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Survey reveals urgent need for prioritisation of network and security architecture transformation and adoption of a Zero Trust ‘Resilient by Design’ approach for cyber resilience strategies in the face of inevitable future attacks

• 75% of Australian organisations expect to experience a significant failure scenario in the next year.
• 97% of Australian IT leaders ‘believe’ their current cyber resilience measures are effective, yet ransomware attacks continue to rise and cost organisations billions of dollars per year.
• But only 32% say their cyber resilience strategy is up-to-date in preparation for modern attacks in response to the rise of AI
• Australian organisations must more closely examine their ability to respond to advanced cyber breaches, which allow threat actors to access systems, move laterally, and steal sensitive data.

Cybersecurity company Bitdefender has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program.

Acquisition Strengthens Bitdefender’s Position in Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, and Surrounding Countries to Deliver Advanced Cybersecurity Solutions for Business and Government Customers

GUEST OPINION:  Cloud environments, while offering unparalleled agility and scalability, are also a major source of risk exposure for organisations worldwide, with breaches ranging from misconfigurations to advanced cyberattacks. According to Tenable’s 2024 Cloud Security Outlook, 95% of organisations had experienced cloud-related breaches in the previous 18 months. New cloud-based attack vectors have combined with known risks to create threats across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. To add complexity, many organisations are plagued by siloed security tools and a shortage of cloud expertise. 

While organizations pour resources into advanced threat detection systems and cutting-edge security tools, they often miss fundamental elements that could make or break their cybersecurity defenses. These overlooked components create vulnerabilities that sophisticated attackers are all too happy to exploit.

GUEST INTERVIEW: iTWire talks to Google Cloud Security's Head of SecOps, Peter Bailey, and learns how Google's platform can help other organisations run their own security operations and monitor threat intelligence.

COMPANY NEWS:  Tenable, the exposure management company, today announced new data security posture management (DSPM) and artificial intelligence security posture management (AI-SPM) capabilities for Tenable Cloud Security, the actionable cloud security solution. By extending exposure management capabilities to cloud data and AI resources, Tenable Cloud Security reduces risk to two of the biggest emerging threats.

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. 

COMPANY NEWS:  Leading technology service provider Tecala today announced its expanded partnership with Netskope, a leader in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), with the appointment to Netskope’s Managed Service Provider (MSP) Program.

The global leader in cloud security launched a new point-of-presence in Equinix’s Perth data centre to support growing customer base

Zscaler Copilot, Advanced by NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Delivers Security Controls to Proactively Defend Against New Cyber Threats

COMPANY NEWS: Zscaler, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZS), a leader in cloud security, today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to accelerate AI-powered copilot technologies. Zscaler will leverage NVIDIA AI technologies to deliver new user experience and security-centric copilot services to the enterprise. The introduction of new AI capabilities, leveraging NVIDIA NIM inference microservices, NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails, and the NVIDIA Morpheus framework, will dramatically increase the ability to process data from the Zero Trust Exchange™ platform, further enhancing Zscaler copilot’s ability to proactively defend enterprises against cyber threats and simplify IT and network operations.

Collaboration advances zero trust strategies with Chrome Enterprise, Google Workspace and Google Security Operations without the need for legacy VPNs

COMPANY NEWS:  Zscaler, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZS), the leader in cloud security, has doubled down on their partnership with Google to help organisations simplify and strengthen their approach to Zero Trust. The integration with Chrome Enterprise will provide hundreds of millions of enterprise users with advanced threat and data protection without the need for legacy VPNs or requiring additional browsers. In addition, the integration of Zscaler with Google Workspace helps prevent the exfiltration of sensitive enterprise data from apps like Gmail and Drive. And the sharing of Zscaler’s rich security telemetry with Google Security Operations enables organisations to strengthen their security operations, all from the cloud. This work with Google further strengthens Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange platform.

There has been an increase in AI-driven phishing attacks in Australia with research revealing that Australia is within the top 10 countries alongside US, UK, India and Germany targeted by phishing scams.

COMPANY NEWS: Company launches revolutionary CNAPP with unique Offensive Security Engine that thinks like a hacker to move beyond the theoretical and deliver Verified Exploit Paths

With Cisco Secure Application on the Cisco Observability Platform, customers have more flexibility and choice when it comes to tackling their most difficult security challenges.

GUEST INTERVIEW: iTWire caught up with Jussi Wäre who runs Salesforce cloud protection for WithSecure. He told us about the company's heritage, its new, Australian-based security cloud and the state of the industry.

GUEST RESEARCH: New research released by cybersecurity company Illumio has found that in the last year, nearly half of all local data breaches originated in the cloud, and more than 60% of local security workers believe cloud security is lacking and poses a severe risk to their business operations.

GUEST INTERVIEW: iTWire met with Illumio's Head of Industry Solutions, Raghu Nandakumara, to discuss how Zero Trust Segmentation is the best solution to cloud security.

COMPANY NEWS:

• 31% of organisations experience DDoS attacks on a weekly basis
• 46% of organisations see web application attacks on a daily or weekly basis
• 66% of organisations would not be very surprised if their APIs were breached tomorrow

GUEST OPINION by Tim O’Neill, BitTitan Cybersecurity threats continue to evolve, with bad actors engaged in a perpetual mission to exploit network vulnerabilities. When we think we are doing enough, there’s always more to be done.