Tag: NSW Auditor-General

Govt consultants unchecked as NSW agencies flout rules

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
NSW agencies continue to direct source consultants and often fail to obtain conflicts of interest or evaluate their performance, despite the Minns government’s clampdown and years of warnings. The...

NSW Police tech overhaul stalls as costs blow out

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A decade-long upgrade of New South Wales’ core policing system will cost another $493 million and take four years more to complete, a damning audit of the troubled project...

Damning cybersecurity audit of NSW Health revealed

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Public hospitals in NSW have been operating below both state and federal cybersecurity minimum standards and would be unprepared to deal with a cyber-attack, a damning audit has revealed....

Flagship NSW digital health project at risk of cost blowout

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
New South Wales’ flagship digital health record project is at risk of a budget blowout after officials significantly underestimated the cost of integrating the new platform with legacy hospital...

Most NSW agencies deploying AI without policy

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Most NSW government agencies do not have dedicated AI policies in place, an audit shows, as the state rolls out more than 350 different AI tools in areas like...

Creaking state servers expose ‘crown jewels’ tech applications

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
NSW and Victorian government agencies are running swathes of unsupported legacy infrastructure, at times without formal risk assessment and planning despite the systems housing so called “crown jewels” applications....

NSW auditor delays release of leaked cybersecurity report

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A damning audit exposing cybersecurity failings at four of New South Wales’ six local health districts will be kept under wraps until December after the draft report was leaked...

Call for AI inventories as tech sprawls across universities

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Artificial intelligence is being deployed across NSW universities without central oversight, policies or strategies, leaving several institutions without a “complete understanding” of their use, a new audit has revealed....

NSW govt cybersecurity review under way

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A root and branch review of cybersecurity is underway in New South Wales as the state government looks to hone in on the structural issues behind cyber hygiene problems,...