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D2IQ Partners with Macquarie Government to Enhance Digital Transformation, Application Development, and Big Data Capabilities
|New exclusive partnership will bring D2IQ’s (formerly Mesosphere) cloud management technologies to the Australian government. Macquarie Government today announced an exclusive partnership with D2IQ, the multi-cloud automation platform company, that...
Scholarship in Cyber Security
|I was fortunate to have awarded Rifa Sanzida Ritu the Macquarie Government Scholarship in Cyber Security at the Western Sydney University’s Scholarship awards ceremony on Friday afternoon. Macquarie Government Marketing Manager Daniel Boerma, schol...
Macquarie Government Supports Decryption Initiative
|New legislation updates current intercept laws. Aidan Tudehope, Managing Director, Macquarie Government, commented today on draft legislation being prepared by the Australian Federal Government to allow access to encrypted data of suspected terrorist...
Auditor General's Report - NSW Government Cyber Security Demands Urgent Action
|NSW Auditor General’s report calls for urgent action on cyber security Today’s NSW Auditor General’s report Detecting and Responding to Cyber Security Incidents focusing on the cyber security awareness of state agencies makes for sobering ...
Critical Intel, AMD and ARM Processor Vulnerability, Cyber Security Impacted
|Over the last 48 hours, details of two critical hardware vulnerabilities Spectre (CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715) and Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) emerged that impact the majority of computers running Intel processors (Spectre and Meltdown), AMD and AR...
Cloud entrepreneur and technologist to head Macquarie Government Cloud business
|Macquarie Government has appointed experienced entrepreneur and technologist Bart Thomas as General Manager, Government Cloud, a key leadership appointment in its rapidly growing built-for-government cloud business. “Bart’s appointment fills a ke...
Hybrid cloud for Australian government: Virtualisation and security with VMware by Broadcom NSX
|Virtualisation technology and cloud services are making it easier for Government agencies to implement their Digital Transformation strategy. Data-centre virtualisation adoption is on the way up. So is the use of software-defined data centre (SDDC) t...
ASD's Top 4 becomes Essential 8
|The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) recently published updated guidance – “Strategies to mitigate cyber security incidents” replacing the older guidance. With this the ASD also expanded its recommended, “Top 4” mitigation techniques...
People Power - Macquarie Technology Group Unveils New Brand
|Embargoed 12.01am Thursday 28 July Macquarie Technology Group today unveiled its new brand, reflecting the evolution and strengths of the business. “This is not simply a fresh coat of paint – far from it,” Chief Executive David Tudehope said. ...