Tag: Cyber Security NSW

NSW cyber lead gets deputy national cyber coordinator role

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Department of Home Affairs has poached New South Wales’ chief cybersecurity officer Tony Chapman, appointing him as deputy national cyber security coordinator as part of a major public...

Huge holes in NSW govt IT access, cybersecurity

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The latest review of New South Wales government agencies’ cybersecurity has revealed a lack of progress and cast more doubt on the impact of state’s dedicated cyber agency, which...

NSW local councils still lack basic cyber controls

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Dozens of local councils across New South Wales are still without basic cybersecurity controls and governance arrangements more than three years after the state’s Auditor-General first raised the alarm....

NSW cyber agency faces $70m funding ‘shortfall’

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A decision by the former New South Wales Coalition government’s not to fund the state’s cybersecurity agency beyond next financial year, despite the growing importance of response and recovery,...

22k vulnerabilities in NSW govt systems uncovered last year

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
In-house threat hunters based in regional New South Wales uncovered and remediated more than 22,000 vulnerabilities in state government and local council systems last year through proactive monitoring. That’s...

NSW cyber agency has ‘no plan’ and ‘no authority’

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The New South Wales government’s cyber agency is yet to verify other agencies’ security claims and has “no plan” to realise its maturity uplift target, despite a massive funding...