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Consultants land $70m for REDSPICE ramp-up

Three consulting firms will rake in close to $70 million over the next three years to help Australia’s cyber spy agency expand beyond Canberra and add almost 2000 staff...

Calls for safe harbour cyber laws grow louder

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The case for a temporary safe harbour to improve information sharing between businesses and government during a cyber-attack is building, with Australia’s key business lobby the latest to recommend...

Cyber spy agency looks to industry for REDSPICE rollout

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Australian Signals Directorate is outsourcing key elements of its landmark national security uplift program, going to market this week for industry partners to help the cyber spy agency...

Cyber threat platform costing govt $59k a day

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The bill for the federal government’s automated cyber threat sharing platform has skyrocketed to more than $59,000 a day because of the expansion into bidirectional sharing, increased industry participation,...

KPMG to be paid $1.2m-a-month to work on REDSPICE

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Accounting multinational KPMG will be paid nearly $10 million over the next eight months to assist with the implementation of the 10-year, $10 billion REDSPICE cyber program, which aims...

Anthony Albanese: All quiet on the cyber front

Posted on   |  by James Riley
You can only guess that Josh Frydenberg’s commitment of $9.9 billion to the Australian Signals Directorate for a cyber defensive and offensive capability uplift caught Labor by surprise. Because...