With the silly season suddenly upon us in earnest, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) wants everyone to be more guarded when shopping online. As many of your employees will be shopping online using corporate devices, it’s important to take the time now to remind them to be vigilant. Make sure your staff are all suitably trained to avoid online shopping scams.

Another trip around the sun and we’re celebrating our 23rd birthday. Since our inception in 2000, working alongside our strategic partners, we’ve evolved from a mobile phone service and support startup into a whole-of-business communications technology provider.

In early September, there was good news out of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). Its most recent report on notifiable data breaches in Australia showed that notifications from January to June this year had dropped compared to the second half of 2022. At that time, Australia had been rocked by the enormous cyberattacks on Medibank and Optus as well as three separate data breaches that had compromised the private information of millions of Australians.

As many organisations transition to a cloud-first approach, prioritising the use of cloud applications across their operations, network traffic escalates. At the same time, offering work flexibility in all its many guises, including hybrid working, work from home, or work from anywhere is becoming an expected workplace norm. Together, these modern expectations are placing enormous demands on traditional networks built on hub-and-spoke WAN architecture that was never intended to support and secure such network traffic.

Is your organisation still managing security and networking policies across multiple disjointed consoles? For those who have been tasked to design a cloud-first and future-ready security architecture, secure access service edge, or SASE provides a flexible approach to ever-evolving network security.