Australian and New Zealand Checkpoint Marketing Manager Chris Rodriguez, says small businesses often lack security and protection, making attractive targets for cybercrime. The reason small businesses make such attractive targets for cyber-criminals is they have sufficiently valuable information to make it worth an attacker’s time, yet they often lack the protection level of larger organisations. […]

Zurich has launched a new cyberattack response solution for businesses across Asia Pacific. DisgitalResolve, a coordinated incident response service, has been launched by the international insurer to help businesses in Asia Pacific mitigate and recover from cyberattacks. The solution will be offered via Zurich partner Crawford & Company and is currently available for customers in Singapore which covers […]

This article originally appeared on – SC Magazine UK. Now more than ever, organisations are likely to evaluate cyber-security risk in their annual audit plans.  According to Protiviti’s 2016 Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs Survey report, 73 percent of organisations now include cyber-security risk in their internal audits, an increase of 20 percent year-over-year. Over 1,300 internal audit professionals […]

Bitcoin plunged after one of the largest exchanges halted trading because hackers stole about $65 million of the digital currency. Bitcoin slumped 5.3 percent against the dollar as of 10:17 a.m. on Wednesday in Tokyo, bringing its two-day drop to 13 percent. Prices also sank 6.2 percent on Monday, although it was not clear if […]