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BCG consultants’ massive visa fail win

More than $90 million was spent by government on its failed plan to privatise the visa processing system, but the Boston Consulting Group still came up trumps, landing nearly...

AWS tracing deal a disgrace: Rex Patrick

30 April 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The contract handed to American tech giant Amazon to handle the cloud storage of data from the COVID-19 contact tracing app is a “disgrace” and more must done to...

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 strategy to address COVID-19

6 April 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The revamped Australian Government Cyber Security Strategy will address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it is unclear when policy re-write will be released. The Department of Home...

Govt told to ditch visa outsource plan

2 March 2020 | by Denham Sadler

A Senate committee has ordered the government to ditch its visa outsourcing plans, which has already cost $87 million before a bidder has even been selected. The Senate committee,...

Visa outsource plan ‘dead in the water’

3 February 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The federal government’s $1 billion plan to outsource the visa processing system is now “dead in the water” after revelations it will require new legislation, according to the Opposition....

Encryption laws not used to fight terrorism

3 February 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The controversial anti-encryption powers have not been used once to fight terrorism, despite government using this as the justification to rush the legislation through Parliament a year ago. The...

Encryption powers used 25 times already

28 January 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The federal government’s highly controversial new encryption-busting powers have been used at least 25 times since they came into effect a year ago. A Home Affairs’ annual report on...

Medicare data bill gets the nod

2 December 2019 | by Denham Sadler

Controversial legislation greatly expanding the scope of Medicare data-matching is set to sail through Parliament after Labor offered its full support for the bill. The Health Legislation Amendment (Data-matching)...

Data sharing on cyber is critical

27 November 2019 | by Denham Sadler

Some of Australia’s largest institutions have called on the federal government to improve threat intelligence data-sharing to combat nation-state cyber attacks. Multiple submissions from big four banks and Australia’s...

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