The results of an IT security survey of Australia's top 300 companies will be announced at the first Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) conference in Queensland this month.
It is the first time computer crime results have been formally quantified in Australia.
The wave of ROI fanaticism sweeping the globe has made IT executives the sinners in a cult that elevates CFOs to the lofty sphere of saints. If the bean counters are going to save my soul then I choose to burn in the fires of hell and I invite IT executives to join me in my damnation.
Moving beyond its government origins security consultancy firm 90East is making aggressive inroads into the financial services sector securing a number of projects with the big four banks.
Poor management of IT outsourcing contracts by Federal Goverment agencies will be at the centre of hearings before the Finance and Public Administration References Committee in coming months.
ASX-listed company SecureNet has acquired Baltimore Australia and New Zealand in a $5.7 million deal expected to close on June 1.
The Federal Government has abandoned plans to appoint a dedicated cyber security tsar to protect Australia's national information infrastructure (NII), but is moving ahead with plans to implement a national reporting scheme to monitor security breaches within Australia's top 100 companies.
A city council in Western Australia is boasting the implementation of Australia's biggest computer-based, wide-area network telephone system.
Airlines, banks and IT companies have failed on a report card into the impact of Australia's new Privacy Act, forcing the Federal Government to review the legislation and consider the introduction of tougher penalties in 2003.
Instant Messaging (IM) is emerging as the new battleground for IT security managers with users unwittingly exposing corporate information to hackers and exposing networks to malicious worms.
IT spending is set to rebound in Australia and Asia with modest recovery in the second half of 2002, according to the latest research from Gartner.
Australia is victim to more hack activity than the rest of the world simply because of its "au" country code on the Internet.
Australia's $3.5 billion software trade deficit and poor performance as an IT producer has turned the country into a remote outpost of the new economy that is being held hostage by US multinationals, according to the CEO of one of Australia's top publicly listed companies.
Organisations refuse to recognise the critical value of storage, and that's why there is a shortage of such skills when it comes to building and managing enterprise storage solutions.
The Australian Customs Service (ACS) lost strategic control of IT with in-house capabilities effectively "hijacked" under outsourcing arrangements with EDS, the Senate's Legal and Constitutional References Committee heard recently.
A new wave of crime, buoyed by the proliferation of advanced technologies, can only be addressed with the support of IT shops which are being invited to participate in Federal Government initiatives to stem the tide.