Eagle eyed readers and records management wonks will have noticed a circular reference between the National Archives of Australia’s Administrative Functions Disposal Authority and the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Information Security Manual, regarding system backups. The ISM, until the most recent update, stated: Retention periods for backupsTo prevent backups from being retained for an insufficient amount of time

We have recently had two of our very first interns from the Australian National University complete an internship program with us. It was a mutually fantastic experience worth highlighting due to the learnings and contributions made. Both Ming and Manuwai made such an impression on us that they have officially become part of the Castlepoint Systems team, and we are so pleased to have them.   As a relatively new company ourselves, we can

The Register reports that, due to human error, 145,000 KPMG Microsoft Teams user chats were deleted, and can’t be recovered. KMPG was using retention policies in Teams, which have some broader limitations and risks for compliance. Unfortunately, in attempting to modify the policy for one user, they modified it for all, and deleted chat threads across the whole

New Australian Signals Directorate Director-General Ms Rachel Noble PSM spoke today at the ANU National Security College. Castlepoint CEO Rachael Greaves was invited to attend as a representative of the Australian information security technology ecosystem. The topic was ‘Long histories, short memories: the transparently secret ASD in 2020’, and you can see the speech online on the National Security

The National Archives of Australia has just released the exposure draft of the new records and information management policy, that will follow on from the Digital Continuity 2020 standard. The new policy is called Building Trust in the Public Record, and the theme is very much on integrity and accountability. While the thrust of the message may