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The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has found that 17 countries are responsible for most of the disinformation spread through Twitter, none of which are from the Five Eyes grouping. Europe is largely absent too. Who knew?

Macquarie Telecom Group business unit Macquarie Government has appointed Mike Foster to the newly created role of director of strategic growth.

Macquarie Government is now part of the NSW Government Cloud Purchasing Arrangement panel.

It looks like the defence industry lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, is running low on funds. Nothing else can account for the surfacing of its executive director Peter Jennings on the opinion pages of The Australian, conjuring up a fictional version of a Chinese bid to grab Taiwan.

Cyber security solutions and services provider CSO Group has secured a four-year $7 million deal with the NSW Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ).

Macquarie Telecom business unit Macquarie Government has welcomed the Morrison Government’s announcement that all government data will soon require storage only in onshore data centres that are Certified Strategic or Certified Assured.

Macquarie Telecom Group's Macquarie Data Centres and Macquarie Government businesses have launched the Intellicentre 5 (IC5) data centre in Canberra to house the most highly classified Australian Government workloads.

Macquarie Telecom Group has called on the Australian Government to act on its new cyber security strategy immediately, saying that the strategy “crucially paves the way” for the creation of sovereign jobs and skills development in Australia “when it’s needed most”.

Canberra-based secure cloud services provider Vault has welcomed the release of new guidelines for vendors to be assessed for their competence in delivering secure cloud services by either public or private sector entities.

Macquarie Telecom business unit Macquarie Government has become a member of the Defence Industry Security Program (DISP), certifying the company to contract with the Department of Defence.

Once again, a federal government cloud contract has been handed on a platter to the American firm Microsoft, without local firms even getting a look in.

Macqauarie Government and Macquarie Data Centres are making an initial investment of $17 million to build the first stage of a new data centre, Intellicentre 5 (IC5), at its Canberra campus in response to what they say is rising demand for cloud and cyber security services.

ASD-certified Protected cloud provider Vault has switched on high-security equipment in the NSW Government's GovDC in Silverwater, the company says, adding that this would provide fast low-level connectivity directly into Vault Cloud.

Macquarie Telecom has signed a deal to provide mental health and disability support services provider Open Minds with critical mobile, voice, NBN and SD-WAN services to underpin the company’s expansion plans.

Macquarie Government has awarded this year's cyber security scholarship to Adel Aljuboury, a computer science student at Western Sydney University.

Cyber security firm Macquarie Government has been appointed to the NSW Government panel of approved telecommunications suppliers.

Cyber security firm Macquarie Government has launched a new security operations centre as-a-service (SOCaaS) which it says is aimed at addressing the evolving threat landscape faced by Australian government agencies.

Macquarie Government has called on the Australian Government to give greater focus to building critical sovereign capabilities in cyber security and IT to keep Australia competitive.

Reaction to the awarding of a whole-of-government cloud services deal to Amazon Web Services, the second big contract to go to the American company in two months, after the 2021 Census was handed to it, has ranged from muted to outright anger.

The Federal Government's release of a hosting strategy last week appears to be an attempt to prevent the issue of data sovereignty being raised as an election issue.