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Essential 8 Cyber Security Guidelines
|What are the Essential 8? The Essential Eight are key cyber security strategies developed by the federal government’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and help mitigate against cyber security threats. The ACSC Essential Eight is designed to ...
NSW DCJ to use Macquarie Government SOCaaS and SIEMaaS
|Macquarie Government’s partnership with CSO group to deliver SOC and SIEM. We are excited to announce that Macquarie Government has partnered with CSO group to deliver a fully managed Security Monitoring Service, Security Operations Centre (SOC) an...
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...
What is a green data centre?
|The Australian Government can strengthen its environmental credentials through utilising green data centres, but what are green data centres, and how can they reduce government carbon emissions? Data centres and cloud computing reduce carbon emission...
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 ...
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...
Addressing the Challenges with the Australian Government Data Centre Strategy
|In 2008 the Australian Government commissioned a review into its ICT use, and upon the findings a whole-of-government data centre strategy was endorsed to avoid ad-hoc ICT infrastructure costs. The Australian Government data centre strategy 2010-2025...