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Endpoint security

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Facebook to appeal EU-US data transfer ruling in Irish Supreme Court

  Facebook will appeal a decision by the Irish High Court to refer questions over the legality of EU-US data transfers to the European Court of Justice in January, as the Dublin court rejects attempt by a UK IT expert to join the case

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Australia’s data breaches are a ‘sign of naiveté’

  McAfee executive attributes Australia’s poor cloud security record to the lack of data protection measures amid “new and confusing” cloud configurations

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Kaspersky advances plans to encourage women into cyber

  Cyber security provider Kaspersky Lab has partnered with several other organisations to try to encourage more women into cyber

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Time to implement new cyber security protections, says McAfee CEO Chris Young

  Convergence of threats and technologies and an increasingly complex regulatory environment are driving the need to implement new cyber security protections, says McAfee chief

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  APAC security spending tipped to reach new highs

  Security services will be the largest and fastest-growing slice of the overall security pie in the Asia-Pacific region

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Apple challenges Australia’s proposed decryption law

  Tech giant Apple argued that the lack of judicial oversight could reduce customer trust and security, among other reservations over Australia’s draft decryption legislation

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  AI is no silver bullet for cyber security

  A security expert has called for businesses to manage the risks of adopting new technologies and improve their cyber hygiene, rather than see artificial intelligence as a panacea for their security woes

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Optus to acquire Hivint in cyber security deal

  The deal is expected to bolster the telco’s security pedigree in a market that is grappling with more data breaches and cyber incidents

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Detail of Dutch reaction to Russian cyber attack made public deliberately

  Four Russian intelligence officials were expelled from the Netherlands after an attempted hack on the global chemical weapons watchdog. The Dutch government has been open about the detail

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  How Starbucks is using Splunk to automate mundane security tasks

  Coffee giant Starbucks is using Splunk to automate some of its more tedious security tasks to reduce the workload for its cyber staff

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  How Bank of England is using Splunk for proactive security

  Head of the Bank of England’s security operations centre talks about how Splunk is helping it to take a more proactive approach to preventing cyber attacks

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Blockchain is no ‘magic wand’ for cyber security

  The decentralised nature of blockchain networks may deter some cyber crooks, but ASEAN organisations still need to pay heed to the security of their blockchain infrastructure

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Norwegian state discusses vulnerabilities with IT sector

  Government is collaborating with the country’s IT industry to improve the availability of security expertise

• September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18

  Equifax fined by ICO for security failings

  The Information Commissioners Office has fined Equifax UK in relation to a data breach at its UK parent last year

• September 17, 2018 17 Sep'18

  Singapore government to start bug bounty programme

  Singapore’s bug bounty programme will help the authorities identify cyber blind spots and benchmark its defences against skilled hackers