Displaying items by tag: Data breaches

Cybersecurity and compliance company Proofpoint Inc. today has expanded its global partnership with Microsoft that leverages Microsoft Azure’s robust AI capabilities and “trusted cloud infrastructure to host Proofpoint’s future innovations and scale AI-powered threat and data protection”.

GUEST OPINION:  Australia’s healthcare sector is consistently targeted by cybercriminals, having reported the highest number of data breaches from all Australian sectors over the last five years, according to the OAIC Notifiable Data Breaches Reports. The risk of ransomware specifically is increasing, with the recent analysis of a global sample of reported ransomware attacks showing that over one in five attacks (21%) was targeted at healthcare organisations in 2023/24, up from 18% the year prior.

Data security and analytics provider Varonis has acquired next-generation database activity monitoring (DAM) provider Cyral.

COMPANY NEWS  New KnowBe4 white paper “Effective Security Awareness Training Really Does Reduce Breaches” finds 65% decrease in breach likelihood for organisations with robust security training programs

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:  Financial organisations are leaving themselves significantly exposed to risk in the cloud, according to research from Illumio.

Fifty-one percent (51%) of employees were disciplined, 27% voluntarily left the organisation and 39% were fired following their involvement with a phishing incident, according to research undertaken by threat intelligence company Egress.

GUEST RESEARCH:  Generative AI (GenAI) and AI will significantly transform industries in the future, according to 81% of Australian and New Zealand respondents to new research.

GUEST OPINION:  As the number and sophistication of cyberattacks continues to grow, increasing numbers of organisations are evaluating how much protection they can get from cyber insurance.

GUEST OPINION:  Reflecting on 2023, clearly it was another pivotal year in security technology. Cybersecurity leaders continued to face an ever expanding and evolving threat landscape, an ongoing proliferation of AI tools, and advancing migration to hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure All while contending with the highest rate of data breaches to date.

Despite a number of high-profile data breaches and continuing concerns around cyber-security, nearly two thirds of organisations don’t believe their board has sufficient understanding of current data governance challenges, according to the Governance Institute of Australia.

GUEST OPINION: The healthcare industry has been transforming radically over the past decade with the common goal of improving the way health care is delivered to patients.

GUEST OPINION: Data breaches are an unfortunate reality in today's digital landscape. Understanding the implications of these breaches is critical in regulated industries like healthcare, finance and education.

Australian SMBs say they are prioritising data privacy in the wake of high-profile breaches at Medibank, Optus and Telstra, but action has not necessarily followed awareness, according to research by SaaS provider Zoho.

Risk intelligence company Flashpoint has published its July Cyber Threat Intelligence Index which shows Australia was in the top 10 countries for ransomware attacks last month.

COMPANY NEWS: RSA, the security-first identity leader, released its inaugural ID IQ Report today. Using results from the RSA ID IQ Quiz, the report assesses and baselines users' identity security knowledge, capabilities, and perceptions regarding the role of AI in cybersecurity. Results from the 2023 RSA ID IQ Report reveal that:

A survey conducted for Hitachi Vantara has found that 76% of large Australian companies are overwhelmed by the amount of data they manage and 78% are concerned their current infrastructure will be unable to scale to meet upcoming demands.

Last year, 4,518 data breaches were reported globally with threat actors exposing or stealing 22.62 billion credentials and personal records, ranging from account and financial information to emails and Social Security numbers, a new security report has revealed.