Tag: Cybersecurity

Govt fails to meet own cyber standards: ANAO

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
None of the government entities recently examined by an Australian National Audit Office review have fully implemented the mandatory cyber security risk mitigation strategies developed eight years ago to...

Ransomware report a ‘missed opportunity’: Watts

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A government advisory group’s report on ransomware calling on Australian businesses to implement basic cybersecurity practices to mitigate risks is a “missed opportunity”. The Cyber Security Strategy Industry Advisory...

Govt launches $26.5m cyber skills grant program

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Grants of up to $3 million are on offer for cybersecurity training programs as part of a $26.5 million national cybersecurity strategy initiative officially launched by the federal government...

Calls for annual reviews of APS cyber resilience

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A government-led parliamentary committee has called for annual reviews to be conducted into the cyber resilience of Commonwealth entities with many departments and agencies still not having implemented baseline...

National interest plan could drive local cyber sector

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The launch of an Australian national interest strategy could help propel the growth of the local cybersecurity sector and assist the economic recovery from COVID-19, according to AustCyber chief...

Cybersecurity to make a return to cabinet

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is set to bring cybersecurity back into Cabinet more than two years after he scrapped the ministerial position. In news handed to The Australian newspaper...

Govt struggle to build strong cyber practices

Posted on   |  by Tony Kirkby
If you follow cybersecurity, you will know the news is rarely good, and that the digital environment is getting more challenging. Attack volumes have risen significantly since the onset...

Digital tech and Israeli water management

Posted on   |  by David McClure
Australia and Israel are at once similar and different in the way they handle water management, but as digitisation disrupts water technology both countries must make their water systems...

US election cyber attacks a warning for Aus

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Recent cyber attacks on the US election are a “salutary warning for Australia”, with the federal government “blind to the threat” of an attack on democratic institutions, shadow assistant...