Industry Insider

Imperva has new data that shows cyberattacks against Australia in 2022 has grown in both frequency and severity at a rate that outpaces the global average.

In the past three weeks, three cyber attacks resulted in identity leaks that have sent ripples around Australia. Has the triple-A of cyber security (Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting) failed? 

One: There are different understandings of the terminology within the same organisation

Medicare has admitted that customer data, including medical claims information, is included in 200GB of data that has been obtained by a hacker. In a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange, Medibank said it had been contacted by a criminal who provided a sample of records for 100 customer policies.

Not all MFA solutions are the same, with recent studies demonstrating simple ways to subvert more common methods which are used to lodge cyber-attacks. Furthermore, people also prefer different MFA options depending on their needs and level of tech savviness. So what are the options currently available, their pros and cons, and who are they suited for?

Micro Focus has released the findings of the 2022 Digital Challenges in the Public Sector study, created in partnership with Omdia, which examines the common technology trends facing the Australian public sector. While it was revealed technology investment is increasing across Australia, with more than 50 per cent of respondents anticipating an IT spending rise during the next 18 months, the public sector is facing a perfect storm driven by skills shortages, increased demand, and capabilities of legacy systems. 

One result of the widespread enterprise adoption of Microsoft 365 is the need to move users from one instance of the suite to a new or different instance: a tenant-to-tenant (T2T) migration. These are high-stakes projects, and downtime during the migration or an incomplete migration can seriously impact the business. On the plus side, organisations are finding that an advanced third-party migration tool will mitigate the business risk.

Your hard work is finally paying off: after months of planning, preparing, and piloting, you are finally ready to launch your new Microsoft 365 (M365), Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, or other collaboration platforms. Your team is on its way to better digital collaboration and streamlined productivity. Once it’s implemented, you can finally relax, right?

A new global survey that shows that organizations are largely unprepared for ransomware attacks on their data stored in SaaS platforms. Conducted by Odaseva, an enterprise data protection platform for Salesforce, it also found that only half of organizations impacted by an attack on SaaS Data could fully recover.

Nearly 80% of companies that are considered as "digital disrupters" gained market share over the last two years, according to new research by Bain & Company. Bain's fifth annual Benchmarking Survey of Corporate Digital Transformation shows that digital disrupters put "digital" at the very top of their agendas, yet even they are having to adapt to a fresh wave of emerging technologies that are enabling new competitors and business models.