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Does Your Business Need To Undertake A Security Audit?

📅 13/03/2023
When a company conducts a security audit, it typically involves a thorough evaluation of the business’s information systems, policies and procedures, in order to identify potential security vulnerabilities and risks. The following are some of the key steps involved in…
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Secure Industrial Analytics Solution (SIAS) with Sightline

📅 09/09/2020
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is a collective term used to describe different types of control systems and associated instrumentation, which include the devices, systems, networks, and controls used to operate and/or automate industrial processes. Advances in smart sensor technology (IoT)…
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Zero Trust Vital In COVID-19 Vaccine Research Security

📅 12/08/2020
The stakes are high in the area of COVID-19 vaccine research with many nations wanting to be the first to create an effective vaccine. Recent prosecutions against Chinese state-sponsored hackers and the Russian APT29 accusations show the lengths that nations will go to in order to…
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Industry 4.0

📅 25/05/2020
Globally, almost every industry is transforming business operations due to the fourth industrial revolution, known as Industry 4.0. The Federal Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources highlights that transformative technologies are increasingly being used to connect the physical with…
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Pandemic Preparedness – Cybersecurity Risks and Coronavirus

📅 18/03/2020
Many Australian businesses are implementing remote work strategies to minimise the risk of spreading Coronavirus (COVID-19) in their organisations. While employee safety and maintenance of productivity are critically important throughout this pandemic, remote work arrangements may also have security implications…
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Time for Real Change: Reducing Violence Within Hospitals

📅 27/08/2019
Background The Agilient team of security consultants have many years of experience in providing best-practice security solutions to Hospitals, Health Centres, Local Health Districts, Health Departments and private Health Care Companies. This article is based on Agilient’s experience in working…
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Understanding the Importance of Water Security in Australia and Globally

📅 17/06/2019
Australians live on the driest inhabited continent on Earth. With around 70% of the country’s landmass defined as arid or semi-arid and a highly variable water cycle, it’s no wonder that since the 1860s Australia has experienced at least nine…
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Agilient Is Major Contributor to NSW’s New Cyber Security Industry Development Strategy

📅 12/12/2018
One of the most rapidly evolving and expanding challenges being faced today is cyber security. Often misunderstood and overlooked, cyber security has emerged as an extremely important, high profile, cross-sectoral theme in our digital environment. Indeed, the global cybersecurity market…
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Ticketmaster

Ticketmaster Data Breach: What You Need to Know

📅 03/07/2018
The ticketing agency, Ticketmaster, has recently released a warning to customers that their private details may have been breached due to a software hack. The company, which sells entertainment and sporting tickets globally, has revealed that more than 40,000 of…
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Reforms to the PSPF will come into effect on 1 October 2018

PSPF commencement date moved to 1st October 2018

📅 29/06/2018
On 31st July 2012, the Australian Government introduced a new security framework, the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF), which superseded the Protective Security Manual (PSM). The PSPF was intended to assist Australian Government entities to protect their people, information and…
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PCI Security Standards Council - Securing the Future of Payments

PCI Security Standards Council: Securing the Future of Payments

📅 27/06/2018
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) are a set of standards for handling the information on payment cards securely, as prescribed by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC). The PCI SSC was established in December…
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Overcrowded and Undermined: The Security Concerns for Queensland’s Jails

📅 26/06/2018
Queensland Corrective Services (QCS) is facing a significant security challenge as overcrowding within correctional centres throughout Queensland continues to rise. A recent submission by the QCS to the Crime and Corruption Commission reported that the prison population has risen by…
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National Woolworths IT Outage: Were They Prepared?

📅 17/06/2018
Over a month ago, Woolworths stores fell victim to a nationwide IT issue that rendered register systems unusable for half an hour at 4pm on April 16th. Close to 500 Woolworths stores around Australia were affected and left customers with…
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Is the Commonwealth Bank guilty of breaching national security?

📅 09/06/2018
This week, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia has settled with AUSTRAC (Australia’s Federal Financial Intelligence Agency) to pay over $700 million in fines and legal fees. The fines are a result of AUSTRAC’s investigation of the Commonwealth Bank’s breaches of…
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Looking Outside Your Organisation: How To Understand & Respond To Supplier Risk

📅 08/06/2018
Effective business continuity and resilience means more than just looking internally at your organisation’s processes, systems and dependencies – external suppliers must be considered in planning for a potentially disruptive event. Assessing and mitigating critical supplier risks is vital in…
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The current view of organisational resilience relating to ISO 22316

📅 06/06/2018
In today’s fast-paced world, never before have businesses, government agencies and other organisations been subject to such a complex magnitude of risks and threats. Cyber attacks, terrorist activity, natural disasters, supply chain failures, market volatility and reputational crises are just…
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Risk Communication: A Collaborative Approach

📅 06/06/2018
Understanding the needs and perspectives of organisations and their staff in emergency and BC planning, considering an omnidirectional approach to risk communication “Risk communication and risk management efforts are destined to fail unless they are structured as a two-way process.…
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How To Create The Right Crisis Management Team

📅 05/06/2018
In this article, we explore the importance of the right crisis management team, including key players such as communications and legal representatives, in managing reputational risk and reactions/responses to a crisis. At Agilent, we define crisis management as the “actions…
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SCADA Security In An Interconnected World

📅 04/06/2018
Increasingly we hear about cyber-attacks against critical infrastructure and warnings about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to further attacks. How are these attacks possible? We are also seeing an increase of infrastructure control systems (ICS) being connected to the Internet.…
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Thoughts on the Ernst and Young Global Fraud Survey of 2017

📅 29/05/2018
Ernst and Young (EY) have recently released its 15th Global Fraud Survey and, in light of current events, its findings are both disappointing and unsurprising. Levels of fraud and corruption have not been significantly reduced over the past few years…
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