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Telstra’s Penn to lead Australian cyber strategy

A permanent 10-person advisory committee, helmed by Telstra boss Andy Penn, has been established to guide the implementation of the federal government’s $1.7 billion cybersecurity strategy. The 2020 Cyber...

Telstra rolls out anti-phishing pilot for feds

16 September 2020 | by Denham Sadler

Telstra will roll out a program to block malicious text messages pretending to be from Services Australia agencies by the end of the year, with the federal government looking...

Matt Tett on the cyber advisory report

23 July 2020 | by Matt Tett

Earlier this week the Department of Home Affairs published the Industry Advisory Panel report which seeks to feed a neat sixty recommendations from industry into Australia’s upcoming 2020 Cyber...

Cyber advisory panel delivers 60 recommendations

21 July 2020 | by Denham Sadler

Increased investment and a series of new initiatives and policy reforms are urgently needed to combat the growing cyber threat and improve resilience across the economy, the federal government’s...

2020 cyber panel ‘does not reflect industry’

14 January 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The federal government’s cybersecurity industry advisory panel is “incredibly out of balance with the reality” of the local sector, according to the founder of Forticode. There are growing concerns...

End of Telstra’s grand bargain

20 June 2018 | by James Riley

One of the many things that the National Broadband Network has done is to finally torpedo Telstra’s grand bargain with the Australian government. Once upon a time this bargain...

Telstra change a shock to Canberra

20 June 2018 | by James Riley

Politicians from both sides of the political spectrum have reacted with “shock” and “disappointment” at news of Telstra’s major restructuring and slashing of 8000 jobs. The federal government used...

Andy Penn on our Asia future

7 February 2018 | by James Riley

Telstra chief executive Andy Penn has nominated the development of next-generation skills and capabilities as the key ingredient for capitalising on the current wave of disruptive technological change. Speaking...

Telstra switches to new spin cycle

17 August 2016 | by James Riley

Ever since David Thodey stepped down from the top job at Telstra, there’s been a growing and nagging sense that things are not quite as fabulous as they were....

Google Schmoogle: Telstra takes aim

18 May 2016 | by Michael Sainsbury

‘Google Schmoogle’ was a phrase famously coined by former Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo as he batted away concerns that the search engine giant, back in 2005 as a...

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