by Alex W. | Feb 20, 2013 | Cybersecurity, Organisations
The Australian Attorney-General’s Department released the 2012 Cyber Crime and Security Survey on 18 February. Reading the press that accompanied it eg Cyber criminals struck one in five top Australian businesses, and similar surveys in past years, you might be...
by Alex W. | Jan 31, 2013 | management and leadership, Organisations
Energy companies will need to significantly increase their focus on cyber security in the next three to five years if they wish to keep ahead of the increasing risks to their business from direct cyber attack and malware. The Oil and Gas sector will need to invest...
by Alex W. | Dec 6, 2012 | Cybersecurity, Government large and small, Identity, Organisations
I was asked to give a snapshot about what I thought the big risks for organisations were likely to be in the cyber world in 2013. Below are eight trends that I think are more likely than not to be important in the next twelve months. 1 Boards continue to struggle to...
by Alex W. | Dec 5, 2012 | management and leadership, Organisations, Practical
I was at the launch last Thursday of ‘Security is your business 2’. If you are interested or responsible for Enterprise Risk Management on a practical level, then this DVD will help your organisation. The DVD includes interviews with Australian and...
by Alex W. | Nov 12, 2012 | Cybersecurity, Identity, Organisations, Practical
Last week Pizza Hut Australia admitted that its cyber-defences had been breached. Unfortunately the attackers did get hold of customers’ names and addresses. Technically it seems that Pizza Hut didn’t get breached, but the website providers who host their site did....
by Alex W. | Oct 3, 2012 | Community and Society, management and leadership, Organisations
On the face of it, complex systems might have more resilience than those that are simple because they can have more safeguards built-in and more redundancy. However, this is not supported by real world observation. Simply put, more complexity means more things can go...
by Alex W. | Sep 11, 2012 | Community and Society, Cybersecurity, Government large and small, Identity, Individual and Personal Resilience
“Trust is the currency of the new economy” You may have heard recently about the efforts being promoted by the USA and Australia amongst others to promote trusted online identities. There are also significant efforts in the private sector to develop online...
by Alex W. | Sep 4, 2012 | Biometrics, Cybersecurity, Identity, Individual and Personal Resilience, Quirky
A legislative approach that defines as ‘sensitive’ any biometric measurement shows a lack of common sense and understanding of the science. A better approach would be to protect those aspects of sensitive personal information (eg sexuality, political...
by Alex W. | Aug 22, 2012 | Community and Society, Cybersecurity, Government large and small, Quirky
I’ve been thinking for the best part of the last decade about Internet governance and its impact on national security. In that time, little has changed to improve security for users. The Internet as we know it today can be compared in many ways to the high seas...
by Alex W. | Aug 16, 2012 | Community and Society, Government large and small, Individual and Personal Resilience, management and leadership, Organisations
Resilience I’ve been trying to summarise organisational resilience into a form that can be visualised for some of the people who I’m working with. The key has been to summarise the thinking on resilience as succinctly as possible. Apart from the diagram...
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