To understand this shift across Australia, we sought insight from security leaders at BlueScope Steel, MinterEllison, and Wesfarmers Industrial & Safety to share how their day-to-day, short-term, and long-term priorities have shifted during the global pandemic. Read the 6 key priorities and trends that are top of mind for Australia’s security leaders.
Recognizing increased exposure, in more ways than one.With many projects, investments and IT rollouts now on hold, security leaders are focused on one thing: enabling their remote workforce while minimizing risk. For companies managing troves of confidential data and IP like MinterEllison, Australia’s leading law firm, ensuring business operations remain secure is the single purview for Sunil Saale, Head of Cyber and Information Security. With 2,500 employees shifting to full-time remote working environments, Sunil says his team has seen an “exponential spike in email and network based threats. With our employees, partners, and clients using shared home networks, cloud-based printers, and scanners, we saw a dramatic increase to our organization’s attack surface. We have increased our vigilance and monitoring of emails, endpoints and network and are watching closely on exceptions are acceptable and what exceptions are just too risky”. ”
Audrey Hanson, CISO at BlueScope Steel, the third largest steel manufacturer globally, agrees, adding, “The majority of our users are now working from home oftentimes using a shared Wi-Fi network. This network is shared with an array of devices that do not always have appropriate security measures in place, like smart TV’s and/or appliances, digital assistants (Alexa), children’s toys, etc. This has increased the risk exposure to our corporate data by potentially leveraging unsecured gateways for nefarious activity.” For Audrey and her team, the increase in potential exposure is top of mind. Also, in the current climate “our people are hungry for information ..
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