Tag: cyber security

Cyber war plan two decades late

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government’s recent focus on Australia’s cyber military capabilities is two decades too late and the country remains vulnerable to a range of cyber attacks, a new report...

Welcoming the arrival of robots

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Far from being the harbingers of doom for professional services, the pending arrival of machine learning and artificial intelligence-based automation tools will open up new opportunities for the sector,...

Australia has a board problem

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australian boards of directors must include more young people and focus on driving innovation change to avoid being “smashed” by the upcoming digital revolution, according to Data61 chief executive...

AustCyber’s brand new curriculum

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
AustCyber is readying a nationwide standards for TAFE institutions in an effort to make Australia the “leading force” in cyber security education. AustCyber chief executive Craig Davies said the...

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...

Skills shortage is a glass half full

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Ted Pretty has had a long and celebrated career in the Australian tech sector. The current CEO of data-centric security firm Covata has also held senior positions at Telstra,...

Security ratings for IoT devices?

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has asked industry leaders to develop a mandatory cyber security rating system for Internet of Things devices, but experts say such a scheme would be “enormously...

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,...

Cyber threats from weird places

Posted on   |  by James Riley
When Michael Daniel entered the White House during Obama’s presidency as cybersecurity coordinator, he never thought he’d have to brief the President about how a nation state was attacking...