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No one is safe from online scammers, and many of these scammers have capitalised on the pandemic, using this confusing time to attack more people than ever.

Palo Alto Networks is urging the industry to move to Zero Trust Network Access 2.0 because previous versions have major gaps in security protection.

The new privacy offering looks to help users control their digital footprints by preventing websites from tracking and profiling users in ways regular private browsers and VPNs don't.

In a bid to prevent the spread of misinformation, Surfshark has announced the release of its fake news warning (FNW) extension for Chrome and Firefox.

Countries across Asia are experiencing a surge of VPN networks, an uptake that is likely due to increased censorship in the region.

Although a VPN cannot guarantee you 100% anonymity, it does give an extensive amount of protection, so it may definitely be worth a look next time you want to nab a good flight deal or avoid those troublesome ISPs.

Surfshark created website safety warning feature that encourages people to be more mindful about the data they are giving to websites and digital platforms.

Reflecting on the past year, it’s clear that remote work played a significant role in maintaining business operations across A/NZ.

SonicWall’s Bill Conner has declared that organisations should no longer change the way they operate just to secure their networks, devices and people.

In this interview, we talk to Bitglass senior director of marketing Jonathan Andresen, who is back for his fourth IT Jam.

Supporting a hybrid workforce while moving the needle on digital transformation requires a technology platform that adapts to changing business requirements.

Research has found 64% of businesses are adopting or plan to adopt SASE in the next year, but many say they’re still confused about its true meaning.

Zero trust streamlines that access while strengthening security protections. For this reason, it should form an essential pillar of any cybersecurity strategy.

Only 12% of enterprises worldwide have fully embraced Secure Access Service Edge.

93% of organisations surveyed have deployed some kind of VPN, yet 94% know that VPNs are a popular target for cybercriminals.

Given the global pandemic and the sudden shift in how the workforce operates, the CISOs worldwide have faced an unprecedented set of challenges. Several months into the transition, new struggles continue to arise, while many of the original ones remain unanswered.

The research also found that 35% of the breaches recorded by Tenable were caused by ransomware attacks, while 14% of breaches stemmed from email compromises.

Zero trust and SASE work together by converging a least-privilege access strategy with an architecture that simplifies how highly distributed users, BYOD, and cloud resources are secured.

2021 will see several themes develop into full blown security threats, many of them borne from the struggles of pandemic-stricken 2020, writes Wontok head of technology Mick Esber.

In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in what is effectively the largest work-from-home experiment ever conducted in human history. For many organisations, this has brought forward plans they had for digital transformation.

Discoveries made by analysts at Sophos have unearthed a new development: ransomware code appears to have been shared across ‘families’, and some of the ransomware groups seemed to work in collaboration more than in competition with one another. 

"These new advancements to the ThousandEyes platform will give customers a comprehensive view of the dependencies that make up today's applications, services, and networks."

A perfect SASE triangle includes security for managed SaaS and IaaS, and the next essential piece: a secure web gateway (SWG), that secures the web and shadow IT. 

The platform offers integrated transport and web proxies, distributed firewalls, network access control (NAC), zero trust network access (ZTNA) or software-defined perimeters (SDP), a VPN highly optimised for mobile access, and AI-driven policy and risk analysis.