Incident Response stories

Average ransomware payments in Australia have halved to USD $711,000 as businesses become more prepared and less willing to pay ransoms after attacks.

Commvault launches Cloud Unity, a unified platform enhancing data security, cyber recovery and identity resilience for cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments.

Sysdig enhances Falco with Stratoshark integration, boosting open source cloud threat analysis for faster incident response and forensic investigation.

Hitachi Solutions and Radware have launched an AI-powered cloud service to protect Japanese firms from a sharp rise in sophisticated DDoS attacks targeting applications and APIs.

Australian firms face world's highest rate of cyberattacks, with 85% suffering major impacts and many paying ransoms exceeding USD $1 million.

Commvault upgrades its Identity Resilience tools to swiftly detect and reverse malicious changes in Microsoft Active Directory, enhancing enterprise security.

Borderless CS has launched managed cybersecurity services for healthcare, offering 24/7 threat monitoring and compliance support to protect patient data and systems.

Australian public sector faces a growing IT skills shortage, complicating efforts to counter rising cyber threats amid rapid digital transformation.

Falco now integrates with Stratoshark, enabling real-time detection and forensic analysis of cloud native environments in a single streamlined platform.

Bitdefender launches GravityZone Security Data Lake to unify security data, reducing alert overload and cutting costs for organisations facing growing cyber threats.

As Asia Pacific factories adopt AI and IoT, cybersecurity becomes crucial amid rising ransomware, with 21% of global attacks targeting manufacturing.

Nearly all large New Zealand firms now use AI in cybersecurity, shifting to smarter, automated defences amid growing cyber threats and evolving risks.

New Zealand’s top cybersecurity experts and organisations were honoured at the 2025 iSANZ Awards amid rising cybercrime losses of NZD $1.6 billion annually.

SentinelOne and AWS have announced new AI-powered security integrations to automate and enhance protection for cloud and generative AI environments.

US CISOs face soaring stress as cyber incidents rise; 73% faced major breaches recently amid high board expectations and AI threats.

Over half of retailers hit by ransomware have paid ransoms, with demands doubling to a median of USD $2 million, Sophos reports in its 2025 study.

A state-sponsored hack of F5's BIG-IP products risks critical infrastructure globally by exposing industrial control systems to unauthorised access and disruption.

New Relic launches Logs Intelligence, an AI-powered toolset to automate log analysis and speed up issue resolution for engineering teams.

EY US partners with CrowdStrike to modernise cyber operations using Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, enhancing AI-driven security and accelerating legacy system migration.

Australia faces a dire cyber threat scenario targeting its economy, infrastructure and government, urging organisations to enhance threat hunting and resilience now.