Dozens of local councils across New South Wales are still without basic cybersecurity controls and governance arrangements more than three years after the state’s Auditor-General first raised the alarm.
But the NSW Auditor-General has started to see improvements, with further progress expected following the long-awaited release of cybersecurity guidelines by the Office of Local Government late last year.
In its latest annual audit of the local government sector, the Auditor-General found 63 councils were “yet to implement basic governance and internal controls to manage cybersecurity” in the 2021-22 financial year.
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