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Strengthening Australia's Government Data and Digital Services with Splunk Digital Resilience

As the Splunk Industry Advisor to the Australian public sector, I work closely with government organisations and their leaders to understand their goals, objectives and the challenges they face in achieving digital resilience. This blog shares perspectives on how Splunk works with the Australian government to provide a unique approach to solve some of the public sector's toughest challenges.

A Blueprint for Hyperautomating Your Next-Gen Secure Software Development Lifecycle

Aner Izraeli is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Torq. He leads Torq’s cybersecurity strategy with a focus on innovation and resilience. Aner’s career spans over two decades in the cybersecurity field, where he has consistently demonstrated expertise in SIEM/SOC, incident response, and network security.

Trustwave Data Reveals HTML Attachments, QR Codes, and BEC as Top Email Attack Vectors

The Trustwave SpiderLabs team regularly collects a trove of data while protecting clients from email-based attacks. HTML attachments, malicious QR codes, and business email compromise (BEC) are the favored attack methods. A recent snapshot of data from June 2024 from Trustwave MailMarshal shows that email-based threat actors still favor HTML attachments to deliver a variety of malware types.

Navigating the AI-powered development era in financial services

Australian and New Zealand financial service institutions (FSIs) are facing pressure to innovate quickly while maintaining robust security and regulatory compliance. Many, like ANZ Bank and Commonwealth Bank, are exploring Generative AI to accelerate software development, but is it a silver bullet?

The Willy Wonka World of Application Security Defenses

One doesn’t have to be a magician to understand how to track the hundreds, if not thousands, of applications that are running on your network. To lighten the load and eliminate the need for having supernatural abilities, let’s go over some simple tasks a security defender can take to track, detect, and even block application threats.

Cloud identity insights - Detect at the edge in real time

Cloud attacks strike fast. Prevention used to be enough, but not anymore. And legacy EDR tools fall short because they lack visibility into cloud identities and behavior. Defenders need the ability to detect at the edge - in real time - and correlate early stage identity behavior to see what's happening fast.

The 443 Podcast - Episode 304 - Are TP-Link's Days Numbered?

This week on the podcast, we discuss the US government's push to investigate the risks that TP-Link network devices introduce to national security. Before that, we give an update on the NPD data breach from last week as well as the threat actor behind it. We also discuss an ongoing cyber incident at the Port of Seattle. The 443 Security Simplified is a weekly podcast that gets inside the minds of leading white-hat hackers and security researchers, covering the latest cybersecurity headlines and trends.

Comprehensive Guide to Cyber Insurance for MSPs

Cybercrime is as lucrative as ever, generating millions in illicit revenues for threat actors. Between 2021 and 2023, global data breaches rose by 72%, breaking all previous records. Meanwhile, data breach costs continue to rise. The average cost of an enterprise data breach in 2024 is $4.88 million — another all-time high. This puts managed service providers (MSPs) in a tight position. Cyber liability insurance can help reduce exposure to steep losses associated with cyberattacks.