Enterprise Security

Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit: august 19-20

Thinking about attending the upcoming Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, 19 – 20 August 2019, in Sydney, Australia? As a Summit sponsor, we’d like to offer you a special discount code (SECSUMMIT3) that will help save you $450 off the standard conference fee. If you do plan to attend, please drop by the Thales Booth S38 and meet the Thales team.

GDPR One Year Anniversary: A Risk-Based approach to GDPR is…

Data protection has become a global hot topic since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect on May 25th last year. On the 22th of May 2019 the European Commission has published an infographic on compliance with and enforcement of the GDPR since from May 2018 to May 2019 and it is clear that a lot of work still needs to be done. Let’s very briefly recall what GDPR is and some of its key concepts, before discussing about steps and security controls that will bring your organization one step closer to compliance.

Securing Payment Card Transactions

In the last few years, India has witnessed a significant uptick in credit and debit card payments. As per India’s banking regulator Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) data, both debit card and credit card transactions at Point of Sale (PoS) terminals have risen over 27% in March 2019 compared to the corresponding period a year ago.

Study: 49% of ITDMs Feel Cloud Apps Are the Biggest…

Organizations are increasingly adopting cloud technology and apps into their IT environments. Illustrating this fact, International Data Group (IDG) found in its 2018 Cloud Computing Survey that 73 percent of IT decision-makers (ITDMs) have already witnessed this implementation in their organizations, while 17 percent said they expected to witness such integration over the next year. These statistics make sense in light of the increasing demands for organizations to migrate to the cloud. Indeed, 38 percent of survey participants told IDG that their IT department is under increasing pressure from executive management and/or individual lines of business to migrate all apps and infrastructure to the cloud.

More Than 10M Australians Affected by a Single Data Breach,…

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) found that a single data breach affected more than 10 million Australians. In its latest Notifiable Data Breaches Quarterly Statistics Report, the OAIC reveals that it received 215 notifications of data breaches under the Notifiable Data Breach Scheme between 1 January and 31 March 2019. Nearly all of those security incidents (189) affected between one and 1,000 Australians.