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The 2020s is set to see a rapid growth of fintech and neobanking offerings in Australia. Unquestionably, there are many positives to this trend, but there will also be an increase in cybersecurity challenges to accompany it. While accelerated collaboration and sandboxing between traditional businesses and fintechs will drive innovation and competitive advantage, the start-up culture that underwrites this progress will prioritise growth and enhance capabilities over cybersecurity. Unfortunately, this puts their clients, their companies,…

By Michael Yehoshua, VP Marketing, SCADAfence Ransomware Works That’s the simplest way to explain why incidents of ransomware attacks have been growing steadily for the past two years — with no end in sight. The number of ransomware attacks has jumped by 350 percent since 2018, the average ransom payment increased by more than 100 percent, downtime is up by 200 percent and the average cost per incident is on the rise, according to a…

Following a successful hybrid event in 2021 that saw more than 6,000 in-person, and more than 14,500 virtual attendees, Black Hat USA returns in 2022 to the Mandalay Bay Convention Centre in Las Vegas, Nevada. Now in its 25th year, this year’s event has three key components, each equally unmissable, namely these are Trainings, Briefings, and The Business Hall. Black Hat USA 2022 will open with four days of Trainings on the 6th of August,…

When most people speak of any city government, they often mention words like “Bureaucratic”,“Behind the times”, and “Slow.”  This is especially true when considering cybersecurity initiatives.  However, a small town in Texas is changing that view.  Seguin, Texas, which was once the smallest Texas city to have a full-time cybersecurity employee, was the only government entity to be named in the CSO50 2022 Awards. The CSO50 awards recognize security projects that demonstrate outstanding thought leadership…

Digital transformation has continued to gain space across public and private sectors. As IT is the fuel for digitisation, enterprise technology leaders are increasingly being sought after by companies. CIO Australia consistently tracks the moves of IT leaders. Here’s an update on the moves of Australian IT leaders starting from June 2022. If you want to share your next move with us, please message our A/NZ editor. July 2022 Stuart Hildyard departs from LaTrobe University…

Tu Ora Compass Health CIO Alistair Vickers on the evolving role of technology in healthcare, allowing for flexibility in any transformation plan, and the importance of creating new pathways for people into IT. Watch this episode: <![CDATA[]]> Source link

By Ani Chaudhuri, CEO, Dasera Sales have SalesOps. Marketing has MarketingOps. Engineering and Security have DevOps, DevSecOps, and SecOps. It’s high time for Data Governance to have DataGovOps. Revisiting Data Governance First, let’s make sure everyone’s on the same page with respect to Data Governance.  According to Google Cloud, Data Governance is (with added emphasis): …everything you do to ensure data is secure, private, accurate, available, and usable. It includes the actions people must take,…