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Calls for annual reviews of APS cyber resilience

A government-led parliamentary committee has called for annual reviews to be conducted into the cyber resilience of Commonwealth entities with many departments and agencies still not having implemented baseline...

National interest plan could drive local cyber sector

9 December 2020 | by Denham Sadler

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...

Cybersecurity to make a return to cabinet

30 November 2020 | by Denham Sadler

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is set to bring cybersecurity back into Cabinet more than two years after he scrapped the ministerial position. In news handed to The Australian newspaper...

Govt struggle to build strong cyber practices

16 November 2020 | by Tony Kirkby

If you follow cybersecurity, you will know the news is rarely good, and that the digital environment is getting more challenging. Attack volumes have risen significantly since the onset...

Digital tech and Israeli water management

9 November 2020 | by David McClure

Australia and Israel are at once similar and different in the way they handle water management, but as digitisation disrupts water technology both countries must make their water systems...

US election cyber attacks a warning for Aus

2 November 2020 | by Denham Sadler

Recent cyber attacks on the US election are a “salutary warning for Australia”, with the federal government “blind to the threat” of an attack on democratic institutions, shadow assistant...

Australians demand better privacy controls

5 October 2020 | by Angelene Falk

As Australia prepares for a landmark review of the Privacy Act, a comprehensive survey of attitudes towards privacy reveals how Australians want their personal information to be protected now...

TechOne lifts feds with IRAP Protected status

29 September 2020 | by James Riley

Iconic Australian software company TechnologyOne has earned a ‘Protected’ level security assessment through the Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) program, significantly raising the federal government cybersecurity posture at...

Time ripe for 5G sovereign capability: ASPI

22 September 2020 | by Denham Sadler

There is a “window of opportunity” for Australia to develop its 5G sovereign capability and address security issues, and urgent action is needed from the federal government, according to...

Australia’s cyber bark is worse than its bite

11 September 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The Australian government’s cybersecurity bark is worse than its bite, with a new report finding its intentions in cyber is not yet being matched by actual capability. The National...

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