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Majority of organisations breached over the last year had personally identifiable information (PII) compromised in ANZ, but most have not yet modified their data management policies, according to the findings of Cybersecurity and PII Report, which was commissioned by ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Rajesh Ganesan is vice president of products at ManageEngine, the IT management division of Zoho Corporation. He is a part of the leadership team overseeing product strategy and direction for the overall suite. He's been at the company since its inception and so is well placed to tell us how and why it came to be.

The challenge of securing customer information has never been more apparent. Organisations are failing to appropriately protect their customers’ data, leading to financial loss, reputational loss, and legal issues. Securing personally identifiable information (PII) is especially challenging for larger enterprises as they often store significant volumes of data across multiple repositories, which numerous stakeholders use.

The next instalment of the Medibank Group data breach has arrived, with the company confessing on Thursday that patient information from My Home Hospital had also been accessed by an attacker.

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has released the latest Notifiable Data Breaches Report, covering July to December 2021. The report shows 464 data breach notifications, up 6%, with almost one in five being due to somebody emailing the wrong person.

GUEST OPINION: Australia is progressing steadily with an open banking rollout. The Big Four banks – CBA, Westpac, ANZ and National Australia Bank – introduced open banking in July 2021, and other banks and financial services are expected to follow in 2022. According to many fintechs, however, the introduction is going slower than expected, and they are pushing financial markets to open their banking services online by signing additional data holders.

An enterprise network was always designed to keep the proverbial bad guys out, but with the rise of cloud computing and remote working the network's perimeter has shifted so much that the entire Internet is the perimeter. Today’s modern businesses need both the agility of the public cloud with the security of a private network. Here’s where NordLayer, from NordVPN, can help.

Indian outsourcing company HCL Technologies — formerly known as Hindustan Computers Limited — has exposed personal information of employees, plaintext passwords for new hires reports on installations of customer infrastructure, and web applications for managing personnel on an unprotected domain.

Whatever the reason, the majority of Joe and Jane Averages (or Bruce and Shazza in Australia) believe that law enforcement and national interest should prevail over personal privacy.