David Braue
Contributing Writer
David Braue is an award-winning technology journalist who has covered the security and telecommunications industry in Australia. Follow him on Twitter at @zyzzyvamedia.
Lessons from the trenches: Australian firms make it easy for hackers
As an Australian vocational school left victims unaware of a data breach for a year, EY warns another company that inadequate security is an accident waiting to happen
Government agencies face big onus after cloud-security decision
Amidst concerns about hack of Defence personnel database, agencies directed to self-assess cloud security
More breaches than ever occurring at Australian companies
Healthcare shamed, email blamed as data breaches increase 17 percent in the second half of 2019
The week in security: Time to reconsider your security architecture?
Security experts have warned about credential stuffing attacks for some time – but new research suggests that the APIs used by cloud-based services are becoming facilitators for those attacks, particularly in the increasingly-open...
As IoT attacks soar, Stowe rewires its network security
With Australia awash in IoT attacks, electrical contractor takes a new architectural approach to limit its internal exposure
New AustCyber-funded projects target key cybersecurity industry pain points
Second round Projects Fund allocations will split $8.5m among 17 industry projects
Malware detections dropped more last year in Australia than anywhere else
Australia and New Zealand users bucked global trends in 2019 as the volume of cybersecurity threats dropped 14 percent last year, according to new analysis that also found Mac threats outpacing Windows threats for the first time...
The week in security: Lifting the bushel on cybersecurity’s light
Cybersecurity is of the shadows, surfacing quiet discussions that used to be held in out-of-the-way meetings.
Security tools among the fastest-growing business apps
Email filters and other people-focused tools are the first step in building the “modern security stack” – but study finds businesses only get serious when they reach a certain size
Can you protect your data when it’s no longer inside your network?
As if bring your own device (BYOD) trends hadn’t created enough grief for data-security managers, widespread decentralisation of data in the cloud is proving to be an even bigger problem – with usage surging and a new study...
Every day should be Data Privacy Day – but especially today
Companies must own the privacy conversation by helping users protect what little privacy they still have left
The week in security: Digging in for a more-secure 2020
Now that you’re probably back to work and stuck in annual planning meetings, you’ll be thinking a lot about your key priorities – and, indeed, about just what cybersecurity is – to ensure that you improve your cybersecurity...
Infrastructure cyberattacks pose a clear and present danger in 2020 and beyond: WEF
Impact of cybersecurity attacks, data theft eclipsed only by climate change, weather
The week in security: Avoid making the same mistakes in 2020
Just because you were on holidays, doesn’t mean cybercriminals were as well. With the highly profitable holiday shopping season slowly coming to a rest this month, it’s important that every ecommerce practitioner have a range of...
Improve end-user communication to avoid making the same mistakes over and over again
Engage with users in ways they understand, Microsoft security head advises as new Compliance Score tool monitors Office 365 information compliance
Effective security means thinking like a defender, not a predator
But in a world where we’re used to being right, Internet of Things insecurity will create “quite a big problem” once cybercriminals identify the potential rewards
Amid growing privacy concerns, data scientists outline strategies for safe data de-identification
Three-year effort refines algorithms for evaluating data and its potential for re-identification
Australians pessimistic that cybersecurity skills gap will be closed within a decade
Despite an ongoing flurry of new cybersecurity training initiatives hitting the market, Australian and New Zealand cybersecurity professionals are among the world’s least optimistic that the cybersecurity skills gap will be filled...
