IT security company CA (formerly Computer Associates) has made 31 staff redundant from its Melbourne-based research labs.
The Australian Law Reform Commission yesterday released a report recommending Australia introduce data breach disclosure laws but Senator John Faulkner said that bridge would not be crossed by government at least for the next 18 months.
McAfee plans to acquire Reconnex, a company that specialises in data leakage prevention, which is the second company it has acquired in as many years.
Lumension Security, formerly called Patchlink, now has a new focus to go with its new name: whitelisting.
The Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson admits that staff have leaked information, lost CDs and been fired for sending porn by e-mail.
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Does anyone seriously believe that Australian businesses and government agencies manage security any better than the US or UK?
If Australia is going to take information security seriously, we need more people like the ATO's CIO, Bill Gibson.
A new survey highlights a predictable problem: there could be lots of risky private information stored on USB sticks. That's about as surprising as Paris Hilton flaunting her lady garden in public.
It's an inevitable consequence of sitting in a lot of enterprise presentations: sooner or later, the phrase "data leakage" is going to come up -- and when it does, you can't help but think of nappies.
Chief Security Officers face a challenging quandary at budget-time because the traditional return on investment (ROI) model falls apart when it is applied to security products but as that is the only language budget-approvers speak, what is a CSO to do?
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In this special report, ZDNet Australia presents a three-part exclusive video interview with Westpac Bank chief information security officer, David Backley, in addition to tips and reviews for businesses to thwart security attacks.
Cisco security maven John Stewart says never mind the OS -- attackers are after the apps, from IM to Office.
A raft of security features in Microsoft Vista will help many consumers become "secure enough" but for businesses they aren't going to be the improvements which drive sales -- and nor do they deserve to be, according to some experts.
This is a selection of short interviews with executives from Salesforce.com, Intranet Dashboard, McAfee and IBM, which were conducted at the CeBIT exhibition in Sydney last week.
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