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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...

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...

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...

The continued spread of the coronavirus has changed life as we know it. We are seeing more organisations elect to have their staff working remotely to reduce the impact on staff health, business operations and to slow the spread of the virus in Austr...

Key findings of a study on government cloud adoption by the Victorian Government were presented to agency ICT leaders in Melbourne at Macquarie Government’s sponsored lunch by independent analyst firm Ovum and their Chief Analyst and Practice Leade...

There are many ways in which the Federal election has turned the usual assumptions on their head and this includes cyber security policy. One of the most interesting is that the ICT sector seems to be finding it harder to answer the “what’s nextâ...

In an election period, the conversation naturally turns into a contest and swings between new initiatives being promoted and finger-pointing accusations of past failures. It is easy for long running successful policies to be pushed aside in the heat...

Australian taxpayers have a lot at stake as agencies ramp up their transition to modern hybrid IT environments. The legacy outsourced supply contracts many government agencies have endured for years have too often locked them into expensive, inflexib...

Commonwealth agencies are responsible for managing the risk associated with the loss of any information they hold. All ICT systems used by Federal Government agencies in Australia are required to comply with common rules to ensure they are safe and s...

Chris Painter is a veteran attendee at the Munich Security Conference, so his reflections on the changed mood around cyber security at this year’s conference bear attention. the former US Cyber Co-ordinator, White House Cyber Security Adviser, FBI...