Australian Signals Directorate responded to over 1,100 cybersecurity incidents during 2024.
Tag: cybersecurity
What keeps Australia’s critical infrastructure boss up at night
The head of Australia’s critical infrastructure security group reveals what keeps him up at night.
CrowdStrike outage could have been much worse: PM
An effective government response helped Australia dodge a bullet from a global outage that affected Windows devices, the PM says.
Victorian councils to pilot new shared services model
Councils in the Loddon Campaspe region will pilot a shared model for cybersecurity, procurement and legal services.
Govt uses cyber sanction powers for first time
The government has exercised its cyber sanctions powers for the first time after identifying a man linked to last year’s Medibank attack.
NSW public sector audit finds deficiencies
A NSW audit has found governance failures relating to the management of councils, grants, IT and Sydney Metro contractors.
Cyberwarfare ‘here to stay’ as threat to critical infrastructure
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shows that cyberwarfare is a factor that must be taken into account in future cyber security strategies, a forum has heard.
Telstra launches new cyber security products for government
Telstra has established a specialist government team to deliver cyber security options.
Government stares down cyber attacks
COVID has heightened the risk of cyber attacks, a government cloud provider says.
Councils told to step up on cyber security
An audit has found that 80 per cent of councils don’t have cyber security policies.