Best Practice stories - Page 75

Auckland's Vector Limited has been fined $3.575m for excessive power outages, breaching network quality standards.

WatchGuard's Internet Security Report for Q4 2018 also finds growing use of a new sextortion phishing malware customised to individual victims.

The Asia-Pacific region remains a prime target for cybercriminals, according to Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report.

HPE has launched an 'industry-first assessment software' to help businesses work out the right mix of hybrid cloud for their needs.

Businesses are realising they need AI at scale, and so enterprise IT teams are increasingly inserting themselves into their company's AI agenda.

A breach at Gearbest has left over 1.5 million shoppers' records exposed, including payment details and national IDs, due to an unencrypted database.

Proofpoint found that the education sector was the most targeted of both brute-force and sophisticated phishing attempts.

SAP Concur advises businesses to harness GPS tech for precise mileage reporting, mitigating expense inaccuracies and easing tax and audit burdens.

Barracuda expands its MSP security offerings by acquiring Avast's Managed Workplace, enhancing its remote monitoring and management capabilities.

For many cybersecurity professionals, the worries of the day often crawl into night-time routines - LogMeIn says better password practices can help.

A new Privacy Bill welcomed by Commissioner John Edwards will cap breach fines at NZD $10,000, abstaining from heftier penalties up to NZD $1 million.

Of the 11.5 million individuals affected by healthcare breaches in 2018, 67% had their information exposed by hacking and IT incidents.

Gartner predicts global spending on Robotic Process Automation (RPA) will reach $2.4 billion in 2022, up from $680 million in 2018.

Vodafone New Zealand's extra 10 days of 'safe leave' for its employees has now been implemented in a total of 25 countries.

Adopting key best practices for SIEM optimisation can cut licensing costs by 30% annually while boosting threat detection and response times dramatically.

Mobile Mentor joins Android Enterprise Recommended program as managed service provider, offering customers confidence in deploying Android.

One Identity's IT veteran Balázs Scheidler shares his insights on log management's history and where it's going to next.

As the company's presence in the region has grown its partner ecosystem has expanded. Helen Larcos takes up the mantle to handle this growth.

As cloud adoption surges, Petra Smith from Aura Information Security shares insights on the benefits, risks, and best practices businesses need to consider.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and FIDO Alliance have finalised the WebAuthn standard, paving the way for passwordless logins and enhanced web security.