VIDEO: IT Security Trends in Australia

This video outlines security trends in Australia, which include: The popularity of security issue keeps growing, drawing out the recognition of cyber security as a business risk and how it can damage company brand and stakeholder confidence. It is also driving up the level of government concern causing strengthening of regulation like Breach disclosure forcing…

VIDEO: How Effective is your Firewall?

A firewall filters the information coming through the internet connection into company’s private network implementing security rules and policies set by the company e.g the computers that can access the internet. Gives control of how people use the network. This video gives an outlook on traditional firewall and how they provide rudimentary network security, modern…

SECURITY THREATS: A GUIDE FOR SME WHITEPAPER

SECURITY THREATS: A GUIDE FOR SME WHITEPAPER This paper aims to help SMEs focus on threats that are likely to have an impact on, and affect, the organization. These threats specifically target SMEs rather than enterprise companies or home users. These threats include: Malware is a term that embodies computer viruses, worms, trojans and any…

The Difference Between Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity PLan

This video talks about the difference between disaster recovery and business continuity planning. It explains how merely having back-ups is not enough for companies, the need for business continuity planning and having a disaster recovery site cannot be over emphasised. Legally companies are required to prepare for disasters efficiently. It also explains why the responsibility…

Reflection on BusinessQldGov Webinar: Business Continuity Planning

I watched a webinar on business continuity planning conducted by Yvette Adams for BusinessQld Gov .A business continuity plan is a management process that identifies potential threats and impacts within an organisation, providing a framework for building resilience and the capability for efficiently respond when disaster occurs. She defined Resilience as the ability to prevent,…

Reflection on Managed Network Webcast on Information Security

After watching the Managed network Webcast on Information Security conducted by company’s CEO Mr Ben Rapp, I was exposed to the notion that information Security is 3 dimensional and these dimensions include: Confidentiality: In the webcast Mr Rapp talked about “Privacy” in the sense that business need to restrict access to important information and focus…