Indigenous voices send vital message on intergenerational trauma

A collaboration of Indigenous voices gathered in Perth to discuss solutions on the impacts of intergenerational trauma stemming from forced removal policies. There are currently 20,421 indigenous children in out of home care, representing 37.3 per cent of the out of home care population. Since Kevin Rudd’s apology to Stolen Generation survivors, the rate of forcible children has increased massively. Whilst there are concerns that children being placed in out of home care may experience the same loss of identity and connection to family, country and culture, this should not be...

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Business Process Compromise - Insider and Outsider Threat

Last year I was at a security symposium in Sydney where I bumped into a friend working for a large security vendor. We discussed the latest industry rumours, trends and shared a few interesting stories on breaches - this is when I asked if his firm performs risks assessments for Business Process Compromise (BPC) to which he replied - "No". I was now thinking how on earth do they perform security assessments when they only look at one half of the big picture? Surely the other big half is equally as important? Don't believe me? - what about the big cyber-heist of Bangladesh's Central...

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Number 1 Strategy Guaranteed to Help Your Organisation to Survive Disruption

There are many disciplines that contribute to organisational resilience which include governance, risk, compliance, business continuity, security, emergency and crisis management but whatever the nature of a business disruption is that tests an organisation’s resilience, there will always be the common factor of people being affected. Whether it is staff who are expected to respond and restore the business to business as usual, or stakeholders who do not receive the service they are paying for or the general public who are...

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