A summit everyone on the Internet needs to climb.
October 17 marks the start of the two-day Australian IPv6 Summit, to be held in Melbourne. This year the event returns to the Sebel Hotel in Albert Park, with a speaker line-up that reads like a who’s...
View ArticleJuniper EX4500 review
Review of the Juniper EX4500 Ethernet switch. They connect desktops to servers in the data centre via a three-tier system of access, aggregation and core Ethernet switches.
View ArticleReview: WatchGuard XTM2050
What is big, flexible, red and costs more than your average mid-range family sedan? Not a HSV—not quite that much—but this top of the range unified threat management (UTM) device (or in this case, XTM–...
View ArticleClose the Interwebz?
In my last CSO blog I posted about the Australian Federal Governments recent proposal that requires Internet Service Providers to retain their customers’ activity logs for a period of two years.
View ArticleThe insanity of security – a series of queries!
Whether you attribute this quote to Rita Mae Brown, or Albert Einstein, it’s out there and it sums up a lot of security practices: “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting...
View ArticleHacking humans
Human factors have always been the bane of security professionals, and social engineering is also high on the list of factors requiring mitigation measures and controls. Yet their very nature makes...
View ArticleWho’s Tracking Who? How to protect yourself from tracking devices
It may appear counterintuitive to publish an article on how to protect yourself against tracking devices that use GPS technology and that are designed to keep you, your loved ones and your possessions...
View ArticleFive Eyes intelligence alliance commits to securing the Internet of Things...
For years now there have been a plethora of reports around IoT device security being compromised, affecting user privacy and safety.
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