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Govt silent on cyber despite COVID risk

Labor has accused government of neglecting cybersecurity despite the heightened risk due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a number of high-profile hacks of large Australian companies, as the industry...

Rachel Noble is new ASD Director-General

13 December 2019 | by James Riley

The Prime Minister Scott Morrison has appointed the current Australian Cyber Security Centre chief Rachel Noble as the first woman to lead a major Australian spy agency. Ms Noble...

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...

Mike Burgess gets ASIO call-up

9 August 2019 | by James Riley

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

31 July 2019 | 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

20 June 2019 | 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

6 May 2019 | by James Riley

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

26 April 2019 | 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

18 March 2019 | by James Riley

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?

29 October 2018 | 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...

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