New ministerial powers preventing certain datasets from being stored outside of Australia should be handed to the federal government, according to a local cloud services provider and data centre...
Cyber Security
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Australia’s refreshed cybersecurity strategy will build out “six cyber shields” to protect citizens and businesses from malicious actors, according to Home Affairs minister Clare O’Neil. The forthcoming strategy will...
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Authorities will be banned from using facial recognition capabilities operated by the federal government to conduct one-to-many identity matches under re-drafted legislation first proposed more than four years ago....
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Dozens more critical infrastructure assets considered the most susceptible to attack from malicious cyber actors have been declared nationally significant by the Albanese government, including at least one data...
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The federal government has introduced new rules requiring 100 of its largest agencies to appoint chief information security officers, boosting cyber security leadership in Canberra at a time of...
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The ‘hamster wheel’ of the Australian Stock Exchange weighed heavily on one of Australia’s most promising cyber firms, which has opted to return to private investors through French contracting...
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Australia’s cyber agency will pay Deloitte more than $47,000 a day to help run a threat sharing platform that the consulting giant helped to establish, and which almost no...
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Victorian government agencies are “not adequately prepared to prevent cyber-attacks”, the state’s auditor-general has warned, with more than 600,000 public servants yet to begin using multi-factor authentication for network...
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Three consulting firms will rake in close to $70 million over the next three years to help Australia’s cyber spy agency expand beyond Canberra and add almost 2000 staff...
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The Australian government’s cyber experts were not consulted on the awarding of a $23 million grant to an industry body without tender to train thousands of “cyber wardens”, while...
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Making Australia a top 10 digital economy and society by 2030 arguably rests on the government pioneering and perfecting a national digital identity strategy that places strong emphasis on...
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As cybercrime surges across the public and private sectors, global tech companies are being challenged to tighten data localisation and data sovereignty capability while supporting the federal government’s vision...
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“Persistent optimism bias” in cybersecurity reporting by Commonwealth entities is muddying government oversight of the issues, with a parliamentary committee now calling for self-assessments to be subject to an...
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Australia’s privacy watchdog has recommended that the federal government consider implementing the proposed Privacy Act Review reforms in the upcoming cybersecurity strategy. In particular, the Office of the Australian...