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Australia’s geographical remoteness is no guarantee of cyber security in a tightly connected digital world. In fact, almost a third of IT decision-makers in research commissioned by Aura Information Security see Australia as a bigger target than other countries. Add that to the roughly half who say that Australia is as much a target as anywhere else and it’s clear that the days of complacency due to distance are over.
Or are they? Despite the fact that 60 per cent of businesses expect the risk of cyber-attacks to become worse in the coming year, a fifth say that things will get better. Fully a quarter of businesses say that senior management doesn’t see cyber-security as a key concern — indeed, almost a quarter of Australian business decision-makers say they think Australia is less of a target than other countries. Those numbers are also reflected in our closest regional neighbor, New Zealand.
Debunking the defence of distance
For CSOs this is a worrying posture. Cyber-threats know no…
