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Jan 21, 2025 | 
herbertsmithfreehills.com | Cameron Whittfield |Peter Jones |Merryn Quayle |Brendan Donohue
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Cameron Whittfield |Peter Jones |Merryn Quayle |Brendan Donohue |Josh Kain |Christine Wong | +4 more
September was a big month in Australian cyber. Regulators and government agencies competed for headlines. Threat activity was prolific. The Australian Financial Review Cyber Summit drew heavyweights from across the sector. And HSF released its 2024 Cyber Risk Survey report!At the Summit, Minister Burke gave us a taste test of upcoming cyber law reform. There was a lot of discussion around the so-called ‘limited use’ provisions, as industry came to grips with the fact it will not offer ‘safe harbour’.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Cameron Whittfield
To view this article you need a PDF viewer such as Adobe Reader. If you can't read this PDF, you can view its text here. Go back to the PDF. AustraliaSeptember 17 2024Today, almost 80% of respondents to our Cyber Risk Survey believe the cyber threat to their organisation has increased compared with last year.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Cameron Whittfield |Peter Jones |Merryn Quayle |Brendan Donohue |Josh Kain |Christine Wong | +6 more
We celebrated Corporate Plan season in August, with each of APRA and ASIC noting that cyber resilience is a key area of focus and investment for the 2024-25 period. In the context of persistent delays to Privacy Act reform, the OAIC is focusing on preserving its regulatory remit regarding the NDB scheme.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Cameron Whittfield |Peter Jones |Merryn Quayle |Brendan Donohue |Josh Kain |Christine Wong | +4 more
The CrowdStrike/Microsoft outage naturally dominated headlines in July. It will likely have a short-term impact on the insurance market and the cybersecurity market more generally – a market in which one player notably decided to go it alone, after Wiz rejected Google’s takeover offer. Before Minister Tony Burke assumed responsibility for the cyber security portfolio,Minister Clare O’Neil foreshadowed a new bill that would mandate the disclosure of ransom payments if passed.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Kaman Tsoi |Julian Lincoln |Peter Jones |Marine Giral |Katherine Gregor |Kwok Tang | +2 more
The Australian Government is expected to release a bill or draft bill in relation to the Privacy Act review, this August. This will have come almost a year after announcing its support or in principle support for 106 of the 116 recommended reforms in the Attorney-General’s Department Privacy Act Review Report 2022.1The reforms will involve the most significant changes to Australian privacy law since the 2014 reforms, which introduced the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Cameron Whittfield |Peter Jones |Merryn Quayle |Brendan Donohue |Josh Kain |Christine Wong | +4 more
June started off with a bang, when the OAIC launched proceedings against Medibank for its alleged breach of the APPs. Other regulators were busy too, with ACMA pursuing Optus for non-compliance in relation to its 2022 data breach and APRA clarifying its expectations regarding the adequacy of backups. Data stolen from Ticketek and Victoria Racing Club has reportedly been leaked, and MediSecure has demonstrated the financial distress that a cyber-attack can cause.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Timothy Stutt |Carolyn Pugsley |Cameron Whittfield
In an ESG landscape moving more rapidly than ever before, a key challenge is identifying what information needs to be shared with boards to support them in discharging their responsibility to oversee ESG risks and opportunities. With the proliferation of regulatory change across different jurisdictions and ESG domains, the amount of information that companies need to stay across is overwhelming.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Cameron Whittfield |Peter Jones |Merryn Quayle |Anne K. Hoffmann
It has been an interesting month in the cyber world. We know it
has been incredibly busy, but a limited number of incidents are
breaking the “media-surface”. We continue to monitor
the fallout from the BlackCat / LockBit takedowns, we take a keen
interest in international developments, and we proudly launch our
latest “Cross Examining Cyber” podcast, with Bill
Siegel, CEO and Co-Founder of Coveware.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Cameron Whittfield
Click here to listen to the audio. This is Episode 3 of Cross Examining Cyber, where we cross examine Bill Siegel, CEO & Co-Founder of Coveware. We could have talked to Bill for hours, so we have broken this podcast in two. Part 1 covers a range of issues including the establishment of Coveware, the value of good data, cyber extortion payment trends, cyber extortion “business models” and the challenging geopolitics we all face.
