The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
The study also found that the percentage of respondents
who believed that the use of encryption increases customers’ trust and
confidence in the organisation’s privacy or data security commitments
had increased from 32 percent in 2008 to 38 percent in 2009, and using
encryption to comply with privacy or data security regulations and
requirements had increased from 13 percent in 2009 to 15 percent in
2009.
In response to some high profile cases of lost
and stolen laptops, together with the increased business use of
smart-phones, the Ponemon study also assessed organisational
approaches to encrypting data held on mobile devices, and found that
more than 64 percent of respondents say it is very important or
important to encrypt employees’ mobile devices and 55 percent believe
that it is very important or important to provide end-to-end email
security for Windows Mobile 6.0/6.1 Professional Edition.
According to PGP’s president and CEO, Phillip Dunkelberger, Australian
organisations are in a unique position to be able to lead the next
generation of privacy and data security regulations in the Asia Pacific
region, and he said "the Ponemon data shows us that Australian
organisations are already taking a proactive approach to protecting
customer information and other valuable data assets.”
Dunkelberger said the study found that 75 percent of Australian
businesses have fully executed or just launched implementation of data
encryption technology while 25 percent are in the process of
implementing encryption in order to protect sensitive information.
“Encryption is most widely used to protect the data held on file
servers, Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and databases. VOIP and
mainframe encryption are the least deployed applications.
“Other high priority activities in 2009 also include data archive and
e-discovery systems with 71percent fully executed or recently launched
and endpoint device control technologies with 70 percent fully executed
or just launched. The activities with the highest in-process response
in 2009 include the implementation of endpoint-based data leak
detection and prevention technologies, identity and access management
systems and strong authentication devices.”
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