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Macquarie Technology Group appoints former head of cyber warfare
|The below announcement was featured in the Canberra Times, Defense Connect, ITWire and a number of other media sites. Macquarie Technology Group appoints former head of cyber warfare Maj Gen Marcus Thompson AM PhD as Senior Advisor 27 April 2021 Macq...
The Role of Data Centres in the Australian Government’s Digital Transformation Strategy
|The federal government’s Digital Transformation Strategy is rightly focused on modernising government to improve customer service outcomes. However, the role of Macquarie Government’s data centres in Canberra and services including cloud, hosting...
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...
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...
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...
COVID-19 and working from home securely: What you need to know
|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...
Macquarie Government received Email Security Innovation award.
|Macquarie Government has received the Innovation Award for Email Security at the FireEye APAC Partner Summit in Indonesia yesterday.  Eric Hoh, Senior Vice President APAC, FireEye, Rob Lam, Macquarie Government, Michael Coleman, ANZ Channel Mana...
Victorian Government cloud adoption study findings revealed
|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...
What's next?
|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...
Let's not Push Successful Policies Aside
|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...