Tag: Australian Cyber Security Centre

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...

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 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...

Russia testing new cyber norms

Posted on   |  by James Riley
As Russia gets pinged throughout the western world for going rogue on cyber, Australia’s freshly minted Cyber Ambassador has called for greater international cooperation on punishing malicious cyber activity....

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...

Govt asks Have I Been Pwned?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Government has signed up to the Have I Been Pwned service to monitor its email addresses for breaches and be notified in real-time if one occurs. The...

Our massive cyber task ahead

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The launch of the National Cyber Security Strategy in 2016 was a positive step toward securing Australia, but there is still more do be done, according to Jeremy Hulse,...

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...

ASD search for offensive spooks

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The tech-spooky Australian Signals Directorate has been recruiting for offensive cyber operators this month to boost the nation’s digital warfare capability as a newly-released Federal government report describes the...