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Security Incidents in Critical Infrastructure Grew by 668 Percent Since 2022

COMPANY NEWS: Global cybersecurity company Forescout Technologies, Inc. has announced key findings from its “2024 Threat Roundup” report, providing analysis of the evolving threat landscape.

Cybersecurity company BlueVoyant has announced the appointment of Rob Joyce as an independent director on its board.

GUEST OPINION:  Semperis Cyber Predictions -  Focusing on the rise of attacks against Active Directory, critical infrastructure and more.

GUEST OPINION:  Claroty has unveiled its cybersecurity predictions for 2025 highlighting significant developments in the protection of Operational Technology (OT) and critical infrastructure sectors.

COMPANY NEWS:  PMT Security, a leader in the Australian security industry since 1979, has officially launched a new division dedicated to providing comprehensive security solutions for data centres. The new Data Centre and Critical Infrastructure Solutions division aims to meet the growing need for advanced, reliable, and compliant security infrastructure in Australia’s expanding data centre landscape. With the growing demands of SaaS, cloud solutions and AI, the data centre market is expanding exponentially. The need to provide an end-to-end solution for securing the next wave of the Data Centres is an essential element of planning and design, to be considered alongside critical services such as power and cooling.  

Tesserent has issued its predictons for 2025 with the key focus on social engineering and artificial intelligence.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Aus3C's recent Oh Behave! cybersecurity report has thrown light on a troubling trend that shows younger generations are giving up on cybersecurity best practices. We spoke to Matthew Salier, CEO of the Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre, to find out what's changed and how things can be fixed.

Operational technology (OT) and IoT security company Nozomi Networks has appointed Kevin Isaac as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

Network anomalies and attacks were the most prevalent threat to operational technology (OT) and internet of things (IoT) environments, according to the latest security report from Nozomi Networks.

Zurich Financial Services Australia and Mandala Partners today released Australia’s “first Climate Risk Index” for Australia’s national energy generation sector.

Gas and electricity provider Jemena has chosen the Salt Security API Protection Platform to protect its critical gas and electricity infrastructure.

GUEST OPINION by Raghu Nandakumara, Head of Industry Solutions, Illumio: From energy and water supply to transport and healthcare, there are multiple industries that fall under the banner of critical infrastructure that not only function as private organisations but are also essential to the fabric of our society and economy. Disruption to critical infrastructure providers can have a huge impact on a national or even international scale – and organised cybercriminal groups are preying on this weakness.

Autonomous cybersecurity platform company SentinelOne Singularity has announced completion of the IRAP assessment for its XDR Platform, enabling it to work with the Australian government to improve its cybersecurity posture.

Scaled ransomware attacks against manufacturing and geopolitical tensions brought increased attention to the industrial cyber threat landscape

In 2022, breakthrough evolution in the development of malware targeting industrial control systems (ICS), scaled ransomware attacks against manufacturing, and geopolitical tensions brought increased attention to the industrial cyber threat landscape, according to the 2022 Dragos ICS/OT Cybersecurity Year in Review.

Cloudflare has announced a new initiative to provide Zero Trust security at no cost to small and medium critical infrastructure organisations worldwide. The new program is named Project Safekeeping and aims to protect under-resourced organisations that provide a critical community benefit but are at high risk for cyberattacks.

GUEST OPINION by Lani Refiti, ANZ Regional Director of cybersecurity firm Claroty: The Australian Government has recently announced a team comprising 100 of the best cybersecurity experts in Australia to track down the people responsible for recent attacks on Optus and Medibank, forming a new partnership with the Australian Federal Police and Signals Directorate.

Global networking giant Cisco has tied up with the University of Canberra to address the shortage of cyber security skills, with the focus to be on defence and critical infrastructure.

The Australian Parliament passed the Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure Protection) Act 2022 earlier this year with mandatory periods for critical infrastructure cyber security incidents to be reported, but what does it mean for you in practice? CyberArk solutions engineering manager Andrew Slavkovic spoke to iTWire to explain.

Fortinet has appointed Michael Murphy to the role of head of operational technology and critical infrastructure for Australia.

A second tranche of legislation on critical infrastructure is likely to be passed by the Senate this week after it was given the go-ahead, with minor tweaks suggested by a committee.