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Improving, But Work to be Done Yet: Chris Painter's Verdict on Global Cyber Awareness
|Chris Painter is a veteran attendee at the Munich Security Conference, so his reflections on the changed mood around cyber security at this year’s conference bear attention. the former US Cyber Co-ordinator, White House Cyber Security Adviser, FBI...
Former US Top Cyber Security Diplomat Chris Painter Comes to Canberra, Sydney, Warns of Escalating Cyber Threats
|Chris Painter, Former U.S. Top Cyber Security Diplomat From late February to March Macquarie Government are sponsoring a series of events with former top US cyber security diplomat Chris Painter presenting on the escalating cyber security threats to ...
Cyber Security Standards and Definitions are Required to Lift NSW Government's Cyber Security Capability
|A common NSW Government cyber security foundation is required. It’s been said that you can’t improve what you can’t measure, and it holds just as true for cyber security standards measures. Similarly, you can’t measure what you haven’t def...
Critical Intel, AMD and ARM Processor Vulnerability, Cyber Security Impacted
|Over the last 48 hours, details of two critical hardware vulnerabilities Spectre (CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715) and Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) emerged that impact the majority of computers running Intel processors (Spectre and Meltdown), AMD and AR...
Turning Canberra into a Global Digital Hub
|The Government has set its sights on making our national capital a global digital hub. Through initiatives such as Digital Canberra, developing a cloud computing-friendly environment, and harnessing the city’s technology-focused entrepreneurs and i...
Will 2017 be an inflection point for the Australian Government's digital transformation?
|Recently I pondered whether 2017 would be remembered as the Australian Government’s inflection-point year for digital transformation and cyber security. As I mulled this over it became clear that this year may indeed be the inflection point – a y...
Cloud entrepreneur and technologist to head Macquarie Government Cloud business
|Macquarie Government has appointed experienced entrepreneur and technologist Bart Thomas as General Manager, Government Cloud, a key leadership appointment in its rapidly growing built-for-government cloud business. “Bart’s appointment fills a ke...
New critical infrastructure cyber security compliance and oversight a must
|Proposed new cyber security laws to give the Government powers to direct the owners and operators of critical infrastructure were needed in the face of modern cyber threats to the Australian economy and way of life. Cyber economic warfare was a daily...
Macquarie Government Certified by Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), Again
|This week, Macquarie Government has been added to Australian Signals Directorate‘s Certified Cloud Services List (CCSL) for PROTECTED (Classified) data. This new certification adds to the existing DLM (Unclassified) certification (May 2015) an...
Macquarie Government achieves PROTECTED cloud accreditation for government cloud
|Macquarie Government, the most experienced service provider to federal agencies, has emerged from a stringent and rigorous Federal Government assessment process accredited to provide “PROTECTED” cloud computing services. This is currently the hig...