Australian Signals Directorate updates 'Top 4' security guides and other top stories.

• Australian Signals Directorate updates 'Top 4' security guides

  

  The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has updated a number of its guides to implementing its ‘Top 4’ security strategies for mitigating targeted cyber intrusions.According to the ASD, at least 85 per cent of the the targeted cyber intrusions that it responds to could be prevented by the four strategies.Those strategies are application whitelisting, application patching, OS patching, and the restriction of administration privileges based on user duties.The ASD has released a suite of new or u..

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