The Australian government has promised to crack down on companies that aren’t prepared to defend themselves against cyber crime, but their proposed new laws may offer those same businesses a reprieve.
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The Five Eyes alliance is critical to hunting and detecting foreign cyber actors, but tends to work in secret.
The funds are allocated across a ten-year period, with most of the money redirected from defence spending.
While there has been a big spend on cyber capabilities, many other aspects of defence and security have been neglected. The budget highlights the lack of a comprehensive national security policy.
In his second big defence announcement in under a week, Scott Morrison on Thursday will outline plans for a major expansion of Australia’s defence workforce to more than 101,000 by 2040.
The Australian government’s new cyber security plan moves in the right direction, but success will depend on how it’s executed.
Scott Morrison will unveil on Thursday a cybersecurity package to give greater protection to Australian infrastructure.
Mike Burgess, previously head of the Australian Signals Directorate, has a solid history in the intelligence area and Labor has welcomed the choice.
Australians should be concerned about any shift to an intelligence model that is based on the introduction of greater powers on the one hand, and less oversight and governance on the other.
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.
The fine distinction between expanding ASD powers but it not collecting intelligence on Australians is where the confusion lies, and that will need to be carefully laid out.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Director, Foreign Policy and Defence, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor in Law and Co-Convener National Security Hub (University of Canberra) and Research Fellow (adjunct) - The Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa, Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University- NATO Fellow Asia-Pacific, University of Canberra
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Edith Cowan University
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Director, Centre for Cyber Security Research & Innovation (CSRI), Deakin University
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Lecturer, Cyberintelligence and Cybercrime Investigations, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
