Australian organisations are a soft target for ransomware attacks, say experts who have issued a fresh warning that the government needs to do more to stop agencies and businesses falling prey to cyber-crime. But in truth, the danger has been growing worldwide for more than three decades.

With due acknowledgement of the disease’s tragic impact, the COVID-19 outbreak proved a boon for Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams users soared from 20 million to 145 million between November 2019 and April 2021.

In today’s workplace where so many organizations have shifted to the cloud, security sometimes gets neglected. One of the reasons for this could be how complex and cumbersome security management can be, especially with large enterprises.

Risk management has developed significantly from when it was first introduced. In the 16th and 17th centuries, notions of risk management evolved into something more akin to how we see it in the cybersecurity landscape today. The amount of risk for voyages would be weighed and calculated, and at the end of the day, someone would decide whether the complex risk environment was worth the possibility of losing the entire shipment or if the risk was acceptable enough to take the gamble on the product being shipped.