After the Optus, Medibank and Latitude hacks many questions were asked about why organisations were holding data in such large quantities, and for so long. Considerable reputational damage occurred from those cyber incidents…
If you’re delivering digital transformation, and haven’t carried out a privacy impact assessment, you may be risking the success of your project. An example is in the finding by the Australian Information Commissioner, against the convenience store 7-Eleven.
Since the most recent review of the legislation, the Government announced privacy reforms which include increased responsibility for senior management in Australian organisations.
Cyber-bullying, image-based abuse, illegal and restricted online content are just some of the behaviours the eSafety Commissioner’s office deals with. I had…
The Review of the Privacy Act report was provided to the Federal Attorney-General in December 2022, and he has committed to bringing forward…
If your teams can’t tell you much about their privacy and IT security obligations, the answer is no. Privacy and security obligations involve considerably more than just knowing what phishing is.
I find the phrase “human error” which is often used after a privacy breach, very disappointing. Somehow there’s acceptance that no one can do anything about “human error”. In fact, humans have been coming up with solutions to human error, forever.
There have been 6 highly publicised data breaches impacting Australians in the past 4 weeks. It’s obvious that the resulting reputational damage for the relevant…
For those organisations that want to get in front of privacy and online security risks, there’s a lot happening now:
You can install all the technology you want to protect you from a cyber attack but, if you don’t motivate and utilise your greatest asset…