Australia Post fails cyber security test

Australia Post has failed to effectively identify and manage cyber security risks, an audit has found.

5 July, 2019

Critical infrastructure at risk of cyber attacks

Critical infrastructure providers are failing to grasp the risks posed by operational technology.

1 July, 2019

Budget provides $104m to root out public sector corruption

The government is funding a Commonwealth Integrity Commission to probe public sector corruption.

4 April, 2019

Making Melbourne’s streets safer for women

The City of Melbourne is crowd sourcing innovative ideas to make the city safer for women following a spate of attacks.

18 March, 2019

Councils’ bid to make public spaces safer

As authorities confront violence against women in Australia, experts raise fresh doubts about the utility of CCTV, often a key tool for councils.

22 October, 2018

Time to review airport security, expert says

Australia’s airport security framework lacks coordination and is in urgent need of review, a leading security expert says.

18 October, 2018

Warning for councils on CCTV data risks

A privacy expert is calling for a national review by councils of the public safety benefits of CCTV cameras after an audit found surveillance data were vulnerable to privacy breaches.  

5 October, 2018

Australia ‘wide open’ to damage from cyberattack

Governments must move quickly to address a potentially catastrophic cybersecurity vulnerability, a state government chief information security officer has warned.

14 September, 2018

Local government ‘the forgotten actor’ in thwarting terrorism

As authorities confront an increasingly localised terror threat a security expert calls for greater council involvement in Australia’s counter-terrorism planning.

3 September, 2018

Collaboration key to a national cybersecurity strategy

The public and private sectors need to work together to improve cyber resilience through sharing insights, intelligence, expertise, facilities, and personnel.

30 August, 2018

Agencies need better training on terrorism: police commander

Few police or emergency services are adequately preparing their staff to respond to major terrorist incidents, an Australian Federal Police commander has warned.

8 May, 2018

NSW lacks coherent plan on cyber security: audit

The NSW Auditor-General has called on the State Government to ramp up cyber security after she found most agencies had untested response procedures, poor reporting of incidents and questionable staff training.

5 March, 2018

Public sector least prepared for cyber attacks

Governments at all levels are much less prepared for cyber attacks than organisations in the commercial sector. Security software vendor CyberArk has released its ‘Global Advanced Threat Landscape Report 2018’. Its 11th annual study of cyber security and organisation’s response to it. Responses are broken down by industry sector, giving a clear view of how […]

1 March, 2018

Data notification law starts today – as Privacy Commissioner says goodbye

Timothy Pilgrim, retired public servant The world is very different now, but many of us don’t know it. From 22 February 2018 Australia has a new Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) regimen. Under the laws, passed in 2017 as the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act, companies and government agencies have to tell people  if lost […]

21 February, 2018