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• Aussie contractor hack saw Joint Strike Fighter plans exfiltrated

  ​A hacker exfiltrated info about Australia's Joint Strike Fighter programme and other military hardware last year after breaching the network of a defence contractor.

• Can autonomous killer robots be stopped?

  Earlier this week robotics and artificial intelligence experts signed an open letter calling on the United Nations to help prevent the “third revolution in warfare”: lethal autonomous weapons.

• Desktop recorder to capture risky employee behaviour launches in Australia

  ​A product that records ‘admissable in a court of law’ quality videos of employees when they break cyber security policy is launching in Australia.

• Defence review takes aim at application sprawl

  The First Principles Review of Defence released today by the government has identified a "costly and complex" application landscape within the Defence Department as a source of waste and inefficiencies.

• ASG gets slice of Defence data centre consolidation program

  Perth-headquartered IT services company ASG Group announced this morning that Lockheed Martin Australia had signed it as a subcontractor for the Department of Defence's mammoth Centralised Processing Project.

• RadComms: Tech advances to be fueled by spectrum

  Access to high-bandwidth wireless broadband is critical for supporting drones, national defence and autonomous mining equipment, according to presenters from industry and government at the RadComms conference in Sydney today.
  

• Defence data centre overhaul gets tick of approval

  Defence minister David Johnston has backed a large-scale overhaul of Department of Defence's ICT services and infrastructure, confirming today that the Centralised Processing Project will be managed by Lockheed Martin.

• In pictures: UNSW Canberra launches Australian Centre for Cyber Security

  Assistant Minister for Defence, Stuart Robert, was on hand to help unveil the University of New South Wales' (UNSW) Canberra's Australian Centre for Cyber Security (ACCS) in Canberra.
  The centre, which is located at the Australian Defence Force Academy, will enhance UNSW’s strengths in computer/network security, risk management, international politics/ethics, law and big data analytics.

• Internet of Things: Defence warns more devices means more risks

  As the Internet of Things expands, industry and government must collaborate to bolster security of critical systems, according to Alex Zelinsky, chief defence scientist at the Department of Defence.

• Telstra signs $1.1 billion Defence contract

  Telstra has won a $1.1 billion contract to supply telecommunications, network and mobile services to the Department of Defence.

• Defence to fund cyber security prototyping

  The Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) will spend up to $2.2 million on prototyping new cyber security technologies to help ‘future proof’ Australia’s defence capabilities.

• Defence 'market tests' Oracle providers

  Australia’s major Defence intelligence agencies will shortly move to a new direct-source relationship for their Oracle-based hardware, software and services.

• Defence begins Centralised Processing program

  Defence has announced it is to shortly commence its Centralised Processing (CP) initiative to establish a single, integrated capability for the management and provision of centralised processing facilities, infrastructure and services at the unclassified, classified and secret levels.

• Federal Govt invests $13m in Defence R&D

  The Federal Government has allocated $13 million in funding to foster projects submitted under the Department of Defence’s research and development program.

• Defence gives its security pass card a fail

  Defence is to overhaul the electronic access card system which controls staff access to facilities in the Canberra region amid decreasing overall performance of the security system.