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Dec 10, 2024 | 
securitybrief.com.au | Matt Caffrey |Barracuda ANZ
Cybercriminals continuously refine their methods, tools, and tactics to exploit new opportunities, target vulnerabilities, and evade detection. Meanwhile, cybersecurity tools must evolve just as quickly, harnessing innovation and advanced technology to defend against increasingly complex attacks.
Predicting the future is never easy, but by analysing the past year's trends and developments, we can gain valuable insights into what lies ahead.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
securitybrief.com.au | Matt Caffrey
Email remains one of the most crucial communication tools for organisations worldwide, but it is also a prime target for cyberattacks. According to Barracuda's Email Threats and Trends report, advanced email threats like business email compromise (BEC) and conversation hijacking are on the rise.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
itbrief.com.au | Matt Caffrey
Cyberattacks are costly. Not just in terms of direct financial losses, such as a ransom payment or a fraudulent money transfer resulting from an email scam, but also through operational disruption, productivity loss, damage to brand reputation and customer trust, and through the resources required to fix and recover from the attack.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
technologydecisions.com.au | Matt Caffrey
Cyber attacks impose significant costs that go beyond financial losses. These hidden costs can include disruptions to operations, decreased productivity levels, and harm to brand reputation and customer trust — all of which require additional costly resources to recover from the attack.
47% of Australian IT security professionals have faced one or more cyber attacks in the past year according to recent research.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
itbrief.com.au | Matt Caffrey
Every year, Barracuda surveys managed service providers (MSPs) around the world to understand the challenges and opportunities they face and their hopes for the future.
The results of the latest survey are in, and they reveal a landscape of change and opportunity for both MSPs and their customers.
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May 29, 2024 | 
techday.com.au | Djeffri Setiawan |Matt Caffrey |Paul Gampe |Felix Berndt
Overview This broad term describes any type of cloud service made available to the public over the internet. Common examples include AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud. Public cloud services span the full range of cloud computing, including compute, storage, infrastructure, platform, and more.
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May 17, 2024 | 
securitybrief.com.au | Matt Caffrey
Digital transformation can introduce a multitude of new endpoints, servers and applications into a company’s network, deployed across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments. Every new addition needs to be protected from ever-evolving cyberthreats. Over time, this can lead to a sprawling collection of security tools, each brought in to address a specific concern or gap.
These different products often come from different vendors.
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May 1, 2024 | 
technologydecisions.com.au | Matt Caffrey
Last year, around half (49%) of reported data breaches, including 86% of web application breaches, involved the use of stolen credentials: user names and passwords. In Australia, 1.8 million accounts were breached in the first quarter of 2024 alone. When it comes to secure authentication, there seems to be a lesson we’re not learning.
We know that passwords are vulnerable to being cracked, exposed or stolen and used against us, but many organisations still rely on them for securing access.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
fintechbloom.com | Matt Caffrey
By Matt Caffrey, Senior Solutions Architect atBarracudaLast year, around half (49%) of reported data breaches, including 86% of web application breaches, involved the use of stolen credentials: user names and passwords. In Australia,1.8 million accounts were breached in the first quarter of 2024 alone. When it comes to secure authentication, there seems to be a lesson we’re not learning.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
securitybrief.com.au | Matt Caffrey
In November 2023, the Australian Government published the Australian Cybersecurity Strategy 2023 – 2030, its roadmap for improving cyber security, managing cyber risks and better supporting citizens and businesses in the fight against cybercrime. The need to address the threat and impact of ransomware features prominently.
This is not surprising.
