A $23 million grant for Australia’s small business council to train up to 60,000 cyber wardens over the next three years was handed to the peak body without a competitive process, Treasury officials have confirmed.
The Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) will receive $23.4 million over the next three years after being successful in its Budget bid for a program to “support small businesses build in-house capability to protect against cyber threats”.
The free training program, which spent the last seven months in pilot with the sponsorship of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and Telstra, aims to become the first cyber safety workplace certification or micro-credential for the small business sector”.
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