Human error has been blamed for the Optus outage that left millions without phone and internet services on Wednesday 8th November 2023. RMIT University associate professor Mark Gregory said information provided by Optus following the outage showed that it was human error, rather than a hardware failure or cyber attack, that caused the disruption. In their announcement, Optus said: “At…
There has been a sharp increase in QR code based phishing attacks – or ‘quishing’ – according to Check Point’s Harmony Email team. Quishing is a growing form of phishing attack that encourages users to scan a QR code that takes them to a page where they provide credentials that can then be used for data theft. These QR code…
As the virtual world encompasses not only our social lives but even company data and reputation, cybersecurity has become a crucial component in the working world. An article on Wired listing cyber attacks in 2022 shows that data breaches and hacks have seized just about any industry, from major telecommunications companies to government institutions. In order to protect organizations…
Guest Author Kevin Streater: Who’s Kevin? Kevin is the Vice President of ForgeRock University – our global technical training organization, or casually known as School of (Forge)Rock. Kevin and team deliver IAM training and certification to ForgeRock’s customers and partners around the world. With 20 years working in the identity industry at companies like Sun Microsystems and The Open University,…
Upskill staff with affordable training at your fingertips SYDNEY — Oct. 24, 2017 – Australian startup WOTBOT today announced its partnership with its TeachWOT online learning product and Red Education. Together, the two companies will provide convenient online network security training programs. “In an industry where there is so much information, so many vendors, and myriad areas of specialisation, we recognised…
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – MAY 01, 2017 – Red Education has been appointed as a ForgeRock Authorised Training Partner (ATP) for Asia Pacific, offering training classes to ForgeRock’s customer base across the region. “With the explosive growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), demand for ForgeRock Digital Identity Management solutions has never been higher. Red Education has made a concerted…
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – MAY 01, 2017 – Red Education announced today that it has signed as an Authorised Training Centre (ATC) for EC-Council. Red Education has been appointed as an ATC for Asia Pacific and will offer many of the EC-Council classes on a public schedule as well as closed classes for its tens of thousands of customers across…
As time goes on, having worked for Red Education for coming up to 7 years, it’s been great to see the evolution of the courses that are offered in Red Education’s portfolio. In particular the new Palo Alto Networks Firewall 8.0 Essentials: Configuration and Management (210) course. This is a brand new 5-day course that has been built from Palo…
Check Point has recently released Gaia R80.10 for gateway, and together with the management version released last year, it is a powerful combination you definitely want to get to know better! If you are already running Gaia R77.30 or earlier versions, you will find R80 a little different initially, although the features you love are there when you get to…