Displaying items by tag: Cyber security strategy

Australian-listed Macquarie Technology Group (ASX: MAQ) has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Macquarie Data Centres Pty Ltd (MDC), has received confirmation from the Independent Planning Commission NSW that it has favourably determined MDC’s state significant development application for the construction of a third data centre at the Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus (IC3 SuperWest).

GUEST OPINION by Chris Sharp, CEO at Pax8 APAC : The Government’s launch of its near $590 million Cyber Security Strategy is a playbook to make Australia the most cyber secure nation worldwide by 2030.

GUEST OPINION: Australia’s new Cyber Security Strategy to begin building six cyber shields around the nation comes at a time when it’s more important than ever to protect businesses and citizens from new technologies and more sophisticated cyber attacks.

The Australian Labor Party has poured scorn on the digital business announcement made by Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday, claiming that the PM was "there for the media drop, the photo op, the re-packaged media drop, and the re-announcement, but never there for the follow-up".

Attempts to compromise Australian corporate and government networks are inevitable, the managing director of Blackberry Spark ANZ, Jason Duerden, says, adding that while this cannot be prevented they can be contained and protected against by applying a risk mitigation approach to cyber security.

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has welcomed the steps outlined by the Federal Government's Industry Advisory Panel on the country's next cyber security strategy, saying the IAP chief Andrew Penn agreed with Huawei's submission that the best approach to cyber security was to secure the supply chain and build an independent testing regime for all vendor equipment.

The Federal Government's Industry Advisory Panel, set up to advise on Australia's 2020 Cyber Security Strategy, has offered 60 recommendations to bolster the countries defences.

The Australian Government appears to have decided to outsource its cyber security strategy to the US, calling in the former US secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, to play a role in drafting the country's 2020 strategy in what seems to be admission of a longstanding cultural cringe and also an indictment of all the Australian cyber security professionals.