Posts by Iby Boztepe

Of note, the health sector is once again the highest reporting sector, notifying 22 per cent of all breaches. That is 118 organisations. Further, most data breaches affected organisations with less than 100 individuals.   Of the ‘Malicious or criminal attack’ category, 74% of breaches involved compromised credentials. These are known as identity attacks because…

Intellectual property, those ideas that we strive to build companies on, are undeniably valuable. But it’s often also vulnerable to threats from inside as well as outside the business, including unhappy employees, ex-employees and competitors. The Office of Australian Information Commissioner reports on notifiable data breaches where the Healthcare sector leads others by numbers of…

ithin the highly regulated healthcare sector, the usage of Microsoft Office 365 — a suite of cloud-based productivity and collaboration applications — has become very popular. The ability to convert what was once CAPEX into OPEX is very appealing for many enterprises, not-for-profit and government agencies. In the rush to subscribe and implement, however, some…

From patient medical and emergency records to automating data capture within clinical processes to retaining and sharing research and development activity across laboratories and partner supply chains. Many more medical devices that perform complex functions, diagnoses, therapies and outputs are increasingly placed within a connected IT network. Whilst all industries have Cyber Security challenges, the…

APRA should seek to build strong allegiances with public and private sector experts, other regulators and financial firms to augment its internal capacity and to collaborate on ways to strengthen the cyber resilience of APRA’s regulated sectors In response it has supported this recommendation as “APRA has identified cyber and technology as priority areas for…

For AusBiotech – 2017, the marketing material promoted the opportunity to learn of and listen to, first-hand the… ‘ground-breaking research and trends and the opportunity to build partnerships with local and international investors, researchers and industry stakeholders.’ Attending the conference over the three days, it exceeded my expectations from the start. From the opening session…