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Cyber security and digital government – wannacry or tangible reality?
|Cyber security is now a global front page issue – events such as the #ecensusfail, alleged foreign government interference in political elections, and Wannacry has brought tremendous focus by the consumer, business and government of the risks of be...
Our New Canberra Home
|This week we move into our new Canberra home for Macquarie Government in the heart of Canberra at level 12, 221 London Circuit Civic from where our view – both literal and metaphorical is far and wide. Our outlook for the business is just as expans...
Hybrid cloud for Australian government: Virtualisation and security with VMware by Broadcom NSX
|Virtualisation technology and cloud services are making it easier for Government agencies to implement their Digital Transformation strategy. Data-centre virtualisation adoption is on the way up. So is the use of software-defined data centre (SDDC) t...
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...
FBI cyber security, secure cloud and how they respond to cyber threats
|Macquarie Government this month had the opportunity to host Gordon Bitko, the CIO of the FBI, on behalf of the American Chamber of Commerce. I had the opportunity to sit down with Gordon, who agreed to take my questions and those of members of the au...
Lifting the lid on cyber security and local business
|Minister on Cyber Security, Dan Tehan’s cyber security business story. On a visit to the Macquarie offices in Sydney late last year we heard a story on cyber security business. The Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Cyber Security, Dan Tehan,...
Dealing with smarter and nastier Cyber attacks in 2017
|The first month of the year is usually when one tends to look back at the previous year, take some learnings and plan for a more successful outing, the same applies in the world of cyber security as well. Looking back at 2016, we can’t just help ke...
Census Review a Map to Strengthen Weak Cyber Links
|The recommendations in the review of the August Census failure represented a new approach to providing agencies with better support and advice as they transition to a digital world, Macquarie Technology Group Managing Director of Hosting and Governme...
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...