Audit exposes hobbled and hollow Defence tech accreditation


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

Defence is conducting a sweeping review of how it authorises ICT systems and will report annually to ministers on compliance after an audit revealed almost none of its systems have current accreditation.

The lack of documented accreditation and the patchy policies that gave rise to it over the last decade have raised concerns about avoidable cyber risks and backdoors into multi-billion-dollar Defence platforms.

Some systems are yet to be authorised …

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