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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...
Sovereign Cyber Security Centre of Excellence
|We are proud to announce a major investment we are making in the New South Wales cybersecurity and digital economy as well as strengthening Australia’s sovereign cybersecurity capability. Purpose-built for cybersecurity and government sovereign sup...
Defence Minister Peter Dutton Opens Macquarie’s New High Security Data Centre in Canberra
|18 June 2021 – Australia’s Minister for Defence, The Hon. Peter Dutton MP, today officially unveiled Intellicentre 5 Bunker (IC5), highlighting it as critical infrastructure supporting Australia’s data sovereignty, national cyber security and d...
Budget delivers timely infrastructure, cyber and skills boost to Australian economy
|13 May 2021, Macquarie Telecom Group (ASX: MAQ) has welcomed the publication of the 2021-22 Federal Budget, particularly its focus on building critical infrastructure, bolstering cyber security in Australia and expanding much-needed digital skills. C...
What makes a government cloud?
|Since the release of the National Strategy for Cloud Computing in 2013, the Australian Government has continued its trajectory of cloud adoption for the significant benefits cloud offers – greater flexibility, agility, operational efficiencies, sca...
The digital infrastructure you’ll never see
|In a secret location there is a Canberra data centre that’s a silent fortress and a cornerstone of the Australian Government’s digital transformation strategy. At Macquarie’s new Canberra data centres there are hundreds of rack-mounted servers ...
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...