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How to keep your workplace safe from cyber attacks
Neha Attre 13 October 2020 12 October 2020 With 164 cybercrime reports per day, is your workplace protected against threats of cyberattack? Photo: File. The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) received 164 cybercrime reports per day on an average between July 2019 and June 2020. That equates to one report every 10 minutes.
Cybersecurity audit criticises ACT Government on the same day PM reveals national cyber attack
Dominic Giannini 19 June 2020 19 June 2020 A new report by the ACT’s Audit Office is highly critical of the ACT Government’s cyber and data security policy. Photo: Michelle Kroll. The ACT Auditor-General has found that the ACT Government’s cybersecurity policy is lacking, with a low level of data security awareness among staff.
Women, employers urged to make breast screening a team event
By Ian Bushnell 23 January 2019 Capital Airport Group staff who recently attended a BreastScreen ACT clinic as a team. Photo: Supplied. Getting a breast check can be daunting for a woman, but the moral support to be drawn from a group mammogram booking can take the edge off the experience. BreastScreen ACT is encouraging Canberra women to make group bookings with friends or workplace colleagues, after the recent success of a major Canberra employer organising a staff booking.
Time to Question Cyber Security Readiness
Despite more than one-third of ACT companies having faced a data privacy or cyber-security attack in the past two years, just over half of our local businesses have a plan in place to respond to an incident. Canberra Business Chamber has recently conducted what is possibly Australia’s first survey of local business cyber-awareness.
Canberra cyber-security firm archTIS looks to next growth phase with ASX listing
Booming Canberra cyber-security firm archTIS Limited is now trading on the Australian Stock Exchange after a successful Initial Public Offering (IPO) and $8 million capital raising. The company said the listing on the ASX would progress the development and commercialisation of a suite of secure content and collaboration software products, called Kojensi, for the government and commercial sectors.
Cybersecurity: Only as safe as our weakest link
Around the globe, countries and corporations are focused on cybersecurity. Canberra is home to some of the most innovative, advanced and successful cybersecurity firms in the world. Yet the issue with cybersecurity is that any organisation, no matter how much they have invested in protection, is only as safe as its weakest link.
Personal Personnel Questions: Can your employer ask personal questions about your health?
You have submitted a job application and been in contact with the HR Manger who has scheduled a job interview. At the interview, your impression is that it is going well. But then they say, “Before we move forward, we would like you to visit our doctor for a standard medical check-up. Is this okay with you?” Understandably, you are a little taken aback by this question. You think to yourself: “Are potential employers allowed to ask you to see a doctor?” The short answer is yes.
An inclusive and diverse workforce is good for business | The RiotACT
The ACT has the highest labour force participation and the lowest unemployment rate for people with a disability in Australia. While these are statistics to be proud of, there is still a need to educate more businesses on the benefits of employing people with a disability and create more employment opportunities. Canberra Business Chamber, the ACT Inclusion Council and the ACT Government have partnered and developed the Inclusion in Employment Project.
World Economic Forum honours Canberra tech firm’s pioneering work | The RiotACT
A Canberra tech firm pioneering the new wave of cybersecurity has been recognised by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, an honour previously bestowed on international powerhouses such as Google and Twitter. QuintessenceLabs (QLabs) was one of 61 companies from around the world named in the 2018 list last week and recognised for their design, development and deployment of potentially world-changing innovations and technologies. Only one other Australian company was named.
Service exports serving Canberra well
The ACT recently reached a trade milestone, exporting $2 billion of goods and services in 2016-17. Each year over the past five years, exports from the ACT have grown on average by 7.6 per cent. They were up again in 2016-17, rising 6.4 per cent on the previous year. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s latest Australia’s Trade by State and Territory report, export volumes from the ACT increased 5.6 per cent, while export prices rose 0.8 per cent.
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