Tag: Cybersecurity

NSW unis overlook national cyber laws

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
NSW universities overlooked federal laws designed to help protect critical infrastructure assets from cyber incidents in their first full year of operation by failing to identify critical systems and...

Victorian Govt moves to ‘Australian-first’ cyber sourcing deal

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Victorian government has launched an “Australian-first” state purchasing contract for cybersecurity goods and services which will “dramatically reduce” workloads for departments and save time and money. The new...

Australian cyber needs its ‘slip, slop, slap’ moment

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s national mission to become one of the world’s most cybersecure nations hinges on building public awareness and opening up the profession, the government’s cyber coordinator said on Wednesday....

$206m for cyber and data uplift amid business register fallout

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
A $206.4 million Budget commitment to improved data capability and cybersecurity has been given to Australia’s two financial regulators, among a series of smaller cyber upgrades. The funding, included...

Australia sanctions second Russian cybercriminal

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Albanese government has deployed its autonomous cyber sanction powers for the second time, joining the United States and United Kingdom in imposing restrictions on another alleged Russian hacker....

The new playbook for public sector cybersecurity

Posted on   |  by Jason Stevens
In the recent Verizon paper, Decoding a hacker’s playbook in public sector cybersecurity, CTRL Group’s co-founder and chief product officer, Bastien Treptel, joined Innovation Aus.com publisher Corrie McLeod, to discuss public...

WA unveils draft digital acceleration strategy

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Western Australian government wants to raise the state’s digital readiness index score, one of several measurable goals outlined in a draft of its WA: Digitally Evolved – Digital...

Big Tech and the intelligence power shift since MH17

Posted on   |  by Jason Stevens
Investigating MH17 unlocked the role of big data in assembling a criminal brief, pioneering the use of open-source intelligence.   “I became interested in how big data was being used...

ASD plugs Microsoft intel into cyber threat platform

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Global cyber threat intel from Microsoft will feed directly into the federal government’s threat intelligence sharing platform at machine speed in a move designed to boost Australia’s cyber defences....