According to the latest data from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), the private health sector has again topped the list of sectors with most data breach reports between October to December 2018. Unauthorised and unintended data release [...]
CRN Jan 17 2019 Canberra-based managed IT service provider Forward IT has picked up $1.4 million contract with the Department of Human Services. The contract was scant on details, however, a DHS spokesperson told CRN the deal would see Forward IT [...]
How ForwardIT is gaining ground in government ForwardIT was born after founders - Dom Polegubic, Stephen Seckar and Nick Kattas - spotted an opportunity to provide reliable and local support for small to medium enterprise (SME) businesses across the region. [...]
Forward IT has been awarded new services on the Digital Transformation Agencies Cloud Services Panel: Compute Infrastructure as a Services (UNCLASSIFIED DLM) Compute Infrastructure as a Service (PROTECTED) Storage Infrastructure as a Services (UNCLASSIFIED DLM) Storage Infrastructure as a Service [...]
If you collect personal information from customers and staff, new mandatory data breach reporting laws could impact you. From 22 February 2018 certain types of data breaches must be reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), as [...]
2017 was a huge year for ForwardIT topped off by taking out the no.9 spot in the CRN Fast50. Thank you to our incredible staff behind ForwardIT and clients for making this possible. CRN's editorial director, Steven Kiernan said every year [...]
ForwardIT has been named a finalist for the 2017 Telstra Business Awards ACT Medium Business of the year. We didn't take out the win, but so proud of the team and our amazing clients for your support and making this [...]
Cybercriminals behind the Locky ransomware and Necurs botnet are back in business. Last Friday researchers spotted both delivering nearly 35,000 emails in just a few hours, the first major Locky campaign researchers have seen in months, according to Cisco Talos. [...]
Brazilian cybercriminals are using the original version of the XPan ransomware, targeting small to medium-sized business based in Brazil with the malware. XPan works by penetrating poorly protected remote desktop protocol (RDP) connections. Hackers use those connections to manually install [...]
