American companies remained the most active investors in the cyber security technology space during the five years between 2014 and 2018, according to a newly published analyst report.

Sophos has beefed up its Asia Pacific channel team with a number of new executive appointments including appointing Jon Fox as channel director for the Asia Pacific Japan region.

Four of Australia’s security firms have questioned whether enough is being done to defend businesses and organisations against security attacks by cybercriminals in the wake of a report by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) revealing malicious or criminal attacks dominated data breaches over a three month period to the end of June.