NDIA's Tips on sharing a Relatable Cyber Story

In an increasingly volatile cyber landscape, one of the biggest challenges facing security leaders is communicating risk and raising cyber awareness across an organisation. In order to increase resilience and maintain good cyber hygiene, it is necessary to convey the need for cyber securi…

Illuminating Tips on Risk Management

To illustrate the importance of cyber risk management, “let us to look at the fictional case study of a small business.” It might be fictional in that this particular business does not exist, but all the components of the case study are real and based in reality. The business is run by two entrepreneurs “who have a passion to move forward, producing beautiful and functional shoes.” They have been in business for a decade, with a “strong community of customers and they have wonderful relationships with their suppliers, their artists and producers.” As entrepreneurs, the two partners are always looking …

Case Study Highlights : Cyber Incident Response Strategy

Apart from just providing forecasts, the BOM also “supports flood activity, cyclones, fires and all other critical weather related activities.” In many ways, “we’re primarily a data organisation, and we support a lot of critical infrastructure as well.” As such, “our data is extremely important,” and this was proven in drastic ways when “we had a major cybersecurity attack in 2016.” It is unclear exactly who was responsible, but the attack was conducted with the use of remote malicious software aimed at mining data about “who we communicate with, but also who our customers and partners are. This set the …

2022's Top 3 Rising Cyber Threats

As Australia and New Zealand carry on the battle against Covid-19 and companies continue to move to a hybrid model of working, cybersecurity has become more important than ever. Cyber-attacks grew exponentially in 2021 and 2022 looks set for more of the same. Below are three rising threats companies are facing in the year ahead. Ransomware attacks continue to threaten the security of critical data across the globe. Cyber criminals have exploited the pandemic by carrying out more large scale phishing attacks, affecting businesses of all sizes across Australia and New Zealand. These attacks succeed largely due to human error, …

Practices to Bolster Your Fraud Intelligence Program to Prevent Corruption and Online Threats

Fraud, cybercrime, and other related issues are major hurdles that most organizations have to deal with. They take up precious business time and cost lots of money. The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) was setup to identify and deal with various types of fraud, and Jeff Thomson, the Senior Criminal Intelligence Analyst with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) at the CAFC, says that it was set up in partnership with the RCMP, the Ontario Provincial Police and the Competition Bureau of Canada. It is an exciting and unique place to work because we’re reducing fraud every day. They don’t do …

Cyber Culture & Awareness with CSCRC

While we need to adapt and respond quickly to cyber threats, when it comes to strengthening our own defences, we also need to think carefully about the ethical implications of modern technologies. It is a tricky and delicate balancing act. We do need to consider what should be done with technology, rather than just being swept up in what could be done, and the endless potential of the digital world we live in. Importantly, we also need to remember that trends and crystal ball gazing is vital but just getting the basics right is something that the government also needs …

Taking Cyber Security Seriously with Experts Across ANZ

This paper brings together a selection of the keynote presentations from experts across Australia and New Zealand as part of a Cyber Security Roadshow that was hosted in collaboration with PwC Australia and held mostly held virtually due to ongoing COVID-19 lockdowns in August 2021. Though each of the presenters came from different jurisdictions and a different perspective, it is remarkable that so many of their views were aligned and complimentary.

Securing the Cloud

““It’s important to note that we are provider agnostic. We will work with anybody who’s prepared to support the government to achieve its digital aspirations and ultimately its outcomes and results for New Zealanders.”” Adrienne Moor, Lead, The Government Cloud Programme, Department of Internal Affairs “The continued investment in New Zealand by global cloud providers is delivering strong and positive support for New Zealand’s digital maturity. At the same time, agencies have varying needs, so the need and the flexibility of the cloud solutions need to be able to reflect and enable what is required in their different contexts for …