Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) naturally plays a big role as organisations need to make sure they have the right security solutions.

The study found that regulatory landscape and newer use cases such as cloud-based services and IoT that are driving the adoption of PKI.

According to a Ponemon Institute study conducted, insider threats have increased in both frequency and cost over the past two years.

Australia is lagging behind the global average when it comes to having solid enterprise-wide encryption strategies, according to new research sponsored by Entrust.

More than half (60%) of organisations experienced data loss or exfiltration caused by an employee mistake on email in the last 12 months.

"Organisations must not fall into the trap of thinking that OT can just be tacked onto an existing IT program or managed under a general IT umbrella."

“While it’s positive to see more leaders engaging in strategic approaches to securing their organisation, it’s important to keep their energy focused on the fundamentals of cybersecurity."

Proofpoint and Ponemon Institute have released the results of a new study on the cost of phishing. 

"Cloud account compromises and sensitive information loss can disrupt business, damage brand reputation, and cost organisations millions annually.”

The report found expectation and reality are often misaligned when it comes to the implementation of desirable security solutions. 

Although nearly half of corporate data is stored in the cloud, a quarter of Australian organisations admit they have not employed a security-first approach to cloud storage.

The report also showed that teams were also concerned about investigating actionable intelligence and building incident timelines as well as cleaning, fixing and/or patching networks. 

Cloud data protection requirements continue to drive encryption use, with encryption across both public and private cloud use cases growing over 2018 levels

Despite the surging cloud adoption that is rife around the world, a new study has revealed there’s still a lack of understanding around security.

Some shocking results include that 57% of respondents who have experienced a phishing attack have not changed their password behaviours.

Where nearly 3 in 5 organisations (56%) routinely encrypted employee and HR data in 2016, this has further dropped to around 2 in 5 organisations (44%) this year.

Increasingly, security professionals are looking to artificial intelligence (AI) as a key weapon to win the battle against stealthy threats inside their IT infrastructures.

Malware infections globally are the most expensive cyber attacks – costing $2.4 million per incident.

It’s important for healthcare firms to maintain organisation-wide security that is both up-to-date and automated, says Wavelink.

​Cybercrime is a business and the rising number of attacks is not a result of criminals getting smarter -most businesses just have poor cyber hygiene.

More data is being stored in the cloud, where IT departments have less control over it – and this trend is only set to continue.

Australian businesses need to be on the lookout for malicious insiders, phishing and social engineering or face price tags of as much as $137,000.

Millennials risk data confidentiality; Gen Xers are most likely to be negligent about security policies & baby boomers may fall for phishing scams.