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A security breach impacting up to one million people is always going to be serious. When it’s in a country with a population of less than five million… well, that’s more than 20 percent of the population potentially affected. And when it affects a health organisation (albeit, not actual health records) the alarm bells ring even louder.
The breach of Tū Ora Compass Health Primary Health Organisation, which also affects PHOs it has relationships with, is yet another reminder of the value of data and its protection.
The 'stress testing' that is now being conducted around other data sets may help others avoid the stress that Tū Ora has suffered.
In other news:
- "Your Password Has Been Hacked": Chrome’s new hack monitor
- Tech titans big buy up of AI startups
- Quiet Kiwi geo-achiever makes new acquisition
- IT as the UN’s sustainability helper
And carrying on the theme of data protection, we take a look at the misconceptions around who is actually responsible for securing your data in this cloud-first world. A senior practitioner gives some free practical advice on what protections you need to put in place. Tū Ora (et al) take note!
Enjoy the read,
Heather Wright
Editor
editor@istart.co.nz
CYBERSECURITY
NZ health sector on notice after major data breach
Stress testing after one million records exposed…
Monitoring of the security of NZ health organisation’s systems has been stepped up with cyber ‘stress testing’ underway after data for up to one million people was exposed in a massive breach.
“It was our responsibility to keep people’s data safe and we’ve failed to do that.”
PASSWORD SECURITY
New Chrome extension reveals all your compromised passwords
Google aims to plug password leaks with browser-based hacked credential checker…
In the age of the data breach, it seems that everybody, everywhere has had their credentials accessed by a nefarious third party at some point.
Be horrified, then spend the day updating compromised passwords.
[Read more]
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STARTUPS
AI startups in acquisition frenzy
Big-tech targets the next big thing in AI…
The tech titans are splashing the cash when it comes to the industry’s latest fancy, AI, with Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon gobbling up startups at a record pace.
“AI is more profound than electricity or fire.”
[Read more]
ACQUISITION
Seequent continues upward climb with GeoSlope acqusition
Leapfrogging ahead with growth plans…
Kiwi geotech software success story Seequent is continuing to spend up on acquisitions, snapping up Canada’s GeoSlope.
Deal will improve engineering and design workflows to help solve earth, environment and energy challenges.
[Read more]
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Digital tech critical to UN Sustainable Development Goals
Can AI, big data and IoT ride to the rescue?…
We’ve all seen the images: From great swathes of floating trash, to the recent global climate change protests, to images of inequality around the world.
Business must put this agenda more intentionally at the centre of who they are and what they do.
[Read more]
CLOUD SECURITY
Data is your digital lifeblood. But who is responsible for securing it?
There’s a big misconception around security that threatens to trip up many companies moving to the cloud…
Cloud providers pour resource into security, but responsibility for protecting the virtual machines on those servers and the applications they host, lies with the individual customer.
If you don’t protect your own users, applications and network infrastructure, you are setting yourself up for a meltdown in the cloud.
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