CYBER

People & Products

Technology company Iress has revealed the findings of its internal investigation following a cyber incident earlier this year which affected its OneVue business. ...

Funds management

Iress has issued an update denying the validity of “certain statements” made by an alleged threat actor, following a cyber incident last weekend....

Financial planning

Advice licensees have work to do on improving their documentation of systems and processes or risk falling foul of the regulator....

People & Products

Online threats against Australian financial services firms have almost tripled in the first half of 2022, according to software company Imperva. ...

Financial planning

Financial advice firms are increasingly looking to regulatory technology in an effort to offset the rising cost of compliance, according to a new report....

Financial planning

A specialist cybersecurity lawyer has shared six tips for advisers to mitigate the risk of attacks, following evolving updates from the Optus and Medibank data breaches. ...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is working to rectify its systems after identifying a cyber attack affecting Australian credit licence applications....

People & Products

Willis Towers Watson has appointed a cyber specialist to its financial lines team, effective immediately....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has suggested a significant cyber security incident is probably inevitable....

Financial planning

Digital advice providers and AFSLs should note that cyber security threats and data privacy breaches could go hand-in-hand following new legislation tabled in Parliament ...

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