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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...
Lifting the lid on cyber security and local business
|Minister on Cyber Security, Dan Tehan’s cyber security business story. On a visit to the Macquarie offices in Sydney late last year we heard a story on cyber security business. The Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Cyber Security, Dan Tehan,...
Dealing with smarter and nastier Cyber attacks in 2017
|The first month of the year is usually when one tends to look back at the previous year, take some learnings and plan for a more successful outing, the same applies in the world of cyber security as well. Looking back at 2016, we can’t just help ke...
Census Review a Map to Strengthen Weak Cyber Links
|The recommendations in the review of the August Census failure represented a new approach to providing agencies with better support and advice as they transition to a digital world, Macquarie Technology Group Managing Director of Hosting and Governme...
Building a strong technology and cyber security capability for Australia
|In my last blog I put forward a 5 pronged approach to cyber security. There has been much discussion this week in Washington DC at the AU-US Cyber Security Dialogue about the third element – “Building a strong technology and security capability...
2016: The year focus on Cyber Security took off in Australia
|As I made the journey across to Washington DC for the inaugural Australia-US Cyber Security Dialogue, I reflected on just how much mileage there has been on the cyber security front in the last 6 months. I start the timeline in April when the Prime...
Macquarie Government at Washington DC Cyber Security Summit
|This week I am proud to be representing Macquarie Government in Washington DC as part of the Australian delegation to the inaugural Australia-US Cyber Security Dialogue. The dialogue – organised by the Australian Strategic policy Institute and its ...
Poorly Defended Business and Home Computers Contribute to ABS Attack: Macquarie Government Says
|Watch the video – Cyber security expert @Tudehope1 says businesses need to take the threat of cyber attacks more seriously Listen to the radio interview – Aidan Tudehope, the Managing Director of Macquarie Government talks about DDOS attac...