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National interest plan could drive local cyber sector

The launch of an Australian national interest strategy could help propel the growth of the local cybersecurity sector and assist the economic recovery from COVID-19, according to AustCyber chief...

Brian Schmidt on the ANU’s 2018 cyber attack

24 September 2020 | by Liam Tung

The Australian National University’s Vice Chancellor Brian Schmidt talks about lessons learned after its devastating data breach in 2018 and explains why cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility. It was just...

Rethinking regulation for the new cyber age

20 August 2020 | by Stuart Kennedy

The time is right for a shake-up in global tech regulation regimes in this era of rapid technology evolution such as 5G, artificial intelligence and machine learning. While acknowledging...

NSW sovereign capability taskforce named

19 August 2020 | by James Riley

The NSW government has named a 23-person ICT/Digital Sovereign Procurement Taskforce charged with making it easier for innovative local tech companies to get access to government contracts, using procurement...

Cyber strategy a missed local opportunity

6 August 2020 | by James Riley

If anyone were waiting on the Australian Government Cyber Security Strategy 2020 to include a set of industry policies that would help grow the local cyber security sector, they...

Digital trust and sovereign cyber capability

13 July 2020 | by James Riley

For a government that has turned its attention to sovereign capability and supply chain issues in its response to the coronavirus pandemic, industry growth centre AustCyber has come up...

Sovereign capability and that shocking AWS deal

28 April 2020 | by James Riley

There have been a lot of fine people running around with their hair on fire yelling about sovereign capability holes in the manufacturing sector, specifically in relation to COVID...

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...

Adrian Turner on structural change

25 November 2019 | by James Riley

The Australian economy is at a “pivotal fork in the road” and the next three to five years will decide whether the nation is able to extract its share...

Mike Burgess offers new cyber era

22 August 2019 | by James Riley

Having the director-general of an intelligence agency sitting as a director on the board of Australia’s industry development organisation focused on cyber is either the best thing ever or...

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