Best cybersecurity practices for smart cities

The joint guide provides an overview of risks to smart cities The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre, the Australian Cyber Security Centre, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, and the New Zealand Nationalโ€ฆ

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ACCC set to increase consumer data rights

The ACCC has focused on data holdersโ€™ compliance Executive summary The Consumer Data Right (CDR) improves consumer choice, control, and convenience by enabling access to data organisations hold about consumers and products. For the CDR to be effective it is critical that CDR data is good quality. This includes productโ€ฆ

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โ€˜Non-stopโ€™ approach to Africaโ€™s banking digitisation

โ€˜Non-stopโ€™ calls for collaboration between the ICT and banking industries If banks want to remain competitive in the face of neo-bank and fintech upstarts, theyโ€™ll have to fundamentally change the way they do business to be digital first. And if theyโ€™re going to achieve that goal, then working with technologyโ€ฆ

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Mitigating IT employee fatigue

Fatigue hurts an employeeโ€™s performance in many ways Employees are dealing with an unprecedented amount of change since COVID, and they are fatigued of change. To decrease employee fatigue, CIOs should perform four steps, according to Gartner, Inc. โ€œAny employee is dealing with digital acceleration, staff departures, having to adjustโ€ฆ

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CSIRO roadmap chartโ€™s major role for storage

There is no silver bullet for reaching net zero so we need multiple shots on goal Storage of renewable energy will be essential to Australiaโ€™s net zero transition but will require significant investment, according to the latest roadmap released today by Australiaโ€™s national science agency, CSIRO. The Renewable Energy Storage Roadmap showsโ€ฆ

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Brisbane Airport Corporation scales up its security

BNE has valuable assets to protect from increasingly frequent cyberattacks Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) operates Brisbane Airport (BNE), a vital part of Australiaโ€™s critical infrastructure that helps employ thousands of Queenslanders and contributes more than $US4 billion to the economy. The third-largest airport in the country by passenger numbers, BNEโ€ฆ

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Australian Govt. ambitious regarding cyber security

Australia first in three of four assessment criteria โ€“ critical infrastructure, organisational capacity and, importantly, policy commitment. Australian Minister for Home Affairs Clare Oโ€™Neil delivered a speech on cybersecurity in Canberra on March 23, 2023. She began by honouring the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people of Canberra and acknowledging the Indigenousโ€ฆ

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Latitude Financial hit by cyber incident

A month after the financial company closed its BNPL services in Australia Financial announced on 16 March 2023 that it had detected unusual activity on its systems which it can now confirm as a sophisticated, well-organised and malicious cyber-attack which remains active. The company recognised distress to customers caused byโ€ฆ

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Top predictions for security and trust for India feature

Achieving digital trust is critical to be considered while making any strategic investments International Data Corporation predicts that by 2026, 20 per cent of large enterprise organizations will migrate to autonomous security operations centres (SOC) accessed by distributed teams for faster remediation, incident management, and response. India is on the riseโ€ฆ

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Taking data maturity to a new level

This initiative will help meet increasing demands for data and analytics support South Australiaโ€™s Department for Education has been actively using a wealth of operational and education-related data for more than a decade. Its System Performance division โ€“ which houses the departmentโ€™s data and analytics capability โ€“ was established inโ€ฆ

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