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Bumpy ride for the Security Manual

The government document that rides herd over Federal agency cyber security has been on a wild ride this year. The normally staid process of updating what is known as...

Digital economy plan set for refresh

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The government is set to unveil its digital economy strategy in the coming months, but delays in releasing the report have been slammed by the Opposition. The strategy had...

Non-tech roles suffer shortages

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The talent shortage in Australia’s technology market is not new, but what has slipped under the radar is an additional gap in the supply of non-technical skills, according to...

Tech giants unveil open data plan

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Technology giants Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter have jointly announced an open-source Data Transfer Project (DTP) designed to allow individuals to directly transfer their files and data between online...

Facial recognition a political problem

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The federal opposition and Greens have backed a call from tech giant Microsoft for governments around the world to regulate the use of facial recognition technology. Microsoft president Brad...

ASD brawl over Microsoft

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The Australian Signals Directorate executive at the centre of an internal brawl over Microsoft’s Azure and Office365 cloud services being granted Protected Certification has quietly departed the intelligence agency....

ASD process a shocker for SMEs

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The Australian Signals Directorate is already taking heavy fire for a perception that Microsoft was not required to meet the same stringent security criteria as its local cloud services...

Husic on ASD cyber certification

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The federal government has serious questions to answer over its “seismic policy shift” on the cloud services accreditation program, shadow digital economy minister Ed Husic said. Speaking in Parliament...

What Jane Halton did next: Vault

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As a career public servant, Jane Halton rose to become one of Australia’s most powerful Mandarins, spending more than a decade as Health secretary, before leaving government in 2016...

MacGibbon backs Azure status

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The nation’s National Cyber Security Adviser and deputy director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate Alastair MacGibbon says he is “very, very satisfied” with risk mitigation measures deployed by Microsoft...