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The celebration of the 15^th anniversary of World Backup Day serves as a reminder for individuals and businesses to reflect on their data protection strategies and ensure their data is adequately safeguarded. Quality backup is the linchpin of business resilience, shielding against data loss and ransomware threats, and ensuring swift recovery in the face of unforeseen challenges.

Illumio Inc., the breach containment leader, announced the appointment of Karl Van den Bergh as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). A proven technology and marketing executive, Van den Bergh brings over 25 years of leadership experience driving innovation, building market-leading brands, and accelerating cloud growth at global technology companies.

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Cyber security is a key concern in the modern business landscape. This is especially true for senior executives, who have nominated cyber security as the biggest worry keeping them up at night.

Identity security and access management provider CyberArk released new research earlier that found siloed approaches in securing humans and machines are driving identity-based attacks on the enterprise. To help make sense of it all CyberArk COO Eduarda Camacho spoke with iTWire.

GUEST RESEARCH:  Today Illumio released research findings from the Cloud Security Index: Redefine Cloud Security with Zero Trust Segmentation, which found that nearly half of IT and security leaders in Australia believe a cloud breach would make normal operations impossible in their organisations. The study also showed that almost all Australian organisations (97 percent) cite improving cloud security as a key priority over the next year. 

Honda Australia has paid a penalty of $18,780 after the competition watchdog, the ACCC, issued it with an infringement notice for an alleged breach of Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Information Sharing Scheme (MVIS scheme) information sharing requirements.

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Another day, another major company breached. The ransomware group Akira alleges to have stolen projects, contracts, and other confidential information from Panasonic. The electronics giant confirms a cybersecurity event has taken place, but denies any data has been taken.

In sobering news to CISOs everywhere, cybersecurity company Rapid7 has found the majority of mass compromise events come from zero-day exploits, and increasingly these are hitting devices at the edge. Additionally, other research finds a staggering number of preventable compromises are still occurring where MFA could, and should have been in place but was not.

The Federal Court has ordered Delta Building Automation Pty Ltd to pay a penalty of $1.5 million for attempting to rig a tender at the National Gallery of Australia, in proceedings brought by the competition watchdog, the ACCC.

As cyberattacks continue to disrupt operations, damage reputations and incur significant financial losses, the necessity for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) to actively participate in their cyber crisis communication strategies has never been more important. CISOs must be at the forefront of the communications response during a cybersecurity breach because their involvement can help mitigate further damage and restore trust in the organisation.

A member of BreachForums, a cyber crime forum, is offering customer and system information of 49 million Dell users, including some from Australia – and using an advisory from the company to prove that the data offered for sale is genuine.

GUEST OPINION:  Cold winds swept through offices of organisations, as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought charges against SolarWinds Corporation and its chief information security officer (CISO).

Telnyx Australia has paid $106,560 infringement notice after the Australian Communications and Media Authority found the telco failed to reduce scam SMS and prevent mobile number fraud between 2017 and 2022, breaching anti-scam and public safety obligations.

Simply moving to the cloud is so last decade. Today it’s all about maximising resilience and controlling costs with a multi-cloud strategy, with organisations increasingly spreading business functions across two or more cloud service providers.

ln an email to all affected customers, Dymocks has asserted that the breach did not occur in any computer system under their management.

Q: What's worse than your systems being breached? A: Being breached and not even knowing. In fact, every breach starts this way. Vectra shows iTWire how its product can alert you right at this critical moment.

Today, Dymocks wrote to all customers for whom they have stored private information warning of a possible recent breach.

The au Domain Administration, the organisation that administers the Australian domain namespace, says it has completed investigating claims of a breach of its site and says there is no evidence to back up such a claim.