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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...
Cyber Security, Community Fear and Maintaining Trust – a Rare Insight into Duncan Lewis, an Australian Security Czar
|ASIO Director General Duncan Lewis provided some rare and frank insights into his perspective on his job, false perceptions of and within government, international cyber security challenges and the balance of public interest and private rights in a r...
Improving, But Work to be Done Yet: Chris Painter's Verdict on Global Cyber Awareness
|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...
Former US Top Cyber Security Diplomat Chris Painter Comes to Canberra, Sydney, Warns of Escalating Cyber Threats
|Chris Painter, Former U.S. Top Cyber Security Diplomat From late February to March Macquarie Government are sponsoring a series of events with former top US cyber security diplomat Chris Painter presenting on the escalating cyber security threats to ...
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 ...
Critical Intel, AMD and ARM Processor Vulnerability, Cyber Security Impacted
|Over the last 48 hours, details of two critical hardware vulnerabilities Spectre (CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715) and Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) emerged that impact the majority of computers running Intel processors (Spectre and Meltdown), AMD and AR...
New critical infrastructure cyber security compliance and oversight a must
|Proposed new cyber security laws to give the Government powers to direct the owners and operators of critical infrastructure were needed in the face of modern cyber threats to the Australian economy and way of life. Cyber economic warfare was a daily...
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...