Cyber strategy 2.0

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.

The gray zone and ‘hybrid warfare’

Our increasing connectivity and reliance on information technology is a vulnerability being targeted by two key threats: cyber attacks and the subversion of our democratic institutions.

Australia remains vulnerable to a catastrophic cyber attack

Scott Morrison has taken credit for ‘stopping the boats’, but his government has failed to do anything meaningful to bolster cyber security and Labor isn’t offering anything better.

6 ways to clean up online in 2019

Data breaches, malware attacks and microtargeted personalized advertising spoiled our “digital lives’ in 2018, but taking some simple steps can produce a better and safer online experience for us all this year.

Beefing up the ADF’s Information Warfare Division

Last month’s revelation that hostile foreign hackers accessed the computer systems of Australian defence shipbuilder Austal underscores the need for the government, public institutions and private companies to boost Australia’s cyber capability.

Turning the cybersecurity spotlight on the Pacific

A digital tsunami is engulfing the Pacific. Undersea cables are gradually bringing high-speed internet connections, with all its thrills and risks, to remote island nations. This new connectivity brings a host of opportunities, but care must be taken to guard against risks too.

The universal acid of cyber

To address cyber issues, we need fewer blunt instruments such as legislative, system-wide interventions and more adaptive, targeted instruments attuned to the disparate and changing nature of the system. 

This is not a drill: A cyberthreat reality check

It’s difficult, if not impossible, to find a security expert who doesn’t think that a major cyber-attack on Australia with potentially devastating consequences is inevitable at some point in the future.