Tag: Macquarie Telecom

Productivity Commission ignores capabilities Australia already has

Posted on   |  by Marcus Thompson
Productivity and competition go hand in hand, so it’s no great surprise that the Productivity Commission’s (PC) five-yearly productivity inquiry doesn’t advocate for increased sovereign capability across the Australian...

$32m extension to Tax Office cyber deal

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Tax Office has renewed its main cybersecurity support deal with Macquarie Telecom’s government arm at a cost of $32.7 million, as it battles as many as three million...

MacTel’s $80m data centre boost

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Macquarie Telecom’s Sydney co-location Intellicentre 3 (IC3) datacentre campus at Macquarie Park is getting an $80 million upgrade as the broad migration to the cloud continues at pace. Cloud...

Labor tax plan for procurement

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Overlooked in the detail of the mainstream battle over the future of the tax system in Australia is a Labor plan to force multinational companies to details their tax...

Telco’s brace for ACCC draft report

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The ACCC will release a draft report on competition issues in the telecommunications sector within days, just as the industry labours under a barrage of bad publicity following the...

Cyber insurance regulation looms

Posted on   |  by Aimee Chanthadavong
The growing threat that has government and industry driving productive collaboration is in the common efforts to build defences against cyber attack. Former chairman of the US National Security...

Telco sector’s new cyber regulation

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Federal Government has got new legislation through the Senate that will compel telcos to notify authorities when they make changes to their networks after a range of amendments...

Aussies get spooky cloud creds

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Two local tech companies have been certified to store classified government data on their services as the federal government continues its move to cloud storage. Canberra-based companies Vault Systems...