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GUEST OPINION: For cyber criminals, the economics of a ransomware attack are overwhelmingly in their favour. Last year, according to ESG, 79% of organisations reported a ransomware attack, with Ponemon's 2021 Cost of a Data Breach report estimating that the average cost of a breach is AU$7.3 million. The threat is omnipresent and the number of victims continues to rise.

GUEST OPINION: Data noise is the bane of the data centre industry because it is every technology support team's nightmare to be constantly bombarded with wrong, repetitive or trivial information from monitoring tools, or regularly receiving alerts irrelevant to their job function.

Reports indicate companies with more than a thousand employees typically have 70 security products from 35 different vendors - resulting in alert fatigue as security teams try to discern what matters. iTWireTV spoke with Secureworks chief sales officer Ian Bancroft and Secureworks director and GM APAC Demetrios Georgiou about extended detection and response and how it can make a huge difference in identifying and responding to security issues.

GUEST OPINION: Australia's recent budget ushers in the nation's 'biggest ever' cybersecurity spend, with $10 billion pledged to see electronic spy agency Australian Signals Directory (ASD) double in size and ramp up its ability to launch offensive cyber operations.

WEBINAR EVENT INVITE: LogicMonitor, the cloud-based IT infrastructure monitoring and intelligence platform, is hosting a Webinar on May 27^th at 2pm AEST, aimed at educating IT administrators, managers and leaders about IT and network alerts.