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ASIC slams licensees' lax offshoring governance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2025
... outsourcing solutions to Australian licensees to understand the services and infrastructure they offered and their cyber security arrangements. The services typically outsourced to these providers are financial planning, including client data entry and ...

FEATURE: Problem detected

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2025
... super sector's united approach to keeping data and member funds safe," Delahunty says. "We released the ASFA Cyber Security Toolkit in May 2025, to provide clear guidance on navigating obligations under CPS230, CPS234, and various legislation so ...

PE firm sells CyberCX to Accenture

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
Accenture will acquire trans-Tasman cyber security firm CyberCX from private equity firm BGH Capital. Founded in Melbourne in 2019, CyberCX has about 1400 employees and provides consulting, transformation and managed security services, as well as offensive ...

APRA expects 'no cutting corners' with CPS230

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
... But that's coming at the tradeoff of the quality of service and things like the proper level of investment in cyber security and protection against crime and so on. So, it is a balance." McCarthy Hockey said that "recent events have helped very much ...

Super funds, banks say cybersecurity is now their biggest concern

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
APRA's 2025 Stakeholder Survey shows that cyber security risk has emerged as the topmost concern in financial services. The survey, which gathered responses from 262 financial institutions, revealed that the threat of cyber security was listed as a ...

NZ Super appoints inaugural chief operating officer

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... process, and corporate strategy. Steed will also spearhead its business solutions, cloud operations, data technology, cyber security, and service desk, the fund said. Steed joined the super fund as its general manager in finance and investment operations ...

Breaches continue as Cbus confirms 'unusual behaviour'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... Cbus confirmed the incident was reported to APRA over the weekend and has also been passed on to the Australian Cyber Security Centre. "The fund is continuing to investigate this event with our cyber security partners," Cbus said. "This cyber-incident ...

Perpetual to build digital wholesale term deposit marketplace

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... enable the wholesale term deposit market to operate more effectively, efficiently and economically, while managing cyber security and maintaining compliance." Perpetual Corporate Trust said it is looking to streamline and modernise the execution of these ...

Cybercriminals attack major super funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
... responded immediately by shutting down the member access portal, undertaking investigations, and launching its cyber security incident response protocol. Nevertheless, she said this will be "very concerning" for impacted members, adding the fund is "very ...

Government plans to develop 'fit for purpose' digital asset regime

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
Treasurer Jim Chalmers and special envoy for cyber security and digital resilience Andrew Charlton have announced plans to develop a digital asset regime, aimed at providing clarity and certainty to the sector. They said this initiative would help to ...