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.
Former Department of Defence chief information security officer Lynwen Connick has called on the government to "get the basics right" around digital security in the wake of a cyber attack on the parliamentary computer network.
Three Australian cyber security companies have today been named as recipients of close to $4 million in funding from AustCyber (the Australian Cyber Security Growth Network).
Education Minister Dan Tehan did not use his powers of veto and approved all grants recommended by the Australian Research Council (ARC) in the latest round of funding.
Accenture has opened an ‘innovation hub’ in Canberra, to serve as a co-design space for the Department of Defence and security organisations.
The Department of Finance has selected Collingwood agency Salsa Digital to operate the whole-of-government content management system GovCMS.
A Senate inquiry is extending its probe into the 2016 Federal Election to consider whether bots targeted Australian voters online in the build-up, and if so where the “social media manipulation” may have come from.
The head of a major UK government initiative to upskill thousands of public servants is on her way to Australia to share her skills with the federal government.
Rising citizen concern about the impact of technology on jobs is putting the Australian economy at risk, as some countries adopt a protectionist stance in response, the Australian government has said in its Foreign Policy White Paper, released today.
The Govt has struck a new strategic procurement arrangement with SAP Australia in a bid to see savings on IT products and services.
State and territory leaders have agreed with federal government plans to establish a national facial biometric matching capability, which will bring together passport, visa, citizenship and driver licence images into a single database.
The government will release a Digital Economy Strategy early next year “to seize the benefits of digital transformation and secure Australian jobs into the future”.
A radical new chip design invented by engineers at the UNSW-based Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) promises to make the manufacture of silicon-based quantum computers dramatically cheaper and easier than was previously thought possible.
Canberra Data Centres (CDC) has started construction on a 20MW data centre in Fyshwick, Canberra.
The UK government has opened an inquiry into artificial intelligence that will assess the economic, ethical and social implications of advances in the field.