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• $400 million: The cost of Australia’s cyber security skills shortage

  The skills shortage in the cyber security sector is more severe than expected, according to a new analysis released today.

• AustCyber gets new CEO

  AustCyber chief executive Craig Davies has left the organisation — which launched as the Australian Cyber Security Growth Network — effective today, with chief operating officer Michelle Price taking on the CEO role.

• Cyber flavoured delegation to head to San Francisco

  A delegation of Australian cyber security start-ups will be heading to San Francisco in January next year, as part of a Austrade and AustCyber backed initiative.

• Government promises $50 million boost to security research

  The government will invest $50 million over seven years to help establish an industry-led Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CRC).

• Penten smooths mobile security for spooks

  Australia is not renowned for producing homegrown security hardware, but Canberra-based company Penten is bringing to market a tiny device that promises big benefits, and significant cost savings, when it comes to secure wireless access to classified data and government networks.

• How Aussie innovation is helping secure IT

  Last September a report by US think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, commissioned by Intel Security, found that 88 per cent of Australian IT decision makers surveyed believed there was a local shortage of cyber security skills.

• Meet the man charged with growing Australia’s cyber security industry

  Last December Craig Davies, former head of security for Atlassian, was named head of the government’s new Cyber Security Growth Centre launched with $31.9 million of funding over three years.

• Government eyes increased IoT security, new plan to tackle cyber crime

  A new National Plan to Combat Cybercrime, collaboration with industry to boost the security of Internet of Things devices, and work on reducing supply chain risks to government IT systems are some of the next steps in the government’s national cyber security strategy.

• Roadmap seeks to boost local cyber security industry

  The first Australian-government backed roadmap to help strengthen the local cyber security industry will be launched today.