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Whitelists & Blackhats

By Axenic Team, on 13 February, 2013

The news yesterday and Monday was all about Telecom’s Xtra service and Yahoo. The media were outraged on behalf of everyone and a number of commentators took to the airwaves to tell us just how bad this was.

So What…?

By Axenic Team, on 8 February, 2013

We do a lot of risk assessments… a lot…. As a result, we spend a lot of time talking about risk, how it is measured and most importantly what it delivers for an organisation. We also do a lot of reading.

Governing Information Security

By Axenic Team, on 31 January, 2013

Following the much publicised MSD breach last year, the Government CIO initiated a review of publicly available information systems in all of the NZ Government agencies.

A Tale Of Two Incidents

By Axenic Team, on 20 December, 2012

Unless you spent the latter half of this year in a cave, you will be aware that both ACC and the Ministry of Social Development suffered security and privacy incidents.