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June 22, 2020

Experts Reaction On Australia Targeted By ‘Sophisticated’ Cyber Attack – By ‘State-based’ Actor
The risks we face from state actors will only increase as this is the world we live in now.
When our Government institutions, Government Agencies, health and essential industry, education, infrastructure, and the private sector are attacked like this the first question asked is ’how is this possible’. The answer is because the cyber criminals are incredibly sophisticated and no matter how hard we try we are never going to stop them. We all want to know how access was obtained - through phishing, insider threats, ransomware all of which are attributed to human error. Or was access .....Read More
When our Government institutions, Government Agencies, health and essential industry, education, infrastructure, and the private sector are attacked like this the first question asked is ’how is this possible’. The answer is because the cyber criminals are incredibly sophisticated and no matter how hard we try we are never going to stop them. We all want to know how access was obtained - through phishing, insider threats, ransomware all of which are attributed to human error. Or was access gained through unpatched software. The risks we face from state actors will only increase as this is the world we live in now. The updated cybersecurity strategy is due out in the coming months and it can't come too soon. Cybersecurity is everyone's responsibility and as individuals we need to protect ourselves personally. Business owners need to protect their infrastructure and people. The Government need to protect our essential services and infrastructure.  Read Less
December 21, 2019

2020 Cybersecurity Landscape: 100+ Experts’ Predictions
Business email compromise will escalate and cause major disruption to day-to-day activities across the globe.
Business email compromise will escalate and cause major disruption to day-to-day activities across the globe, leading to the addition of compulsory new-school security awareness training and testing in business, academia, industry and government. This will, in turn, result in collaboration and sharing of ‘near misses’ related to cyber threats more than ever. At present, there is a lot of caution with sharing such information.