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GUEST OPINION by Tony Jarvis, VP of Enterprise Security, Asia Pacific and Japan, Darktrace: In 2023, Energy One, one of Australia’s largest energy suppliers, was hit by a cyberattack targeting its corporate systems.

COMPANY NEWS: Darktrace, a global leader in cybersecurity AI, announced the launch of its new service offering, Darktrace Managed Detection & Response (MDR). The service combines its best-in-class detection and response capabilities spanning across the enterprise, with the expertise of its global analyst team. This powerful combination augments internal security teams with AI-powered threat containment and expert alert management across Darktrace environments, allowing them to focus resources on more strategic security efforts, like improving cyber resilience.

GUEST OPINION: Consumers are helpless when trusting personal data with businesses. Those businesses often use third-party platforms to store, manage or process the data, with little transparency to the consumer on how or where that data is being used.

GUEST OPINION: Last year the Federal Budget included considerable investment in the technology sector, specifically cyber security with the release of the National Cyber Security Strategy. We would have liked to seen the Government maintain this momentum, and take continued steps to help organisations protect themselves and the people they serve, such as by continuing to invest in training of cyber security professionals and educating end-users about cyber security.

GUEST OPINION: We’re all familiar with QR codes. Go to a café, and chances are they’ll have a QR code on their menu to make ordering seamless. Many products now feature a QR code on their packaging to make finding information about what you’re buying easier. In fact, Juniper Research has predicted that the number of QR Code users will exceed 2.2 billion in 2025, increasing from 1.5 billion in 2020.

• New innovations in Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform provide more complete visibility across the enterprise to eliminate alert fatigue and illuminate security gaps freeing security teams’ to proactively improve cyber resilience.
• Platform launches in an era of increasing AI-augmented threats, with new research finding that 74% of security professionals believe these threats are already having an impact, but 60% report their organization is unprepared.

COMPANY NEWS: Darktrace, a global leader in cybersecurity AI, today introduced the Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform™. The platform includes Darktrace’s existing best-in-class security products supplemented by a set of new industry-first innovations and features, including for email and operational technology (OT).

Rapid shifts in the cyber security landscape and new techniques adopted by attackers attempting to sidestep traditional defences are revealed in the 2023 End of Year threat report from Cyber security artificial intelligence provider Darktrace.

GUEST OPINION: Following the Federal Government's announcement of its new cyber strategy, executives share their opinion and viewpoints on how organisatons can bolster their cyber defences against threats.

GUEST OPINION: The Australian government has joined international allies and partners in pledging not to pay ransom demands related to cyber-attacks at the Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI) Summit in San Francisco yesterday.

New Darktrace/Cloud solution now available via the AWS Marketplace; provides a real-time, architecture-based view of cloud environments so businesses can easily and quickly act against evolving threats and misconfigurations, and strengthen compliance.

GUEST OPINION: Over the last year artificial intelligence and machine learning have entered mainstream conversation. No longer is discussion around it restricted to AI industry experts, it’s being talked about and used in innovative ways, by organisations and people alike.

COMPANY NEWS: Darktrace today announces the launch of Darktrace Heal, its AI-enabled product to help businesses more effectively prepare for, rapidly remediate, and recover from cyber-attacks.

COMPANY NEWS: In response to growing use of generative AI tools, Darktrace today announces the launch of new risk and compliance models to help its 8,400 customers around the world address the increasing risk of IP loss and data leakage. These new risk and compliance models for Darktrace Detect and Respond make it easier for customers to put guardrails in place to monitor, and when necessary, respond to activity and connections to generative AI and large language model (LLM) tools.

GUEST OPINION: Darktrace head of threat analysis Toby Lewis has released a statement discussing the implications of the recent ransomware attack on the MOVEit platform.

Cybercriminals will continue to innovate, finding new ways to attack businesses and critical infrastructure as a way of making money, according to security firm Darktrace in response to a new advisory warning posted by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC).

The united front being shown by Australia, New Zealand, US, UK and Canada with regard to TikTok is noteworthy with the limiting of the use of TikTok on government devices, according to Oakley Cox, Analyst Technical Director of security firm Darktrace.

Darktrace closes its largest deal to date with a critical infrastructure organization to get ahead of state-sponsored attacks and support digital transformation

COMPANY NEWS: Darktrace, a global leader in cyber security AI,today announces availability of Darktrace PREVENT/OT, a product that identifies the paths adversaries may take to attempt to disrupt the operations of critical infrastructure.

GUEST OPINION by Tony Jarvis, Director of Enterprise Security, APJ, Darktrace : We can clearly see that in Australia cyber criminals are no longer just a subject for the tech industry, with so many data breaches and ransomware being reported and announced every week. It is becoming mainstream and of great concern.

In the midst of data breaches impacting Australia, cybersecurity provider Darktrace says it is receiving strong demand from the market for its new Darktrace Prevent product family as organisations seek to proactively prevent cyber attacks, rather than waiting for breaches to happen.

GUEST OPINION: According to the Information Systems Consortium, there are approximately 2.7 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs around the world today. There are simply not enough people with the required cyber specialisms to carry out the work in this high-growth sector. Australia’s 2020 Cyber Security Strategy highlighted this issue, and the Government committed millions of dollars via the Cyber Security National Workforce Growth Program to address the skills shortage.