Author Archives: Richard Cousins

CommandHub welcomes the new Cloud Assessment and Authorisation Framework released today by the Australian Cyber Security Centre.

It makes sense for Australia to take advantage of the recent massive drop in oil prices in order to build up our oil reserves. But, other than in the short term, storage of that oil in the United States does not make sense.

Why?

Last week’s announcement of the Australian National University breach was significant in that it named China as the key suspect and that they had access to the ANU data for at least five months.

If you’re using enterprise collaboration tools like Sharepoint for sensitive, confidential or classified content, it could be less secure than you think. Find out why and what you can do.

The film ‘China Syndrome’ was fanciful but the New China Syndrome – Industrial Scale Espionage – is deadly serious. Yet most CEOs blithely flick cyber security to their CIOs. Find out why, in 2019, this is not an option.

Forrester says more than 50% of company directors use personal email for board communications and don’t use collaboration tools because they’re too slow. Are you or your directors among them? I dig into the options and the huge, hidden risk of a poor choice.

What is ‘compartmentation’? What do Donald Trump and the A-bomb have to do with it? Find out. In this post, I define compartmentation and how it’s used – and sometimes abused – in the most sensitive situations.