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Cyber Security, Community Fear and Maintaining Trust – a Rare Insight into Duncan Lewis, an Australian Security Czar
|ASIO Director General Duncan Lewis provided some rare and frank insights into his perspective on his job, false perceptions of and within government, international cyber security challenges and the balance of public interest and private rights in a r...
Former US Top Cyber Security Diplomat Chris Painter Comes to Canberra, Sydney, Warns of Escalating Cyber Threats
|Chris Painter, Former U.S. Top Cyber Security Diplomat From late February to March Macquarie Government are sponsoring a series of events with former top US cyber security diplomat Chris Painter presenting on the escalating cyber security threats to ...
Turning Canberra into a Global Digital Hub
|The Government has set its sights on making our national capital a global digital hub. Through initiatives such as Digital Canberra, developing a cloud computing-friendly environment, and harnessing the city’s technology-focused entrepreneurs and i...
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...
Macquarie Government Certified by Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), Again
|This week, Macquarie Government has been added to Australian Signals Directorate‘s Certified Cloud Services List (CCSL) for PROTECTED (Classified) data. This new certification adds to the existing DLM (Unclassified) certification (May 2015) an...
Macquarie Government achieves PROTECTED cloud accreditation for government cloud
|Macquarie Government, the most experienced service provider to federal agencies, has emerged from a stringent and rigorous Federal Government assessment process accredited to provide “PROTECTED” cloud computing services. This is currently the hig...
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...
ICT Procurement reforms should drive Government transformation
|Government digital transformation. The announcement that Federal Government ICT contracts would be capped at $100 million was a potential game-changer in driving the digital transformation of Government agencies, Macquarie Government managing directo...
US Security Expert Gregory Treverton to be Macquarie's Special Guest
|Macquarie Technology Group is excited to this month host the recently retired chairman of the National Intelligence Council, Gregory Treverton, one of the world’s most respected thinkers on global security and cyber security. The National Intellig...
Hybrid cloud doesn’t mean complicated security setup
|Hybrid cloud security setups We all know cloud is a fantastic and cost effective enabler of flexible IT deployments, but not at the risk (and ultimate cost) of short cutting the security considerations. Many agencies have opted to use public clouds s...