Data Protection news stories

As the digital revolution marches on, managing data security has never been more important. Here are five important steps to take toward better financial data security.

Right before our eyes, we've witnessed the development of the COVID-19 vaccine in record time. An enormous achievement in an otherwise lengthy task that previously took, on average, 10-15 years.

The move to remote and cloud-based technologies has shifted the goalposts for cybersecurity. It now needs to cover multiple people, devices, platforms, and networks.

"This surge towards a cloud-first approach meant security and safety became afterthoughts - there's no point being the fastest car on the racetrack if you crash.”

VMware Carbon Black Workload for AWS delivers comprehensive visibility and security across on-premises and cloud environments for AWS customers.

In the past 12 months, over a third of Australian businesses (36%) experienced a cloud-based data breach or failed audit. 

Alexey Pinchuk joins us today to discuss the role the company plays in helping organisations manage risk and provide better security outcomes.

CyberRes, a Micro Focus line of business, has announced a partnership with Google Cloud to support the upcoming release of BigQuery remote functions.

"Imperva DSF gives organisations building data lakes on AWS a streamlined experience for securing data, and confidence that their data lakes are in compliance."

Aqua Security has launched out-of-the-box runtime protection with minimal configuration to stop attacks in real-time on running workloads.

"Our latest platform capabilities deliver critical insights sooner and across the full API lifecycle. Organisations can better defend themselves against attacks."

DataDome has announced enhancements to its solution with the launch of its newly integrated and reimagined CAPTCHA.

Thales has announced a new cloud data protection solution designed to protect SAP customers sensitive data in SAP applications in public cloud environments.

As the techniques of hackers continue to evolve and become more complex, our approach to security needs an overhaul as well.

"Commvault's data protection solution can manage a broad ecosystem of workloads across physical servers, VMs, the cloud, containers, SaaS, and more."

A recent Xero study found ICT spending for NZ businesses has increased 25% compared to pre-pandemic levels, so how safe is accounting software?

Many organisations are thinking about moving to the cloud. But what are the signs you are ready, and what are the reasons to move?

Thales' CipherTrust Platform Community Edition enables DevSecOps teams to deploy data protection controls into multi-cloud applications faster.

Mandiant has launched a digital risk protection offering that allows security leaders to proactively mitigate threats before they disrupt business operations.

Absolute Software has partnered with BlackBerry to allow joint customers to combine CylancePROTECT with its Application Persistence capabilities.

Vectra AI has launched Vectra Protect, a posture management tool designed to find and mitigate security risks in Microsoft 365.

Lookout has acquired SaferPass, adding password management technology to its suite of security offerings and furthering its goal to provide customers with proactive protection.

Organisations with customers or operations across more than one country face a spate of new and proposed privacy and data protection laws.

"Every business needs this type of critical protection against API vulnerabilities and automated bot attacks," Barracuda says.