Data Protection

Balancing Act: Between security risk and impact

1st March, 2011 by Graeme Mickelberg | ASM | Jan-Feb 2011
The past ten years have seen an increased emphasis on security from governments and businesses. Graeme Mickelberg looks at some of the key issues faced by the security industry.
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Security in the new information age

29th September, 2010 by Claudio Scarabello | ASM Sept-Oct 2010
Conducting business has been made easier by new technologies which allow content to be created and distributed effortlessly. However, as Claudio Scarabello writes, it is difficult to control where data ends up when information is shared with partners, suppliers and customers.
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Protecting card data

4th August, 2010 by Tim Smith | ASM Jul-Aug 2010
With organised e-crime growing increasingly sophisticated, Tim Smith urges businesses to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.
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World First: Australian company gains Common Criteria security certification

9th July, 2010 by Judy Hinz | Online Editor
In a world first, Australian company Noggin has secured Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ (EAL2+) certification for its OCA incident management software under the Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (Common Criteria or CC) standard.
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Cybercrime needs to be fought through industry partnership

27th June, 2010 by Mark Goudie | ASM May-June 2010
As the IT security sector gathered for the AusCERT 2010 conference in May, Mark Goudie called for cooperation to defeat a common enemy: the cybercriminal.
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Data in danger: protection, recovery and secure destruction of business information

14th October, 2008 by Jane Symonds | ASM | Jul/Aug 2008
Kroll Ontrack’s Asia Pacific General Manager Adrian Briscoe speaks to ASM's Jane Symonds on data security.
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Million-dollar data centre for Sydney

2nd September, 2008 by Jane Symonds | ASM | July-August 2008
Security provider Webroot has chosen Sydney as the site of its first data centre in the southern hemisphere.
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Date in danger: protection, recovery and secure destruction of business information

1st September, 2008 by Jane Symonds | ASM July/August 2008
In this month’s Back Page feature, Kroll Ontrack’s Asia Pacific General Manager Adrian Briscoe speaks to Jane Symonds on data security.
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The purchase dilemma - is data leakage prevention a good investment?

13th August, 2008 by James Turner | ASM | April 2008
Too often the decision to purchase IT security products is made without regard to the need to train employees about security protocols. It is an oversight that can be costly writes James Turner.
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