Cybersecurity: Telstra and PwC Offer Tips on Protecting Companies from Cyber Attacks
Australian Financial Review
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- Date Published
- 23 July 2024
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- 2
- Australian
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- 10 Mar 2025, 10:27 pm
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New cybersecurity threats and the targeting of senior executives have prompted businesses to adopt a ‘whole of organisation’ approach.
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With the rise of AI-driven cyber threats, such as deepfakes and sophisticated phishing attacks, businesses in Australia are reconsidering their cybersecurity strategies. Telstra and PwC are advising companies to adopt a 'whole of organisation' approach to safeguard against these evolving threats. The article discusses how hackers now use AI to create realistic impersonations and scrape personal data from social media. This trend emphasizes the growing importance of implementing robust cybersecurity measures that can defend against AI-enhanced attacks, which are becoming a significant concern for global cybersecurity policies and frameworks.
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Ben PowellJul 23, 2024 – 5.01amSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginSenior executives and employees across Australian organisations are working as a united team to create a “people-led” defence against a surge in increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks that use AI and deepfakes.Hackers are using AI to create deepfakes – highly realistic videos and audios – that impersonate employees. They are also launching phishing attacks to target individuals using personal information that AI has scraped from social media and online sources.Loading...SaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginLicense articleFollow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.Find out moreRead MoreCybersecurityAFR ReportsANZ BankTelstra CorporationCyber securityCyber threatCyber warfareCyber SummitFetching latest articlesOlympic weightlifting is hard. This boss uses the 1pc rule to get it doneLucy DeanOut-of-control watch price rises give housing a run for its moneyKnow your craft: How the biggest airlines rate at the pointy endJun Bei Liu: How I learnt to speak upSally Patten and Lap PhanThe four actor ‘tricks’ giving executives more confidence‘We’ll fight’: Alex Waislitz on family battles and bad betsA last-chance tote bag and a groovy case for trumpetersEugenie KellyThis machine can bring out the creative streak you never knew you hadThis data-driven wellness retreat is a haven for high-flyersBillionaire Nicola Forrest appoints UBank boss to run family officePrimrose RiordanVictor Smorgon’s star fundie eyes 50pc returns for new fundForrest family powerbroker had alleged role in big Fortescue decisions