ASIO chief Mike Burgess has delivered a “frank, uncomfortable” assessment of national security challenges, and says rapidly evolving technology – from artificial intelligence to encryption – will make the next five years more dangerous for Australia than the last.
Australia had entered a period of “strategic surprise and security fragility” the director-general of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation told an audience of security analysts and media at the ASIO headquarters on Wednesday.
Delivering his sixth Annual Threat Assessment, Mr Burgess said many of the foundations of Australia’s security and prosperity were now being tested.
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