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Australian security software spend beats global trend
Gartner cautions about democratisation of security threats as IBM claws its way back into the top three vendors.
New challenge to council CCTV use
By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski A fresh row over how councils can use video surveillance and CCTV in New South Wales has erupted after moves by Local Government Minister…
Big biometric upgrade for Immigration
By Julian Bajkowski The Department of Immigration and Citizenship has gone to market for a substantial upgrade of its biometric identification systems that use facial recognition and fingerprinting systems to…
Building security culture at SIG
The annual Security in Government (SIG) Conference, hosted by the Attorney-General’s Department, is to be held from 3 – 5 September at the National Convention Centre, Canberra. The SIG Conference,…
Securing content management
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service has selected Australian-based Objective Corporation to implement its next generation enterprise content management platform, Objective ECM 8. Objective was selected for the…
People are still ‘weakest link’ in security defence
By Jo Stewart-Rattray, director of information security for national accounting firm RSM Bird Cameron; the international; the international vice president for global information security governance industry association ISACA; and chair…
Contributions to elevated threat levels at hospitals
By Layne Hesse and Rod Sweet from Sinclair Knight Merz Recent incidents such as the attack on a nurse in Blacktown hospital have drawn renewed attention to the issue…
Councils key to community-based crime prevention
By Lilia Guan The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released a technical and background paper on ‘Model Performance Framework for Community Based Crime Prevention’. The paper looks at…
New report on cyber security
Attorney-General Robert McClelland welcomed the release of a new report on the Australia’s response to the evolving cyber security threat. The report, Optimising Australia’s Response to the Cyber Challenge, was…