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What's next?
|There are many ways in which the Federal election has turned the usual assumptions on their head and this includes cyber security policy. One of the most interesting is that the ICT sector seems to be finding it harder to answer the “what’s next...
Let's not Push Successful Policies Aside
|In an election period, the conversation naturally turns into a contest and swings between new initiatives being promoted and finger-pointing accusations of past failures. It is easy for long running successful policies to be pushed aside in the heat...
Avoiding the Public Clouds' Hotel California Effect
|Australian taxpayers have a lot at stake as agencies ramp up their transition to modern hybrid IT environments. The legacy outsourced supply contracts many government agencies have endured for years have too often locked them into expensive, inflexib...
Managing Cloud Data Risks - Protected Cloud Certification
|Commonwealth agencies are responsible for managing the risk associated with the loss of any information they hold. All ICT systems used by Federal Government agencies in Australia are required to comply with common rules to ensure they are safe and s...
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...
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...
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...
Cyber Security Challenge, Cyber Resilience, the Role Of Insurance and the Challenge to Public/Private Definitions
|Cyber Security challenging the Relationship between Government and the Private Sector The cyber security challenge is testing the boundaries of our understanding of the relationship between government and the private sector, and cyber insurance could...
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...