According to Australia’s national notifiable data breach scheme, 245 breaches occurred in the three months to June 2019. It is clear that Australians are particularly lax about taking basic cyber hygiene action to prevent their data from being exposed. Two in three Australian workers have clicked on ‘unknown sender’ links at work, jeopardising the security of their business and colleagues.

The internet has had enormous impact on how people think about terrorism and people are now turning away from traditional media and go to the internet as their primary source of information. Dr Anne Aly is one of the most respected counter terrorism and counter radicalisation experts in Australasia, with her advice being sought on terrorism, Muslim women in society, media construction on terrorism by worldwide bodies.

Data privacy is taking the world by storm. Starting with the EU’s formalization of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2016, its enactment in 2018, and a flurry of enforcement activity that started in early 2019, the issue of consumer data privacy is ushering in a new normal for how organisations store and handle sensitive information.

In this current era of enterprise security risk management (ESRM), there are no shortages of risks to contend with. Most surveys of the top global business risks identify several that are security-related, including terrorism, cyberthreats, pandemics, national disasters, water security, and government instability or collapse.  Here are three real world examples to illustrate strategic leadership.

Travel and hospitality are the 2 industries which came to a halt almost immediately when the outbreak of Covid-19 changed lives and livelihoods around the world. Yes, life is slowly but surely returning to some kind of normality however we still need to keep in mind that life has changed forever, for some people and some industries.