The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s (ASPI) border program chief John Coyne has flagged grave concerns about the ability of the nation’s law enforcement to respond to threats that arrive...
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Just days before he was due to lead the largest ever delegation of Australian cybersecurity companies to the giant RSA Conference in San Francisco, AustCyber’s inaugural chief executive Craig...
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The nation’s sovereign wealth fund has backed an Australian venture capital fund for the first time, in a move that could open the floodgates for the local tech and...
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Microsoft Azure has scored the coveted Protected status for its public cloud from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), giving it a big advantage over arch competitor Amazon Web Services...
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Legislation requiring critical infrastructure operators to reveal all outsourced IT work and to give the government the ability to force these entities to take action to reduce national security...
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For every dollar that a business invests in collaborative university research, it reaps $4.50. But the nation needs another 8,000 businesses to get on board if Australia is going...
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A new report by the government’s privacy authority has found that the Department of Health breached the Privacy Act a number of times as part of a bungled release...
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It is game on in the burgeoning Federal government cloud services market as public cloud “gorillas” Microsoft and AWS move to score data security credentials that have been held...
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Legislation extending equity crowdfunding to private companies has been delayed again despite enjoying bipartisan support, meaning the new regime won’t come into effect until at least September, a year...
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One of Australia’s Landing Pads will have to lift off again as it searches for new digs. Austrade’s southeast asia Landing Pad in Singapore is looking for a new...
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Australia’s first all-girl robotics team, Team 4802, also known as Unidentified Moving Machines (UMM) from western Sydney’s Blacktown Girls High School (BGHS), may be just 20 days out from...
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The Australian Government has signed up to the Have I Been Pwned service to monitor its email addresses for breaches and be notified in real-time if one occurs. The...
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A motion calling on government to support strong encryption and resist any attempts to undermine this process has been passed by the Senate. Moved by the Greens and supported...
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The Australian government’s national data authority is facing “unprecedented challenges” following recent global data controversies and the commencement of the data breach notification laws, while its resources are “stretched...