companies spot and mitigate...
While the Internet of Things is offering new ways for enterprises to collect data to improve their businesses, it has a dark side: security. Over the past year, IoT devices have been used for devastating distributed denial-of service attacks. IoT manufacturers have been blamed for poor security controls, and companies...
Many organisations understand that in today's enterprise technology landscape, the traditional network perimeter approach to defending against cyber threats is not enough to ensure a cyber resilient environment. This has given rise to the concept of identity being a key focal point in any cybersecurity strategy. Ian...
Too many organizations continue to address breach response from a reactive mode - having a crude disaster-recovery plan in place in case something "does" happen, rather than accepting that something "will" happen and proactively preparing for it. In this session, a panel of legal, technical and law-enforcement experts...
When IT isn't the main focus of your business, the perspective on security changes, but the threats are often the same. It's often not fiscally feasible to expend resources "hunting" threats, which makes obtaining the right kind of threat intelligence crucial. Catherine Buhler, CISO of BlueScope Steel, will discuss...
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