The Cyber Journey with Okta

The last couple of years since the start of the pandemic have seen an increase in the types and number of cyber security threats, but also in the brazenness of the attacks. According to the survey responses, over half of Australia’s public sector agencies are currently impleme…

Spotlight: Securonix on Consolidation Trends

Consolidation continues to be a positive trend in the User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) industry. SIEM and UEBA were, until relatively recently, separate technology areas, with many technology vendors active in one of those areas, but few active in both. Additionally, Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) technology was separate and had its own set of active vendors. These technologies really belong in a single platform, in order to increase the efficiency of the component parts and system as a whole, and to reduce the cost and complexity of those technologies for …

Spotlight: Next Big Thing with Okta

The biggest trend we are seeing is the use of technology to secure and protect access to systems and peoples data. Businesses are really aware of the threat cyber security issues pose to their organizations in both terms of reputational risk and actual commercial loss. Previously this would be handled as a lower lever technology function, but today, from the board through senior management, protecting systems and access is top of mind. We do not see this changing, in fact we see it as becoming even more important as new threats emerge. The next big thing is the evolution of …

Communicating Risk and Mitigating Threats in a Changing Cyber Security Landscape

“There is a direct financial benefit of good security practice at the customer interface, a rapid response program of how to deal with cyber events, and a quick clean-up action. Suddenly it becomes very clear that investment in your cyber security practice becomes financially understood and a viable action.

New Ways to look at Cyber Vigilance

The problem though, especially from a cyber security perspective, is that the organisation has already been set up so “we are building the house while we’re living in it.” This is especially challenging since because of COVID-19 “we’ve compressed seven years of technological investment into two.” The pandemic has meant that “the concept of work has changed forever,” whilst the impact has been “profound on all of us, individually, collectively and organisationally.” Yet at the end of the day, people and organisations are mostly concerned by what all the chaos and confusion means for them. The “culture of vigilance” needs …

5 Inter-Related Takeaways of Data & Risks

The last couple of years since the start of the pandemic have seen an increase in the types and number of cyber security threats, but also in the brazenness of the attacks. Some of the breaches have cost not just money, but reputational damage as well, whilst others have cost jobs. These …

Spotlight: Trellix's Best Performing Technology

Organisations find themselves unable to handle the dynamic and ever-changing threats. To keep pace with these dynamic attacks and to ensure greater visibility, control and ultimate peace of mind, organisations are on the lookout for more centralised visibility and quick resolution of their security issues. We must unleash smart and adaptive capabilities inherited from artificial intelligence and machine learning. New capabilities must touch all aspects of our architecture, process and skills. With the growing sophistication of threats, it’s easy to see why so many businesses are vulnerable to attacks and also why we have to shift our thinking, our approach …

Spotlight: Tap into Graph Technologies with Neo4j

We’re seeing very strong demand for knowledge graphs which are essentially an interconnected dataset enriched with meaning, and primed for complex decision making As complex data volumes grow, the types and composition of problems become very varied - an issue government departments and agencies (and the private sector) continue to grapple with. But we have the answer in the form of knowledge graphs that present new ways to use data to drive citizen outcomes. A graph data platform can efficiently model complex networks of entities and their interrelationships, and uncover patterns that are difficult to detect using traditional representations - …