Cyber (In)Security — Issue #206
In this issue:
- From the community — David Gaul on Australia’s Horizon Cyber Security Initiative and what it means for industry; Sanchay Joshi on whether boards are ready to govern cyber risk; and Sahiba Saggar on her journey into GRC as she completes her CyAN mentorship project.
- CyAN news — our March 2026 mentorship cohort completes the programme and joins the network; Bharat Raigangar featured in tahawultech.com on separating AI hype from measurable value; Kim Chandler McDonald shares Protect.ngo‘s “Racing the Cyber Clock” on protecting civil society organisations.
- White Hat IT Security CVE of the Week — Week 29: a SharePoint Server flaw headed for SYSTEM, and Week 28: a perfect 10 in UniFi Connect. Courtesy of White Hat IT Security, led by CyAN member Sandor Féher.
- News from around the world — the EU and UK’s first joint cyber sanctions on Russia, IP cameras as wartime intelligence assets, SonicWall zero-days, the Scattered Spider TfL sentencing, San Francisco’s order against “nudify” apps, and an AI agent breaching Hugging Face.
- Member Spotlight — Jihad Zein, IT, risk and compliance leader at Toll Group, Sydney.
- Upcoming — GISEC GLOBAL 2026, 16–18 September, Dubai (details).
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