US OPM breach was preventable
12 September, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe US House Oversight committee has found that the Office of Personnel Management could have potentially prevented last year's major data leak of government employee information with even basic security controls.
ADF to get $500m electronic warfare boost
08 September, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingAround three-quarters of the $500m budget for the government's new Electronic Warfare Operations Support for Maritime and Land Forces project will be spent locally.
Closing in on hackers
06 September, 2016 by David BraueEven though cybercriminals try to hide on the 'dark web', increasingly powerful analytics engines are helping law enforcement agencies find them.
NT Police wins iAward for face recognition project
02 September, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingWatch House, a system developed by NT Police and NEC to help rapidly identify suspects brought into custody using facial recognition, has won a 2016 iAward from the AIIA.
Immigration completes $50m SmartGates rollout
29 August, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe Department of Immigration and Border Protection has completed the deployment of 83 biometric automated departure SmartGates across all eight international airports.
CIA CIO calls AWS's cloud a "godsend"
16 August, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe US CIA is "very happy" with the agency's experiences with migrating workloads from legacy hardware to AWS cloud infrastructure, according to the intelligence agency's CIO Sherrill Nicely.
Are 'digital embassies' the answer?
01 August, 2016 by Al Blake, Principal Analyst, Ovum’s Australian Government practice | Supplied by: Ovum Pty Ltd'Digital embassies' — where data physically hosted in one country is legally regarded as being in another — could help overcome tricky jurisdictional issues.
Obama establishes cyber response hierarchy
27 July, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingUS President Barack Obama has clarified the federal government agencies in charge of both asset responses and threat responses to cyberthreats against the nation.
Digital identities — trust but verify
25 July, 2016 by David BraueAs its own identity crisis bites, Australia's federal government is mustering support for a security overhaul.
Turnbull appoints cybersecurity minister
19 July, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's new cabinet includes the freshly created role of Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Cyber Security, and Dan Tehan has been appointed to the position.
WA allocates $8.5m for CCTV deployments
18 July, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingAlbany has secured a share of the WA government's $8.5m CCTV fund and will use the proceeds to install 18 extra cameras in high-crime areas.
White House lays out security workforce strategy
13 July, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe White House has announced a new four-pillared strategy designed to address a shortfall of cybersecurity talent among US federal government agencies.
UK must use DMARC for email by Oct
11 July, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingUnder new rules aimed at protecting government communications, all government emails sent outside the Public Service Network will need to use encryption and the new DMARC authentication protocol from October.
The challenges of securing healthcare data
07 July, 2016 by Rick Ferguson, Country Manager, ANZ, Absolute | Supplied by: AbsoluteThe healthcare sector experiences almost half of all reported major data breaches, and health records typically fetch around 10–20 times more than credit card information on the black market.
OPM breach affected friends and family
28 June, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has acknowledged that last year's major data breach also compromised the personal details of close friends and family of the victims.
