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Macquarie Announces New Canberra Government Data Centre
|Macquarie Data Centres invest $100M in Australian data centres this year with both Fortune 100 and 42% of Federal Government now leveraging its facilities. Macq...
The role of Email and Network Sandboxing in Gateways.
|The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Gateway Technology Guides cover a range of topics, including sandbox technology. According to the guide, a sandbox is a secure environment where potentially malicious code can be executed safely, away fr...
Data Loss Prevention for Australian Government
|Australian government agencies handle sensitive information related to our national security, citizens’ personal information, and other confidential data. The consequences of a data breach can be severe and can lead to a loss of public trust, finan...
ATO Renews Cyber Security Contract with Macquarie Government
|The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has extended its cybersecurity support deal with Macquarie Government at a cost of $32.7 million. The secure internet gateway (SIG) and cybersecurity services contract has been extended until December 2024 and the tota...
The role of Security Domains in Gateway Design
|Secure Internet Gateways like Macquarie Government’s SIGNET play an important role in protecting digital government. To better understand how gateways work, it helps to understand the “security domains” they protect. In an earlier post, we d...
What is SOCI?
|In the past 12 months, amendments to the Securing of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) and the new Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure Protection) (SLACIP) Acts passed parliament, expanding both the industries covered and requirement...
Cyber Bulletin - October 2022
|“Side door” infiltration through users replicating their credentials on external websites. This bulletin uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework, Version 11. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise framewor...
ACSC Gateway Security Guidance
|The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) recently released a Gateway Security Guidance Package. The Guidance was developed with input from industry, including Macquarie Government, gained during a series of co-design workshops. Its main purpose is...
Media Release: Joining the VMWare Sovereign Cloud initiative
|2 August 2022, Macquarie Telecom Group (ASX: MAQ) today became a member of the VMware Sovereign Cloud initiative, a reflection of the company’s decade-long commitment to sovereign IT capability. The growing importance of data sovereignty, scrutiny ...
Essential 8 Maturity Model
|ACSC cyber security mitigation strategies. The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) is the Australian Government’s lead agency for cyber security. From experience of cyber security incidents and through vulnerability testing of various governmen...