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GUEST OPINION by Richard Sorosina, CTSO ANZ at Qualys:  Reflecting on the past year, we've witnessed a notable transformation in how organisations perceive and prioritise their cybersecurity strategies, largely driven by evolving perspectives on its significance, impact and value it has from a business perspective, compounded by the influence of government-led legislations that emphasize compliance.

Poll of attendees finds that additional authentication methods and security controls moving passwords to the background are reshaping password security

GUEST RESEARCH: Delinea, a leading provider of solutions that seamlessly extend Privileged Access Management (PAM), today announced results from a survey at the 2023 BlackHat USA Conference in Las Vegas last week, finding that password security continues to be a highly relevant topic even as cybersecurity strategies move toward a passwordless future. Of 100 business hall attendees polled, 54% said that “passwordless” is a viable concept while 79% agreed that passwords are evolving or becoming obsolete.

GUEST OPINION by Asjad Athick, Principal Security Specialist at Elastic: Whenever a major cybersecurity incident occurs, there are two things everyone asks. Could it have been prevented,and what did the victim of the attack do to minimise the damage? The left side of that equation, prevention, is critical and is often the focus of cybersecurity strategies. This is hardly surprising, with the Australian Cyber Security Centre receiving reports of a new cyber-attack every eight minutes – a rate that has been accelerating annually. 

COMPANY NEWS: According to new Venafi research, 65% of organisations have changed cyber strategy in response to war in Ukraine.

COVID-19 related threats are the single largest type of threat in the first half of this year, according to one security firm which says it blocked 8.8 million COVID-19 related threats, nearly 92% of which were spam delivered via emails.