Tag: Mike Burgess

Mike Burgess offers new cyber era

Posted on   |  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...

Mike Burgess gets ASIO call-up

Posted on   |  by Vitaly
Less than two years ago, Mike Burgess was the chief information security officer within Australia’s largest telecommunications carrier Telstra. From the middle of next month he will become the...

5G a decision that demands scrutiny

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
The Australian government has been caught out and our system of government is now at a crossroad. It is not acceptable that our government, on the pretext of “being...

Industry welcomes new ACSC chief

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Cyber security professionals have welcomed the appointment of Rachel Noble to head the Australian Cyber Security Centre as a suitable replacement for the outgoing Alastair MacGibbon, who announced plans...

MacGibbon departs for private sector

Posted on   |  by Vitaly
Alastair MacGibbon has resigned from his role as the head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and National Cyber Security Adviser. Australian Signals Directorate director-general Mike Burgess confirmed...

New spotlight on Huawei 5G ban

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
Chinese telecommunications powerhouse Huawei has been given the go ahead to participate in Britain’s 5G network rollouts, media reports out of the UK have confirmed. If UK Secretary of...

ASD opens up on offensive tools

Posted on   |  by Vitaly
Australia’s signals intelligence agency has outlined publicly for the first time how it decides when to make a security vulnerability public, and when to keep it secret and later...

Where to now for cyber policy?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is clear that 2018 has been a watershed year for cyber security across the public sector. The federal government cyber apparatus been substantially restructured, and the philosophical thinking...

ASD brawl over Microsoft

Posted on   |  by Vitaly
The Australian Signals Directorate executive at the centre of an internal brawl over Microsoft’s Azure and Office365 cloud services being granted Protected Certification has quietly departed the intelligence agency....