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Mike Burgess gets ASIO call-up

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...

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 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...

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...

‘Gold standard’ under a cloud

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is unfortunate Federal Government processes for certifying and classifying outsourced cloud services for use by Government has become a matter of controversy. It is even more unfortunate to...

AWS’ pursuit of Protected status

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Amazon Web Services will not build dedicated facilities in Canberra to host sensitive government data, and is instead seeking Australian Signals Directorate sign-off to host citizen data to Protected-level...

ASD brawl over Microsoft

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Signals Directorate executive at the centre of an internal brawl over Microsoft’s Azure and Office365 cloud services being granted Protected Certification has quietly departed the intelligence agency....