Cybersecurity

Cyber Security Trends 2023: Securing our hybrid lives

Living a hybrid life, counting benefits and costs ESET’s predicted trend for 2023 is that the changes in human behavior online, expressed in both professional and personal lives, will further blur the line between the physical world and our engineered virtual worlds. As security professionals, we are confronting the implications of these changes across the […]

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Measure Twice, Cut Once: Meta-curious Organisations Relay Security Concerns Even as They Plunge Into Virtual Worlds

The metaverse has emerged as one of the most exciting new frontiers since the advent of the internet. This massive set of virtual worlds creates endless possibilities and potential for new activities and experiences that have not been available in the cyber world before. Tech giants such as Microsoft, Facebook and Roblox are already investing

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Enemy at the Gates

Financial services is among the industries that have been the heaviest hit by cybercrime — from the heyday of the Zeus and other banking trojans to Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, modern phishing attacks, and ransomware. FinServ is a vital sector that plays a major role not only in the lives of people, but also in

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CISO Perth 2023

The recent wave of cyber incidents has put Australians citizens under huge stress over the safety of their personal information. For cybersecurity executives, complacency has never been an option. Failure to perform the most basic cyber hygiene practices could cost millions of dollars, create unmeasurable litigation stress, and seriously damage a company’s reputation. Now, more

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The 2022 Singapore User Risk Report

The 2022 Singapore User Risk Report complements research from the 2022 Human Factor from Proofpoint. Since its inception, the Human Factor has explored a simple premise: that people—not technology—are the most critical variable in today’s cyber threats. Since then, this once-contrarian notion has become a widely acknowledged reality. Cyber attackers target people. They exploit people.

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Singapore’s Counter Ransomware Task Force Report

The ransomware threat has grown significantly in scale and impact and has become an urgent problem for all digitally connected countries, including Singapore. It is also inherently an international problem, as attacks are conducted from across borders, and jurisdictional lines are leveraged to launder money and evade justice. The Counter-Ransomware Task Force (CRTF) was commissioned

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(ISC)² Cybersecurity Hiring Managers Guide: Asia-Pacific Edition

One of the most often cited statistics from the COVID-19 pandemic is the unprecedented rate of digitalization across all industries and organization sizes. This momentum is showing no sign of slowing. According to market research firm IDC, global digital transformation spending is forecast to hit a record high of U.S. $1.8 trillion in 2022, an

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