by Alex W. | Oct 16, 2015 | Community and Society, Government large and small, management and leadership
Security Professionalisation in Australasia Security Professionalisation is an issue that all who are involved or care about societal resilience should be concerned about. I’ve just written an article for Security Solutions Magazine talking about the efforts...
by Alex W. | Oct 9, 2015 | Government large and small, Organisations, Privacy
Privacy ‘safe-harbour’ and Australia – not safe enough? The decision by the European Court of Justice to declare the Safe Harbour arrangements between the US and EU invalid will have interesting repercussions not only for European citizens and companies such as...
by Alex W. | Jun 9, 2015 | Cybersecurity, Government large and small, Privacy
The loss of 4 million records reminds agencies that good Cybersecurity is repetitive and boring The US Government announced on 4 June that the private information of at least four million current and former government workers had been compromised. The intrusion...
by Alex W. | May 15, 2015 | Big data, Cybersecurity, management and leadership, Organisations, Resilience
Complexity and Resilience How do organisations develop resilience in the complex environment that is the 21st century information centric world? The lifeblood of the modern organisation is information. Every organisation, from small business to government department...
by Sasha | Mar 5, 2015 | management and leadership, Organisations, Resilience
Security Standards are vital to our society That’s why Alex Webling has accepted a nomination to join the Australian Standards Committee for Security Standards and to join the Australian Delegation to ISO TC292, Morioka, Japan in March 2015. We congratulate Alex...
by Alex W. | Dec 22, 2014 | Big data, Community and Society, Crime, Cybersecurity, Organisations
State of ICT Security – Attackers take over SCADA controlled steelworks furnace and caused massive damage The threat to online assets from attackers remains critical according to a report just released on the State of ICT security by the German Government. Cloud...
by Alex W. | Dec 16, 2014 | Community and Society, Crime, Government large and small, Individual and Personal Resilience, management and leadership
The siege in a chocolate shop in Sydney’s CBD ended early this morning AEST. Three people died, including one purported to be the gunman Haron Monis. There will necessarily be intense scrutiny on the forces used to resolve a violent event. However, it is...
by Alex W. | Nov 18, 2014 | Crime, Cybersecurity, Fraud, Identity, Organisations, Privacy
Privacy and Social Login article wins award “Privacy and Social Login” an article published in the International Association of Privacy Professionals Australia New Zealand May 2014 edition of “Privacy Unbound” and here won the first prize for...
by Alex W. | Sep 25, 2014 | Crime, Government large and small, Identity, management and leadership, Organisations
Trusted Insider continued Part 2 of 2 talking about the trusted Insider and how organisations can address the problems at an organisational level In part 1 of this we talked about who are the trusted insiders, why organisations are concerned and what the motivations...
by Alex W. | Sep 18, 2014 | Crime, Government large and small, Identity, management and leadership, Organisations
The trusted insider. Helping organisations protect themselves against trusted insiders I attended the Security in Government (SIG) conference in Canberra earlier this month. I am somewhat biased, but I think that SIG is probably the best annual security related...
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