China according to sources, stole non-confidential data during a malicious cyber attack against Parliament House earlier in 2019. The incident forced the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) to "operate at a heightened state of activity to provide...

the Five Eyes chief information officers described at the recent Military Communication and Information Systems Conference 2019 (MilCIS) in Canberra, Defence has to do more to keep up. "As we get older, we tend to get safer and more comfortable. Well,...

Information Office as well as a mix of service cyber components, agencies, industry, academia and the military services. In 2019, 1,250 active military and government personnel and 1,125 industry professionals were in attendance from 16 countries. The...

extensive research and consultation. The organisation’s flagship publications – Australia’s Sector Competitiveness Plan 2019 and Industry Roadmap – outline the opportunity for Australia's cyber security sector to support growth across the whole economy.

basic cyber resilience measures without consequence or accountability. The recent Commonwealth Cyber Security Posture in 2019 review confirmed the government’s sustained indifference to this national vulnerability, concluding that the implementation of...

legal “guard rails” for Europe’s largest defence project: FCAS. The expert panel, which was first initiated in Germany in 2019, currently includes stakeholders such as the German Ministry of Defence, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, foundations,...

Defence College has been using virtual reality simulations for over 10 years for humanitarian operations. VR at home Since 2019, VR technology has also been used in the Defence Force School of Languages. While Australia has embraced the platforms...

success having been recognised as Telstra’s 2018 Australian Business of the year as well as Australia Defence Industry’s 2019 Cyber business of the year,” said Professor Frater. “They also have a strong connection with UNSW Canberra; from advising and...

which will build on the strong foundations established by our $230 million 2016 Cyber Security Strategy and our $156 million 2019 cyber security election commitment.

on an episode of Defence Connect’s podcast and was a judge of the Defence Connect Australian Defence Industry Awards 2019. Alex Scandurra, CEO of Stone & Chalk, has served in the armed forces and led digital transformation efforts in a major financial...

sets them up to succeed. Citing a survey of small and medium businesses conducted by the Australian Cyber Security Centre in 2019, they note that the sector is highly vulnerable to malicious cyber activity. Now, while it’s far from often that Australia...

While awareness and management of cyber security risks were improving, there was still room for improvements. But in 2019, Australian financial firms are now more cyber resilient than ever. Firms assigned themselves ratings from “partial” (“policies and...

support Australia to become the leading global centre for cyber security education,” said AustCyber CEO Michelle Price. “The 2019 update indicates strong growth against the data outlined in the first iteration, released in April 2017, reflecting the...

Optus and UniSA’s partnership in Lot Fourteen’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Living Lab project, launched in 2019.

identity network from January to June. While there was 27 per cent growth year-on-year in transaction volume compared to 2019, the period saw an overall decline in global attack volume. Overall, human-initiated attacks across the digital identity...

of these latest roadmaps follows the publication of the Combat Clothing, and the Munitions and Small Arms plans in December 2019, the Land Combat and Protected Vehicles plan in August 2020, and the Aerospace Platform Deeper Maintenance and Structural...

ransom attacks and e-crime activity is up over 330 per cent since the start of the year over the same period from 2019. Financial institutions have an obligation to protect company and customer information, made harder by the era of open and digitalised...

some 6.6 billion security threats that were hidden inside encrypted traffic. This represents an increase of nearly 260% over 2019. The inspection challenge For this reason, it’s important that inspection of encrypted traffic is made a key component of...

and technical considerations for the potential development of Defence policy, doctrine, research and project management. The 2019 workshop was attended by over 100 representatives from Defence, other Australian government agencies, industry, academia,...

The announcement follows the ASD’s Cryptographic Evaluation (ACE) level certification of the Galaxy S9 and S9+ models in 2019, which became the first Android devices to be approved for Australian government use at ‘Protected’ level. “Samsung devices are...