Accelerating agility, resilience and security of data backup. Hong Kong’s mobility and infrastructure specialist Kum Shing Group (Kumshing) has adopted its Commvault’s Complete Backup & Recovery with HPE Nimble storage to optimise backup performance and offsite replication. The implementation allows the utility company to achieve up to “five times faster…
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Plan of action includes developing a risk mitigation strategy. India-based PNB Housing has recently appointed Rajat Maheshwari as its CISO. He will be responsible for risk mitigation strategy while integrating security tools into the current systems and enhancing the user experience. According to Maheshwari’s LinkedIn page, he comes with 18…
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One of the alerts includes an update regarding SolarWinds Orion. The Australian Security Centre has identified Australian organisations may have been impacted the Accellion File Transfer Appliance vulnerability and has provided mitigation recommendations. Since 12 January 2021, the ACSC has been working with cyber security partners to assist Australian organisations in…
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MAS recommends corporations appoint a CIO and a CISO to manage the technology and mitigate cyber risks. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today issue to keep up with emerging technologies and shifts in the cyber threat landscape. The revised Guidelines focus on addressing technology and cyber risks in an…
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There may be significant coverage gaps when it comes to Cloud and security. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation for 81 per cent of organisations in Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ). However, this increase in cloud adoption may leave business data insecure. Organisations in the countries are embracing digital…
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Majority of BCPs tend to focus on risks or threats to the physical premises or technology infrastructure. Australian and New Zealand (A/NZ) organisations were somewhat underprepared in their business continuity planning (BCP) for managing a crisis of the scale and magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic. Genesys surveyed of its A/NZ…
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Targeted EU medicine agency hit with a cyber attack in December 2020. The ongoing investigation of a cyberattack on European Medicines Agency has revealed that some of the unlawfully accessed documents related to COVID-19 medicines and vaccines belonging to third parties have been leaked on the Internet. Necessary action is…
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Compromised payment card information or online banking credentials are often sold to third parties in underground black markets at a fraction of its face value. The banking and financial services sector is one of the most important targets for cybercriminals. Banks and financial institutions safeguard incredibly sensitive data of users…
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Control which applications are allowed (or denied). The Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has released a strategy to help mitigate cyber security incidents on Linux workstations and servers. According to the ACSC Implementing application control within Linux environments can be achieved using the File Access Policy daemon (fapolicyd). The fapolicyd framework…
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The central bank acknowledged in the past, growing awareness that cyber incidents presents risks to the stability of financial systems. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua issued a statement stating it was responding with urgency to a breach of one of its data systems. A third-party…
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