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Data Sovereignty and Data Centres
|Australians have made it clear that they expect their governments to keep their personal information onshore. Uptake of both the COVIDSafe and My Health Record apps was lower than hoped due to public concern around the risk of their data being access...
Australia’s sovereign technology industry to power our economic recovery
|This article originally appeared in The Australian Since Australia’s pandemic lockdowns, the Commonwealth Government has called on Australians to support our local tourism industry by encouraging domestic travel to counter the huge drop in overseas...
Why Macquarie built a Canberra Data Centre
|For greater security, scalability and cost reduction it’s not surprising the Australian government is in lockstep with corporate Australia in migrating ICT services to data-centre providers. However, the Australian Government does have particularly...
3 customer challenges MSPs need to be aware of, in a post COVID world
|There is no doubt about it – just as every walk of life is different post COVID, so are customers’ needs, wants and demands.. But how are they different? As an MSP, you are a valuable resource to your customers but how can you stay relevant? Wh...
Macquarie Data Centres and Macquarie Government Launches New Government-certified Facility in Canberra
|Macquarie launches $17M Government facility, IC5 Certified to store and manage highly classified Government data including Department of Defence data Construction supported over 400 jobs in the ACT throughout 2020 Australia’s sovereign data protect...
Addressing the Challenges with the Australian Government Data Centre Strategy
|In 2008 the Australian Government commissioned a review into its ICT use, and upon the findings a whole-of-government data centre strategy was endorsed to avoid ad-hoc ICT infrastructure costs. The Australian Government data centre strategy 2010-2025...
Data sovereignty focus opens new opportunities for Australian cloud providers
|This article originally appeared in The Australian Australia’s burgeoning cloud industry is not really our own, as recent research showed the soon-to-be $1 billion sector is dominated by the large global providers. That creates an inherent cyber se...
Prime Minister Scott Morrison unveils 2020 Cyber Security Strategy.
|PM Scott Morrison & Hon Peter Dutton MP announces 2020 AU Cyber Security Strategy today. It’s all about securing Australia & the digital economy. At a time when so many Australian’s are out of work, we need jobs and opportunities, and this st...
Ripple20: The critical IoT vulnerability.
|What is it? Ripple20 is a set of 19 zero-day vulnerabilities, discovered by the JSOF research lab in a widely used low-level TCP/IP software library developed by Treck, Inc. These vulnerabilities include multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities...
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. Macquarie Government and Macquarie Data Centres, part of Macquarie Technology Group (ASX: MAQ)...