The Department of Defence can’t attract and retain enough cybersecurity workers, and has turned to nurses and miners to build out its teams as it faces twin “existential” challenges...
Controversial global consulting giant McKinsey will have a key role in the development of Australia’s cybersecurity strategy, 18 months after the government was widely criticised for using the company...
The fevered anticipation about which nuclear submarines Australia will acquire and where they will be built is understandable. It’s a decades long program worth hundreds of billions of dollars....
Critical infrastructure operators could face a collective regulatory burden of $1 billion each year following the commencement of the final tranche of obligations under the Security of Critical Infrastructure...
Tech Council of Australia chief executive Kate Pounder has warned that Australia should not accept growing cyber threats as the cost of doing business online, saying that greater investment...
A new industry association has set out to establish a cyber intelligence sharing community to help boost the cyber resilience of the largest and smallest critical infrastructure providers in...
Shadow home affairs minister Karen Andrews has reintroduced the former government’s ransomware bill without significant alterations and criticised the Albanese government for a lack of action on cybersecurity reform....
To help cultivate cybersecurity leadership in Australia, cybersecurity accelerator CyRise has teamed up with the Australian Information Security Association to launch an invite-only network and peer-to-peer education program. CyRise...
Defence deputy secretary Peter Tesch is Australia’s principal for the AUKUS Trilateral Joint Steering Group on advanced capabilities. Mr Tesch was appointed deputy secretary of the Department of Defence...
Almost 75 percent of federal government entities were struggling to fully-implement the Essential Eight cyber security controls at the start of the pandemic, casting fresh doubts on whether they...