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Azure parades new ASD status

Microsoft Azure has scored the coveted Protected status for its public cloud from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), giving it a big advantage over arch competitor Amazon Web Services...

New laws for critical tech

Legislation requiring critical infrastructure operators to reveal all outsourced IT work and to give the government the ability to force these entities to take action to reduce national security...

Tough partners: Unis and business

For every dollar that a business invests in collaborative university research, it reaps $4.50. But the nation needs another 8,000 businesses to get on board if Australia is going...

Health bungles data release

A new report by the government’s privacy authority has found that the Department of Health breached the Privacy Act a number of times as part of a bungled release...

Cloud creds: AWS and Azure arrive

It is game on in the burgeoning Federal government cloud services market as public cloud “gorillas” Microsoft and AWS move to score data security credentials that have been held...

Harvard blues for DTA’s Slater

Embattled Digital Transformation Agency chief executive Gavin Slater has taken an extended leave of absence from the organisation to undertake a business short-course at Harvard University. The DTA will...

Crowdfund laws delayed, again

Legislation extending equity crowdfunding to private companies has been delayed again despite enjoying bipartisan support, meaning the new regime won’t come into effect until at least September, a year...

Singapore pad in WeWork home?

One of Australia’s Landing Pads will have to lift off again as it searches for new digs. Austrade’s southeast asia Landing Pad in Singapore is looking for a new...

Robot girls are off to Houston

Australia’s first all-girl robotics team, Team 4802, also known as Unidentified Moving Machines (UMM) from western Sydney’s Blacktown Girls High School (BGHS), may be just 20 days out from...

Govt asks Have I Been Pwned?

The Australian Government has signed up to the Have I Been Pwned service to monitor its email addresses for breaches and be notified in real-time if one occurs. The...

Encryption gets a Senate nod

A motion calling on government to support strong encryption and resist any attempts to undermine this process has been passed by the Senate. Moved by the Greens and supported...

Privacy office at breaking point

The Australian government’s national data authority is facing “unprecedented challenges” following recent global data controversies and the commencement of the data breach notification laws, while its resources are “stretched...

DHS RoboDebt project ‘went well’

The Department of Human Services showed it was everything but human during a Senate Committee hearing on Friday delving into the digital delivery of services. The DHS came back...

Copyright reform to bypass tech

Australian startups and tech companies are likely to miss out on significant copyright reforms in a “disappointing result” for the sector. Late last week a Coalition-led senate committee gave...