Tag: Cybersecurity

Cyber, DTA still up in the air

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The reporting lines for key components of the Australian Government cyber security infrastructure remains unsettled following last week’s change of Prime Minister, while the fate of the Digital Transformation...

AEC urged to action on cyber

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Urgent action beyond just buying new equipment is needed to shore up the cybersecurity of Australia’s electoral system, the Opposition’s cyber spokesperson Gai Brodtmann says. In a submission to...

Australia ‘out in the cold’ on cyber

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Australia risks being “left out in the cold” and vulnerable to large-scale cyberattacks if it does not establish a telecommunications security assurance centre, according to RMIT associate professor and...

Cyber and new entrepreneurship

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The federal government’s recent cybersecurity push needs to put a greater focus on entrepreneurship and startups rather than just seeking products and servicing the bigger corporates, according to CyRise...

NSW needs quick cyber overhaul

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A report into how the NSW government responds to cybersecurity incidents by state’s Auditor-General Margaret Crawford found there is no whole-of-government incident detection capability in place. The performance audit...

Former spy boss seeks new agency

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Former spy chief David Irvine says Australia’s capacity to counter threats and criminal activity using cyber investigative tools is “relatively weak” and has called for the creation of a...

NSW govt’s weird cyber problem

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A report from the NSW Auditor General found that a third of NSW government agencies had no cyber attacks at all in 2016-17, a result described as farcical by...

NSW’s first CISO – focus on identity

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The NSW government will reach out across the public and private sectors to build a strong cyber regime for the state under the government’s first chief information security officer...

China and a new cyber arms race

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If there were any doubts about the broad direction of the next wave of technological development, China has put them to rest with a national artificial intelligence strategy amid...