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MacGibbon backs Azure status

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 puts a cloud over Azure

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Signals Directorate has placed an unusual caveat on the much-lauded ‘Protected’ security status it signed off for Microsoft’s Azure public cloud, publishing a special “Consumer Guide” for...

Cloud creds: AWS and Azure arrive

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is game on in the burgeoning Federal government cloud services market as public cloud “gorillas” Microsoft and AWS move to score data security credentials that have been held...

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...

MacGov doubles down on cloud

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Cloud has moved beyond proof of concept implementations in Australia to wide-ranging roll-outs across most departments and ministries. Current government policy, according to the DTA, requires agencies to consider...

Ingram on benefits of disclosure

Posted on   |  by Andrew Ryan
The recent disclosure by the Australian Signals Directorate that a defence contractor had lost 30 gigabytes of sensitive, but not classified, data to hacking caused a flap in the...

ASD disclosure is a good thing

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Signals Directorate should be applauded for sharing publicly the details of a serious data breach at an Australian defence contractor at a conference for cyber security professionals...

No charges laid for cyber attacks

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s cyber spooks say they responded to more than 600 “serious incidents” in the last year, and yet no charges and no prosecutions have been made as a result...

Cyber offense is our best defence?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Hot on the heels of the recent Petya ransomware attack, the Federal government has shifted from being coy about Australia’s offensive cyber capability to publicly directing the Australian Signals...

ASD refreshes cyber guidelines

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Australian Signals Directorate has updated its baseline cybersecurity procedures for the first time in three years, with the government intelligence agency now advising all businesses to disable Flash...