The Cybersecurity Glossary for Non-Geeks

You don’t have to be an IT professional to be concerned about the safety of your personal and corporate data. But sometimes cybersecurity articles are written in professional jargon that can make it hard for those who aren’t programmers or IT pros to understand. Here is some cybersecurity terminology you should be familiar with: The […]

Meltdown and Spectre: The Tale of Two Cyber-Villains

Whether you are running a SOHO business with just one or a few computers, or a large enterprise with thousands, PC security threats are a real and constant danger. Spectre and Meltdown were revealed at the beginning of 2018 – no, they are not superhero movie villains, but very real cybersecurity dangers. And while both […]

NDB Update

NDB Update The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) several weeks ago published the very first report on the Notifiable Data Breach scheme, or NDB. The results, especially given they only covered about 6 weeks, from mid-February to the end of March, show that Australian businesses are under constant assault and need to be […]

The Cybersecurity Gap

An SBS article earlier this year covered the Turnbull government’s addition of TAFE courses to offer vocational training in cybersecurity – an effort to close an estimated job shortage gap of 11,000. Although the “domestic cybersecurity industry was already worth $2 billion,” government experts predict it will triple in just a decade. As major industries […]