Fergus Hanson – Openforum https://www.openforum.com.au Open Forum offers an independent platform for Australian debate Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:57:31 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 Australia must stand up to cyber assault https://www.openforum.com.au/australia-must-stand-up-to-cyber-assault/ Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:02:35 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=40396 Australian society, companies and citizens are under cyber-assault by criminal gangs and state actors, and real action must be taken to protect them.

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Who was behind the Optus attack? https://www.openforum.com.au/who-was-behind-the-optus-attack/ Sat, 24 Sep 2022 00:31:00 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=39433 Given the massive scale of the Optus security breach, the nature of the personal information and the utility of this data, the government should come clean about whether a state or criminal actor was behind the attack.

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Will Google abandon Australia? https://www.openforum.com.au/will-google-pull-out-from-australia/ Fri, 12 Feb 2021 21:20:42 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=31741 The Australian government's plan to force Google to pay news organisations for content may see the online giant pull its search and advertising from Australian markets.

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Pushing back against China https://www.openforum.com.au/pushing-back-against-china/ Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:04:59 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=29428 A collective response by allied nations and regional powers is required to contain China's increasingly brutal international bullying.

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Cyber strategy 2.0 https://www.openforum.com.au/cyber-strategy-2-0/ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 22:16:15 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=23320 Back in 2016, Australia launched its first national cybersecurity strategy and the government has just launched a discussion paper to kick off the public consultation on its successor.

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The encryption deal done, but more work is needed https://www.openforum.com.au/the-encryption-deal-done-but-more-work-is-needed/ Wed, 05 Dec 2018 20:08:54 +0000 http://www.openforum.com.au/?p=18227 Australia has a strong history of bipartisanship on national security issues and is much stronger for it. This tradition has held, just about, through the debate on data encryption, but much still remains to be done.

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Introducing integrated e-government in Australia https://www.openforum.com.au/introducing-integrated-e-government-in-australia/ Sat, 01 Dec 2018 22:24:35 +0000 http://www.openforum.com.au/?p=18195 Launching a national effort to integrate service delivery across all three tiers of government would be a political challenge but it would deliver benefits for every Australian.

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What’s the big deal about digital identity? https://www.openforum.com.au/whats-the-big-deal-about-digital-identity/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 21:33:56 +0000 http://www.openforum.com.au/?p=17300 New steps towards developing secure digital identities have a lot of potential to make our lives easier, but privacy and security concerns means it must be done right.

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Hacking for ca$h https://www.openforum.com.au/hacking-for-cah/ Fri, 28 Sep 2018 22:42:40 +0000 http://www.openforum.com.au/?p=16876 It’s time we named China as a perpetrator of commercial cyber espionage and work in coalition with other states to escalate pressure until the Chinese leadership decides the costs are too high for it to keep orchestrating the theft of intellectual property.

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Are we being played in the Pacific? https://www.openforum.com.au/are-we-being-played-in-the-pacific/ Mon, 10 Sep 2018 22:54:41 +0000 http://www.openforum.com.au/?p=16581 If you were trying to design a low-cost strategy to constrict the operational horizon of an important US ally in the region, China’s ploys in the Pacific wouldn’t be a bad model to examine.

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Naming and shaming the unshameable https://www.openforum.com.au/naming-and-shaming-the-unshameable/ Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:47:10 +0000 http://www.openforum.com.au/?p=13671 In the light of escalating cyber attacks from Russia, China and other hostile actors, the West is taking a more proactive approach to naming the perpetrators and taking active counter-measures.

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