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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...
NSW leads the way for states on cyber security
|The appointment of Maria Milosavljevic as the first state government Chief Information Security Officer (CSIO) was an important milestone and step toward making a raised cyber security stance a truly national mission, Macquarie Government managing di...
Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) 2017 Conference – time to shine
|I had the privilege to address the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) 2017 Conference Gala Dinner in Canberra last week. The ACSC Conference is the largest gathering of Cyber Security Professionals in Australia. In an environment where it is wel...
Macquarie Telecom and Dell EMC have their heads in the cloud
|Macquarie announced last week that we had secured Dell Technologies (and its subsidiary Virtustream) as a significant new customer. We are thrilled to be supporting their sizeable investments in Australia and in their Australian customers. Digital tr...
ASD's Top 4 becomes Essential 8
|The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) recently published updated guidance – “Strategies to mitigate cyber security incidents” replacing the older guidance. With this the ASD also expanded its recommended, “Top 4” mitigation techniques...