In 2018, the Australian Government released the new Protective Security Policy Framework. This framework aims to assist Australian Government agencies to protect people, assets, and information, as well as providing guidance on how to apply the framework’s requirements.
The Auditor General of Western Australia has called on state government entities to upgrade their information security practices, with a new report finding, in some cases, a complete absence of infosec policies.
Business continuity and disaster recovery solutions have been effective in reducing downtime from days to hours; however, modern solutions are typically reliant upon backup files which are normally inactive and need to be tested and restored. That takes time.
The Australian Human Rights Commission was drowning in a sea of duplicates, tangled in nested folders and perplexed by lost documents. Funding shortfalls and other challenges saw the Commission unable to implement an EDRMS solution that was viable.
A fundamental shift is occurring in the global economy with respect to data. As it stands, only 30% of the global economy has been digitised, but 5G wireless networks and other high- speed telecommunications solutions will enable the digitisation of the remaining 70%, driving huge increases in data generation.
Historically, the process of redaction - removing content from documents for national security, intellectual property, privacy or other reasons – has involved physical implements such as razors, grease-paint, magic-markers and photocopiers. Then came PDF.
A few years ago, talk of using unstructured data sources in the enterprise was relatively rare, but that is rapidly changing. The reason, a thirst for data.
What is a document really and what is its future? A very useful construct and definition of a document is provided by Joe Shepley of Doculabs in a recent article he wrote for CMSWire called, “The End of the Document? Not So Fast.”
Many MySpace users were dismayed to discover earlier this year that the social media platform lost 50 million files uploaded between 2003 and 2015. The failure of MySpace to care for and preserve its users’ content should serve as a reminder that relying on free third-party services can be risky.
Malicious or criminal attacks accounted for the main source of data breaches during the first year of operation of Australia’s Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme, according to a 12‑month Insights Report released by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC).
