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Australia’s sovereign technology industry to power our economic recovery
|This article originally appeared in The Australian Since Australia’s pandemic lockdowns, the Commonwealth Government has called on Australians to support our local tourism industry by encouraging domestic travel to counter the huge drop in overseas...
Avoiding the Public Clouds' Hotel California Effect
|Australian taxpayers have a lot at stake as agencies ramp up their transition to modern hybrid IT environments. The legacy outsourced supply contracts many government agencies have endured for years have too often locked them into expensive, inflexib...
Will 2017 be an inflection point for the Australian Government's digital transformation?
|Recently I pondered whether 2017 would be remembered as the Australian Government’s inflection-point year for digital transformation and cyber security. As I mulled this over it became clear that this year may indeed be the inflection point – a y...
Macquarie Government Certified by Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), Again
|This week, Macquarie Government has been added to Australian Signals Directorate‘s Certified Cloud Services List (CCSL) for PROTECTED (Classified) data. This new certification adds to the existing DLM (Unclassified) certification (May 2015) an...
Macquarie Government achieves PROTECTED cloud accreditation for government cloud
|Macquarie Government, the most experienced service provider to federal agencies, has emerged from a stringent and rigorous Federal Government assessment process accredited to provide “PROTECTED” cloud computing services. This is currently the hig...
NSW leads the way for states on cyber security
|The appointment of Maria Milosavljevic as the first state government Chief Information Security Officer (CSIO) was an important milestone and step toward making a raised cyber security stance a truly national mission, Macquarie Government managing di...
Poorly Defended Business and Home Computers Contribute to ABS Attack: Macquarie Government Says
|Watch the video – Cyber security expert @Tudehope1 says businesses need to take the threat of cyber attacks more seriously Listen to the radio interview – Aidan Tudehope, the Managing Director of Macquarie Government talks about DDOS atta...
Get Set – First Minister for Cyber Security Completes Government’s Team
|July 22 2016 – There is big news for cyber security in the new Federal Ministry – Australia’s first Minister for Cyber Security. The appointment of Dan Tehan – an experienced and respected politician with a long history of parliamentary servi...
We are growing. In Canberra and Sydney.
|June 14 2016 – Macquarie Telecom will expand by 50 percent the capacity of the Canberra data centre “bunker” at the heart of its secure services to the Federal Government, it announced today. The expansion to the Intellicentre 4 data centre, op...