Tag: Alastair MacGibbon

Cyber is key to Defence work: Pyne

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian government has opened the door to its fifth Joint Cyber Security Centre (JCSC) in Adelaide to signal its ongoing commitment to provide platforms for public-private cyber intelligence...

Where to now for cyber policy?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is clear that 2018 has been a watershed year for cyber security across the public sector. The federal government cyber apparatus been substantially restructured, and the philosophical thinking...

Look beyond cyber audits: ASD

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Damning audits of government departments and agencies do not paint the full picture of the state of play in public sector cyber security, according to Australian Signals Directorate chief...

ASD brawl over Microsoft

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Signals Directorate executive at the centre of an internal brawl over Microsoft’s Azure and Office365 cloud services being granted Protected Certification has quietly departed the intelligence agency....

ASD confirms new cyber manual

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australian Signals Directorate chief Mike Burgess has confirmed a new draft of the Commonwealth’s Information Security Manual is being circulated across government under a new proposed title of Cyber...

Govt rewrites security manual

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A quite fundamental shift in Australian Government cyber security policies and practices was on public display last week through Senate estimates, with revelations that the baseline rules in the...

Cyber centres for Hobart, Darwin

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Turnbull government’s slow off the blocks Joint Cyber Security Centre program will hoist its flag in Hobart and Darwin, as Federal cyber czar Alastair MacGibbon promised to ‘do...

MacGibbon backs Azure status

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The nation’s National Cyber Security Adviser and deputy director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate Alastair MacGibbon says he is “very, very satisfied” with risk mitigation measures deployed by Microsoft...

ASD’s Burgess slams mandarins

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The new boss of the Australian Signals Directorate has come down hard on Federal agency chiefs who don’t put strong cyber risk management strategies in place. ASD director Mike...