Cybersafety stories

Waikato DHB was warned its IT security was severely compromised months before a massive ransomware attack that brought Waikato Hospital to its knees.>>

Data breaches and cyber-attacks are not singular events. They are an ongoing process with multiple steps.>>

Even with education and phishing tests, users continue to hand over legitimate logins to attackers, who in turn exploit them with a high degree of success.>>

Just like a compass, regularly reviewing the threat model keeps the CTI teams IR’s pointed in the right direction over time.>>

Recent cyber-events highlight the risks confronting enterprises that depend on a single vendor for their infrastructure, tools, and security.>>

The guiding principle of a zero trust security model is that no-one in an organisation — from a new recruit to the CISO — is granted intrinsic trust to access the network.>>

Mainframe-reliant organisations should maintain a robust security posture to ensure that data remains secure.>>

Extended detection and response (XDR) has become the white-hot name in the security world, writes Anomali senior VP and GM Stree Naidu.>>

The company has completed a ‘significant architectural redesign’ of its security in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).>>

In Techday's third and final IT Jam with BeyondTrust, we speak to Marc Maiffret, who is the company's CTO.>>

Businesses should prioritise utilisation of readily available authentication technologies to prevent the ongoing phishing threat.>>

The MDR service offers customers remotely delivered security operation centre capabilities, which can be used to respond to threats.>>

The two new tools will give customers access to ‘comprehensive prevention, detection, and response protection across the attack surface’.>>

Identity and access management are poised to take centre stage in the next phase of corporate security revamp, writes Entrust security director for APJ James Cook.>>

Given the massive amounts of data enterprises hold, it may seem like an impossible task to prove what data was accessed and by whom. It isn’t. >>

PAM can offer insight into risks that may be adjusted depending on the threat landscape, writes ThycoticCentrify chief security scientist Joseph Carson.>>

WatchGuard Technologies is a cybersecurity company specialising in endpoint security, secure Wi-Fi, multi-factor authentication, and network intelligence.>>

By implementing behavioural analytics and smart password practices, security teams can thwart credential-based attacks across the organisation.>>

Implementing advanced threat protection (ATP) as part of a zero trust SASE architecture is an important step in proactively blocking known and zero-day threats.>>

To prevent attacks, organisations should apply preventive security controls that reduce the attack surface and test those controls against a ransomware attack scenario.>>

When teams have a clear view of all assets and treat them equally, then they are much closer to stopping attacks in their tracks.>>

It is critical to understand how effective each security product is in stopping the new tactics that the hackers have been using since COVID-19. >>

Supply chain attacks show no sign of slowing down. But the right combination of platforms can help organisations get ahead of the threat. >>

The spike in new threats is putting vital critical infrastructure at risk, according to Skybox Security.>>