Tag: ASD

Mike Burgess gets ASIO call-up

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Less than two years ago, Mike Burgess was the chief information security officer within Australia’s largest telecommunications carrier Telstra. From the middle of next month he will become the...

Industry welcomes new ACSC chief

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Cyber security professionals have welcomed the appointment of Rachel Noble to head the Australian Cyber Security Centre as a suitable replacement for the outgoing Alastair MacGibbon, who announced plans...

Who will be our next cyber boss?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There are varying opinions of who should be Australia’s next cyber security chief, what that role should look like, and whether there’s an opportunity for an incoming government to...

MacGibbon departs for private sector

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Alastair MacGibbon has resigned from his role as the head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and National Cyber Security Adviser. Australian Signals Directorate director-general Mike Burgess confirmed...

Govt won’t mandate Essential Eight

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has rejected a recommendation to make the Australian Signals Directorate’s “baseline” Essential Eight cyber mitigation strategies mandatory. Earlier this month the government quietly tabled its response...

ASD launches cyber recruitment blitz

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia’s spy agency has opened up about its offensive cyber warfare capabilities as part of an effort to recruit “many hundreds of people” in the coming years. In a...

ASD opens up on offensive tools

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s signals intelligence agency has outlined publicly for the first time how it decides when to make a security vulnerability public, and when to keep it secret and later...

ACSC shutters 2019 conference

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government’s Australian Cyber Security Centre has quietly shuttered the 2019 iteration of its annual conference leaving the security sector scrambling. The ACSC conference held annually in March/April...

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...