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Device visibility and control vendor Forescout Technologies has appointed Rohan Langdon as regional director for Australia and New Zealand.

A new standalone pure-play cyber security company named McAfee has been reborn to build on its 30-year heritage following the successful closing of an investment by TPG and Intel Corporation.

Intel Security says cyberattacks are now on three fronts – on-premise, in the cloud, and through the Internet of Things. It identifies many hard-to-solve challenges.

A new McAfee survey reveals less than half of Australians take the proper security measures to protect their new Christmas gadgets – media streaming devices, drones, and smart home products join the list of devices that can compromise consumers’ security.

"We really need to treat IoT security with a sense of urgency."

Back in August 2010, Intel paid $7.68 billion for security firm McAfee. The ostensible reason was to harness McAfee’s technology to make x86 computing more secure.

Intel Security has revamped its product range around the "protect, detect, correct" mantra it debuted this time last year.

Intel Security — soon to return to the McAfee name — has used its Focus 16 conference to reveal its new branding.

We're attached to our phones, but we don't take the best care of the data they contain.

No, it is not "Please Explain" Pauline Hanson, Jackie Lambie with a gun, or Julie Bishop's steely stare although they may well be! McAfee’s Most Dangerous Celebrities study seeks out the riskiest, or sometimes the risquést Australian names, to search for online.

Intel is spinning out the security business it acquired from McAfee five years ago. The new company will be called McAfee.

Gary Denman is the man at the helm of Intel Security, joining the North Sydney-based team immediately and reporting to APAC vice-president Gavin Struthers with immediate effect.

Public Wi-Fi should be free and ubiquitous, but just as the various cities and businesses rush to provide it cyber criminals rush to compromise it.

Just when you thought the good guys were winning, along comes McAfee to rain on that parade. Makes you want to cut the Internet cord – and MacOS users need to be most concerned.

Trust is an Internet cornerstone, built on the belief that messages and files freely exchanged on the Internet are authentic. Foundational to that are hashing functions that transform messages and files into a short set of bits. But what happens if cyber criminals break these hashing functions?

Executives increasingly realise the importance of cybersecurity, but more needs to be done to maximise the effectiveness of the relationship between senior management and specialist staff.

Privacy and security, especially online seems to be overlooked by consumers and business alike. It is timely for Australians to reflect on, and take control of, such issues during Privacy Awareness Week.

Bet you use the same password for most of your online accounts and bet you have not changed it in recent memory.

Only 42% of cyber security professionals use shared threat intelligence, even though 97% believe it improves their organisation's security posture. You can’t beat the bad guys unless you help the good guys to win.

Security vendor Check Point Software Technologies has appointed David De Laine as regional managing director for Australia and New Zealand.