Federal agencies go backwards on cybersecurity basics


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

Federal agencies are going backwards on basic cybersecurity, with just 15 per cent of entities meeting a minimum level of overall maturity last year, and more than two-thirds failing on individual protections like multifactor authentication and privileged access.

The drop follows a tightening of the way that controls are assessed and a rise in legacy technology barriers, but some measures went backwards regardless of these factors.

The slow Commonwealth cyber …

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