Data Breach Risk is real, and of increasing concern to business leaders, regulators and customers.

Audio of Rob Livingstone’s presentation  at Trend Micro’s Executive briefing events Sydney and Melbourne 5-6 June 2017 on Australia’s new Mandatory Data Breach Notification legislation.…

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Rob explores a number of aspects of your digital ecosystem, including IoT, executive’s ‘Digital literacy’ levels, fully utilising your existing IT systems, cyber-security and rapid change. See the non-technical challenges in your organisation’s Digital journey?

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Shadow IT – a term used to describe the use of IT / Digital / Cloud systems by individuals and parts of the organisation without the appropriate oversight – can add overall IT cost, increase complexity, elevate business risk and …

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Rob explores a range of business, organisational and governance factors that will ensure IT departments are able to incubate business relevant innovation to drive and deliver sustainable business value

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How do organisations and their IT departments rate when it comes to protecting themselves and their organisations against the ever present cyber risks and cyber-crime? The answer is, on average, poorly.

In this episode Rob explores key organisational factors that …

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A rising proportion of data breaches and adverse cyber events are avoidable or self inflicted.  No longer are the majority of cyber threat have their origins coming from outside the organisation, and increasing proportion have their origins stemming from within …

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For business decision makers, striking the right balance between owning or transferring the risk – through cyber insurance – is not as straightforward as it may initially appear.

In this episode, Rob offers 6 key points to consider when taking …

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The conventional approach to managing IT vendors may not be adequate in our rapidly changing business environments or in the adoption of your new, emerging and disruptive business technologies.

In this episode Rob explores contracts based on gain-share, vendor ecosystems, …

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How do prescriptive SLAs help your organisation in changing environments?

This is especially relevant for IT supply contracts – outsourcing, service provisioning and the like – which may work well for both the vendor / service provider in relatively stable …

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