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Axenic wins iSANZ Best Security Project / Initiative award

By Jim, on 10 December, 2015

Axenic is proud to announce that it has been selected as the winner of the Best Security Project / Initiative category in the 2015 iSANZ awards. Axenic was nominated for its security and privacy work on an innovative cloud and mobility project in the health sector.

Need help to implement Protective Security Requirements (PSR)? Axenic can provide it!

By Jim, on 4 August, 2015

On 8 December 2014, Cabinet approved the Protective Security Requirements (PSR) and directed all public service departments, together with the New Zealand Defence Force, New Zealand Police, New Zealand Security Intelligence Service and Parliamentary Counsel Office to implement the PSR.

Compliance, a way to provide clients with the assurance that you can safeguard their information

By Jim, on 27 March, 2015

Perform a search on compliance and you will find that there are many definitions. People have a slightly different view of what compliance means and what is included or not. In general, compliance means conforming, satisfying or adhering to a rule. This rule can be a specification, a policy, a standard, a law, a procedure or a requirement.

If you are not measuring it, you are not managing it.

By Jim, on 9 July, 2014

In my last article I spoke at some length about not just why a Security Policy is important, what its content should be, but also how it should be written. There is no default setting for Security Policy. Remember, what works for one organisation probably won’t work for another.

Axenic selected for NZ all-of-government ICT Security and Related Services Panel (SRS Panel)

By Jim, on 7 November, 2013

Axenic is proud to announce that we have been selected by the Department of Internal Affairs as a supplier for the all-of-government ICT Security and Related Services Panel (SRS Panel).

EQC Privacy Breaches – “Going Dark” Is Not The Answer

By Jim, on 30 March, 2013

On Thursday it was revealed that about a month ago the EQC had suffered another privacy breach. The breach was the result of 2,200 names and information relating to stopped cheques worth $23 million being emailed to a member of the public.

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