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Cyber Security Standards and Definitions are Required to Lift NSW Government's Cyber Security Capability
|A common NSW Government cyber security foundation is required. It’s been said that you can’t improve what you can’t measure, and it holds just as true for cyber security standards measures. Similarly, you can’t measure what you haven’t ...
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...
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...
Macquarie Government Cyber Security Scholarship 2017
|Great candidates for Cyber Security Scholarship 2017 Recently I joined Associate Professor Yun Bai and Dr Rodrigo Calheiros as part of a panel reviewing candidates. Consequently, we were looking at potential candidates for our Cyber Security Scholar...
Cyber Security Moving From Backrooms to Boardrooms
|Australian businesses’ awareness of cyber security risk has exploded in the year since the National Cyber Security Strategy was released, and was becoming “normalised” as a board responsibility, Macquarie Government managing director Aidan Tude...
NSW leads the way for states on cyber security
|The appointment of Maria Milosavljevic as the first state government Chief Information Security Officer (CSIO) was an important milestone and step toward making a raised cyber security stance a truly national mission, Macquarie Government managing di...
Building a strong technology and cyber security capability for Australia
|In my last blog I put forward a 5 pronged approach to cyber security. There has been much discussion this week in Washington DC at the AU-US Cyber Security Dialogue about the third element – “Building a strong technology and security capability...
2016: The year focus on Cyber Security took off in Australia
|As I made the journey across to Washington DC for the inaugural Australia-US Cyber Security Dialogue, I reflected on just how much mileage there has been on the cyber security front in the last 6 months. I start the timeline in April when the Prime...
Macquarie Government at Washington DC Cyber Security Summit
|This week I am proud to be representing Macquarie Government in Washington DC as part of the Australian delegation to the inaugural Australia-US Cyber Security Dialogue. The dialogue – organised by the Australian Strategic policy Institute and its ...