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Developing Australia’s Defence Industry Base Report
|Today at the National Press Club the Sovereign Australian Prime Alliance (SAPA) launched a new report that sets out the pathway for creating Australian Headquartered businesses and highly skilled jobs in shipbuilding, cyber defence, space, missiles, ...
What is a secure cloud?
|A secure cloud is a cloud computing environment – typically on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) that has implemented various measures to protect data and applications stored within it from unauthorized access, theft, or damage. View article
What is a PROTECTED cloud?
|A PROTECTED cloud is a cloud computing service that has been assessed by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) to meet the security standards required for handling classified information by Australian government agencies. The DTA requires all ...
Australian Government Cybersecurity
|Australian government agencies are required to meet a range of cybersecurity frameworks and strategies to ensure the protection of government information and systems. These are set out by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and are mandatory ...
The role of Email and Network Sandboxing in Gateways
|The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Gateway Technology Guides cover a range of topics, including sandbox technology. According to the guide, a sandbox is a secure environment where potentially malicious code can be executed safely, away fr...
Data Loss Prevention for Australian Government
|Australian government agencies handle sensitive information related to our national security, citizens’ personal information, and other confidential data. The consequences of a data breach can be severe and can lead to a loss of public trust, finan...
The role of Security Domains in Gateway Design
|Secure Internet Gateways like Macquarie Government’s SIGNET play an important role in protecting digital government. To better understand how gateways work, it helps to understand the “security domains” they protect. In an earlier post, we d...
Essential 8 Maturity Model
|ACSC cyber security mitigation strategies. The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) is the Australian Government’s lead agency for cyber security. From experience of cyber security incidents and through vulnerability testing of various governmen...
Government SOC: Why is it essential to Government agencies?
|A Security Operations Centre (SOC) is an essential component of every Government agency’s cybersecurity effort. A SOC monitors an agency’s IT environment for suspicious events, detecting and responding to threats and attacks. Government SOCs also...
Investing in a local Cyber security capability for Victoria’s Government
|According to the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s latest Annual Cyber Threat Report, State governments reported the second-highest number of cyber security incidents; our police force, hospitals, schools and all agencies delivering critical servi...