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For Australian CIOs, digital transformation is firmly embedded into their organisation’s formula for success, and the focus in their role is shifting to reflect this change. “With their extensive knowledge of how the business operates, they’re now seen as the agent of change management, the guardian of data excellence, head of business intelligence and the governor of ethics and ESG [environmental, social and governance],” Louise Francis research director at IDC ANZ tells CIO Australia. Digital…

By Viktoria Sokurenko, CMO of Ukrainian start-up X-ray OPSEC (Operational Security) is a term used by US intelligence to describe the analytical process of preventing enemy access to information threatening the secrecy and security of the mission. The private sector also uses OPSEC as a safeguard against collecting confidential information by competitors and attackers. In this article, we will talk about the basic measures for personal data protection: How to find and delete compromising information…

Authored by Lakshya Mathur An LNK file is a Windows Shortcut that serves as a pointer to open a file, folder, or application. LNK files are based on the Shell Link binary file format, which holds information used to access another data object. These files can be created manually using the standard right-click create shortcut option or sometimes they are created automatically while running an application. There are many tools also available to build LNK…

Organizations face three emerging threats that compromise identities, exploit the use of accomplices or insiders and evade current detection and defenses, according to security researcher Oliver Rochford. During his insight stage talk at Infosecurity Europe, Rochford, security evangelist at Securonix, said that a growing number of criminal groups are acting as initial access brokers (IABs). These specialist groups form part of the “cybercrime as a service” economy on the dark web, focused on gaining access…

The Global Threat Landscape is Novel and Requires a Novel Response From Russia to China to South Korea, the global threat landscape continues to mature, often confounding the assumptions of those who must defend against the attacks. Novel techniques are the norm, such as criminals posing as job seekers to infiltrate networks or attacking non-obvious networks. This results in attacks that are harder to predict, adversaries that are harder to detect, and breaches that are…