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4 Reasons Disaster Recovery is Better in the Cloud
|Whenever you turn on the news, it might feel like there’s a new disaster that’s happening somewhere in the world. Maybe it feels like it will never be you, but the truth is that it’s somebody. And those businesses experiencing that disaster? Ho...
Cyber security and digital government – wannacry or tangible reality?
|Cyber security is now a global front page issue – events such as the #ecensusfail, alleged foreign government interference in political elections, and Wannacry has brought tremendous focus by the consumer, business and government of the risks of be...
US Security Expert Gregory Treverton to be Macquarie's Special Guest
|Macquarie Technology Group is excited to this month host the recently retired chairman of the National Intelligence Council, Gregory Treverton, one of the world’s most respected thinkers on global security and cyber security. The National Intellig...
Hybrid cloud doesn’t mean complicated security setup
|Hybrid cloud security setups We all know cloud is a fantastic and cost effective enabler of flexible IT deployments, but not at the risk (and ultimate cost) of short cutting the security considerations. Many agencies have opted to use public clouds s...
Our New Canberra Home
|This week we move into our new Canberra home for Macquarie Government in the heart of Canberra at level 12, 221 London Circuit Civic from where our view – both literal and metaphorical is far and wide. Our outlook for the business is just as expans...
Urgent: On-going International computer virus WannaCry: What to know, what to do.
|International computer virus ‘WannaCry’ causing havoc. Over the weekend news broke about a global cyber security emergency that has impacted hundreds of thousands of computers around the world. It has caused serious disruption in health care, eme...
Hybrid cloud for Australian government: Virtualisation and security with VMware by Broadcom NSX
|Virtualisation technology and cloud services are making it easier for Government agencies to implement their Digital Transformation strategy. Data-centre virtualisation adoption is on the way up. So is the use of software-defined data centre (SDDC) t...
Macquarie Government Cyber Security Scholarship 2017
|Great candidates for Cyber Security Scholarship 2017 Recently I joined Associate Professor Yun Bai and Dr Rodrigo Calheiros as part of a panel reviewing candidates. Consequently, we were looking at potential candidates for our Cyber Security Scholar...
Cyber Security Moving From Backrooms to Boardrooms
|Australian businesses’ awareness of cyber security risk has exploded in the year since the National Cyber Security Strategy was released, and was becoming “normalised” as a board responsibility, Macquarie Government managing director Aidan Tude...
FBI cyber security, secure cloud and how they respond to cyber threats
|Macquarie Government this month had the opportunity to host Gordon Bitko, the CIO of the FBI, on behalf of the American Chamber of Commerce. I had the opportunity to sit down with Gordon, who agreed to take my questions and those of members of the au...