Australian Cyber Pros Confess To Growing Job Stress

Australian Cyber Pros Confess To Growing Job Stress

Sixty-four percent of Australian cybersecurity professionals say their role is more stressful now than it was five years ago, according to a new survey by global professional association ISACA. The 2024 State of Cybersecurity, which surveyed 1,800 global cyber professionals, found that 85% of local respondents blamed stress on an increasingly complex threat landscape, compared with 81% of global respondents. The report also revealed: 48% of Australians cited a low budget as a factor, compared…

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2024 Exposed: The Alarming State of Australian Data Breaches

2024 Exposed: The Alarming State of Australian Data Breaches

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s latest Notifiable Data Breaches Report revealed a rapid rise nationwide in notifiable data breaches in the first six months of 2024 — a 9% increase when compared with the final six months of 2023 and the highest number of notifications since 2020. The report, released in September, showed that recent data breaches, including the beach of medical prescription service MediSecure affecting 12.9 million Australians, have prompted a strong…

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