The latest review of New South Wales government agencies’ cybersecurity has revealed a lack of progress and cast more doubt on the impact of state’s dedicated cyber agency, which struggled under a lack of funding certainty last year.
Agencies continue to grant unwarranted privileged access to bureaucrats, developers and suppliers, and left a critical system unmonitored, the state’s auditor general found in its annual audit of internal controls and governance at the biggest agencies.
The lack of cybersecurity maturity is raising the risk of fraud, data breaches and cyber-attacks that could disrupt essential services, the auditor general warned, at a time when some agencies don’t have or have failed to test incident response and disaster recovery plans.
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