Tag: Andy Penn

Govt cyber reset to make Australia ‘most secure’ country

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia will be “the world’s most cyber-secure country by 2030” under an ambitious new plan outlined by Cyber minister Clare O’Neil in Canberra on Thursday. It includes an entirely...

Telstra’s Penn to lead Australian cyber strategy

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A permanent 10-person advisory committee, helmed by Telstra boss Andy Penn, has been established to guide the implementation of the federal government’s $1.7 billion cybersecurity strategy. The 2020 Cyber...

Telstra rolls out anti-phishing pilot for feds

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Telstra will roll out a program to block malicious text messages pretending to be from Services Australia agencies by the end of the year, with the federal government looking...

Matt Tett on the cyber advisory report

Posted on   |  by Matt Tett
Earlier this week the Department of Home Affairs published the Industry Advisory Panel report which seeks to feed a neat sixty recommendations from industry into Australia’s upcoming 2020 Cyber...

Cyber advisory panel delivers 60 recommendations

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Increased investment and a series of new initiatives and policy reforms are urgently needed to combat the growing cyber threat and improve resilience across the economy, the federal government’s...

2020 cyber panel ‘does not reflect industry’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s cybersecurity industry advisory panel is “incredibly out of balance with the reality” of the local sector, according to the founder of Forticode. There are growing concerns...

End of Telstra’s grand bargain

Posted on   |  by James Riley
One of the many things that the National Broadband Network has done is to finally torpedo Telstra’s grand bargain with the Australian government. Once upon a time this bargain...