Tag: Mike Burgess

Industry welcomes new ACSC chief

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Cyber security professionals have welcomed the appointment of Rachel Noble to head the Australian Cyber Security Centre as a suitable replacement for the outgoing Alastair MacGibbon, who announced plans...

MacGibbon departs for private sector

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Alastair MacGibbon has resigned from his role as the head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and National Cyber Security Adviser. Australian Signals Directorate director-general Mike Burgess confirmed...

New spotlight on Huawei 5G ban

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
Chinese telecommunications powerhouse Huawei has been given the go ahead to participate in Britain’s 5G network rollouts, media reports out of the UK have confirmed. If UK Secretary of...

ASD opens up on offensive tools

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s signals intelligence agency has outlined publicly for the first time how it decides when to make a security vulnerability public, and when to keep it secret and later...

Where to now for cyber policy?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is clear that 2018 has been a watershed year for cyber security across the public sector. The federal government cyber apparatus been substantially restructured, and the philosophical thinking...

ASD brawl over Microsoft

Posted on   |  by James Riley
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 confirms new cyber manual

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australian Signals Directorate chief Mike Burgess has confirmed a new draft of the Commonwealth’s Information Security Manual is being circulated across government under a new proposed title of Cyber...

Govt rewrites security manual

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A quite fundamental shift in Australian Government cyber security policies and practices was on public display last week through Senate estimates, with revelations that the baseline rules in the...

ASD’s Burgess slams mandarins

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The new boss of the Australian Signals Directorate has come down hard on Federal agency chiefs who don’t put strong cyber risk management strategies in place. ASD director Mike...