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Essential 8 Cyber Security Guidelines
|What are the Essential 8? The Essential Eight are key cyber security strategies developed by the federal government’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and help mitigate against cyber security threats. The ACSC Essential Eight is designed to ...
Top things you need to know about Data Sovereignty
|What is data sovereignty? Data has become the most valuable asset globally, and who controls it is of increasing importance to governments, corporations and individuals alike. Data sovereignty is key to data security, but ‘what is data sovereignty?...
Investing in a local Cyber security capability for Victoria’s Government
|According to the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s latest Annual Cyber Threat Report, State governments reported the second-highest number of cyber security incidents; our police force, hospitals, schools and all agencies delivering critical servi...
How NSW Government Agencies can meet Essential 8
|The ACSC “Essential 8” is a set of IT strategies to establish baseline protection against cyber threats. Essential 8 cyber security is only the minimum subset of the ACSC’s Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents – hence the “Essent...
Sovereign Cyber Security Centre of Excellence
|We are proud to announce a major investment we are making in the New South Wales cybersecurity and digital economy as well as strengthening Australia’s sovereign cybersecurity capability. Purpose-built for cybersecurity and government sovereign sup...
NSW DCJ to use Macquarie Government SOCaaS and SIEMaaS
|Macquarie Government’s partnership with CSO group to deliver SOC and SIEM. We are excited to announce that Macquarie Government has partnered with CSO group to deliver a fully managed Security Monitoring Service, Security Operations Centre (SOC) an...
Defence Minister Peter Dutton Opens Macquarie’s New High Security Data Centre in Canberra
|18 June 2021 – Australia’s Minister for Defence, The Hon. Peter Dutton MP, today officially unveiled Intellicentre 5 Bunker (IC5), highlighting it as critical infrastructure supporting Australia’s data sovereignty, national cyber security and d...
Budget delivers timely infrastructure, cyber and skills boost to Australian economy
|13 May 2021, Macquarie Technology Group (ASX: MAQ) has welcomed the publication of the 2021-22 Federal Budget, particularly its focus on building critical infrastructure, bolstering cyber security in Australia and expanding much-needed digital skills...
What makes a government cloud?
|Since the release of the National Strategy for Cloud Computing in 2013, the Australian Government has continued its trajectory of cloud adoption for the significant benefits cloud offers – greater flexibility, agility, operational efficiencies, sca...
The digital infrastructure you’ll never see
|In a secret location there is a Canberra data centre that’s a silent fortress and a cornerstone of the Australian Government’s digital transformation strategy. At Macquarie’s new Canberra data centres there are hundreds of rack-mounted servers ...