Advanced Cyber Security Engineering Research Centre
Recent Cyber Threat Reports
The Advanced Cyber Security Engineering Research Centre regularly updates this overview of threats to various sectors:
Recent Threat Reports Pertinent to All Sectors
- 2020 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index
- 2020 Malware & Ransomware Report
- 2020 Cybersecurity Insiders Cyber Threat Intelligence Report
- 2020 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report
- 2020 State of Managed Security Report
- 2019 Effectively Addressing Advanced Threats
- 2019 Sophos Threat Report
- 2019 Telstra Mobile Security Report
- Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Threat Report
- McAfee Labs Threats Report, Sept 2018
- Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, March 2018
- "The Cost of Malicious Cyber Activity to the U.S. Economy" - published Feb 2018 by the Council of Economic Advisers within the Executive Office of the US President
- Report 429 Cyber Resilience: Health Check published March 2015 by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission
Defence Security
- 2018 Cyberthreat Defense Report (March 2018, the CyberEdge Group)
- Senior Defence figure raises concerns about future cyber attacks (Feb 2019, ABC News)
- Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents (Australian Cyber Security Centre)
- Australian citizens are unwitting 'combatants' in cyberspace, Defence boss says (Feb 2019, ABC News)
Healthcare Security
- Cybersecurity Across the Australian Healthcare Sector (June 2018, Health Informatics Society of Australia)
- Confronting One of Healthcare's Biggest Challenges: Cyber Risk (Feb 2019, Forbes Magazine)
- Health Sector Tops Latest OAIC Breach Report, Yet Again (Feb 2019, Healthcare IT News)
Financial Sector Security
- Is there an answer to the onslaught of cyber attacks faced by financial services firms (Feb 2019, Information Age)
- Cyber Security Self-Assessment Guidance (2013, Canadian Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions)
- Cyber Resilience for Financial Services Entities (May 2015, K&LGates Hub)
Government Security
- Australia Political Parties Hit by Cyber Attack (Feb 2019, Australian Financial Times)
- Cyber Security Updates for Government Departments (Feb 2019, The Australian)
- Farewell Tech Utopia: How governments are readying the web for war (Feb 2019, Sydney Morning Herald)
- Cyber Attacks on Elections called "Imminent National Security Threat" (Feb 2019, The Crime Report)
- NSW Agencies told to bare IT 'crown jewels' under new cyber policy (Feb 2019, ITNews)
Education Industry Security
- Education industry not making the grade for cybersecurity (Jan 2019, IT ProPortal)
- Education sector most attacked in Australia (May 2018, Technology Decisions)
- Invitation: Launch of the Schools Cyber Security Challenges (Feb 2019, Mirage News)
Email Security
- Malicious Email Mitigation Strategies (Australian Cyber Security Centre)
- Email-based cyber attacks gathering momentum (Jun 2018, Computer Weekly)
- Healthcare comes under sustained email fraud attack (Feb 2019, iTWire)
Cloud Security
- Secure Cloud Strategy (2017, Australia Government Digital Transformation Agency)
- DHS adopting secure cloud requirements (Feb 2019, Technology Decisions)
- Op Ed: Why It's Unsafe to Store Private Crypto Keys in the Cloud (Feb 2019, Bitcoin Magazine)
Protecting Infrastructure against Cyber Attack
- Cyber Security of the UK's Critical National Infrastructure - UK Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (Nov 2018)
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