Govt cyber chief Alastair MacGibbon makes exit
Alastair MacGibbon has resigned from his role as the government’s most senior cyber security advisor.
Alastair MacGibbon has resigned from his role as the government’s most senior cyber security advisor.
Members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have spoken in public together for the first time at a conference in Scotland.
A new government strategy advocates for Commonwealth departments and agencies to whenever possible employ public cloud services and, in general, use as much cloud as they can.
Telstra’s former chief information security officer, Mike Burgess, will lead the Australian Signals Directorate, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced today.
Public servants still need to take care about what they share, but an update to key security advice for the Australian government has seen the removal of a recommendation that they avoid posting even the most banal details about their lives on websites such as Facebook and Twitter.
The Australian Signals Directorate has released new standards for passwords used at federal government agencies.
Labor has called for the Government to take “real action” in response to the hacking of an Australian defence contractor, which resulted in the theft of 30 gigabytes of data.
Nation states need faster and more effective ‘consequences’ for those launching cyber attacks against them, former US State Department lead cyber diplomat Chris Painter, said today.
Macquarie Government — the government-focused business of the ASX-listed Macquarie Telecom Group — has joined the ranks of cloud providers whose services are certified for use with classified government information.
Enterprise service management provider ServiceNow has joined the federal government’s Certified Cloud Services List (CCSL).
The Australian Signals Directorate is seeking to augment its information security capabilities, including recruiting an executive-level “investigations technologist” to lead remediation and mitigation efforts in the wake of attacks on government systems and other systems deemed to be of national importance.
Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Identity and Access Management (IAM) service has been added to the government’s Certified Cloud Services List (CCSL).
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has launched a new recruitment campaign to bolster its ranks of software developers.
Two Australian companies were yesterday revealed to be the first cloud providers to have been certified by an Australian Signals Directorate-backed program for use with classified government information.
The first services certified for use with government information classified at the PROTECTED level have been added to the Australian Signals Directorate-maintained secure cloud list.