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Top Cybersecurity Predictions For Businesses in 2025

Dec 29, 2024 | cybersecurityasia.net | Mark Lukie

The battle between cyberthreats and cybersecurity is never ending. Cyber attackers continuously evolve their behaviours, tools and techniques to hit new targets, exploit new opportunities and evade detection, while ever-advancing security solutions innovate and adapt to protect against them. The end of the year is a good time to consider how this landscape might evolve over the next 12 months.
Tackling unapproved AI in the workplace

Nov 10, 2024 | frontier-enterprise.com | Mark Lukie

Businesses across Singapore are embracing AI-driven tools to enhance productivity and decision-making. However, the potential use of “shadow AI” — the unauthorised use of unapproved or unsanctioned AI technologies within organisations — could be putting your organisation at risk. The term “shadow AI” originates from “shadow IT,” where employees use devices, cloud services, or applications without the knowledge or consent of the IT department. The use of shadow AI is equally concerning.
“Let’s Fight Fire With Fire: Why Businesses Need To Harness GenAI Now” – Barracuda

Feb 20, 2024 | cybersecurityasean.com | Mark Lukie |Barracuda APAC

By Mark Lukie, Director of Solution Architects, Barracuda APACAs the Director of Solution Architects at Barracuda APAC, I find myself at the forefront of the fight against cyber threats affecting businesses in the Asia-Pacific region. I have seen at first hand the full cost to a business of containing, neutralising and recovering from an attack.
Credential stuffing scam targeting Australian businesses

Jan 24, 2024 | itwire.com | Mark Lukie |Matt Caffrey

GUEST OPINION: How does credential stuffing work? Initially, a 3rd party service is breached, and credentials are stolen. There have been many high-profile organisations that have had their customer's user credentials stolen, I don't wish to pick on anyone in particular. Usually, it is a combination of email address, username, and password (typically hashed/encrypted). These credentials are then published on the dark web for bad actors to purchase and use in automated credential-stuffing attacks.
How to make your Zero Trust Network Access rollout a success

Jan 8, 2024 | itbrief.com.au | Mark Lukie

A recent study for Forrester Consulting found that 83% of cybersecurity decision-makers in Australia and New Zealand see a Zero Trust approach as the future of their firms’ security. However, one in six (17%) had yet to start implementing any kind of Zero Trust program. What’s holding these businesses back, and how can they address that?
Time to stop reacting/defending: This is the year for proactive cyber offense!

Jan 4, 2024 | cybersecasia.net | Mark Lukie

Find out how defenders, organizations and cybersecurity vendors need to collaborate proactively to take the bull by the horns this year. According to the World Economic Forum, the average cost of cybercrime is expected to increase from US$8.4T in 2022 to more than US$23T in 2027, with the Asia Pacific region (APAC) becoming a new ‘ground zero’ for cyberattacks.
Bad bots make up 30% of internet traffic and they’re after APIs

Nov 5, 2023 | itbrief.com.au | Mark Lukie

In June 2022, hackers launched an attack against Australia’s largest Chinese-language platform, Media Today. The attackers made over 20 million attempts to reset user passwords in the platform’s registration system. However, these attackers weren’t humans but bots – complex, automated programs that swarm around the internet carrying out instructions. If you’re a benign bot, you could be harvesting data for search engines.
How OT/IT security gaps threaten industrial transformation in Australia

Oct 1, 2023 | itbrief.com.au | Mark Lukie

Digital technologies are transforming the industrial sector across Australia and APAC. Whether it's automated robotics, AI-enabled control systems, cloud computing, Internet-of-Things devices, advanced analytics, and more – smart technology is changing the way things are produced, distributed, delivered, and maintained. This brave new world is known as Industry 4.0. Not every industrial organisation is ready.
SASE - Take security to users, not make them come to you

Jun 20, 2023 | itbrief.com.au | Mark Lukie

As businesses across Australia emerged from the long shadow of the pandemic, many of them discovered they’d become a digital business. Some intentionally, some out of necessity, but wherever they were along the road, the chances are that they’d made the trip sooner and probably faster than planned. Moving into 2023, many of these businesses have continued their digital journeys, embracing the public cloud, hybrid working, automation, connected IoT systems, and more.
You’ve dealt with the ransomware, how come it’s back?

Apr 19, 2023 | securitybrief.com.au | Mark Lukie

In May 2020, Australian transportation company Toll Group was hit with ransomware. It was the second successful ransomware attack to hit the company in three months. Further, the attacks were perpetrated by two different ransomware gangs. This is not an isolated example, and it’s not a thing of the past – even today, more Australian companies than you might imagine are falling prey to repeat ransomware attacks.