Australia Beefs Up Cyber Defences After Major Breaches (reuters.com) 6
Australia will give cyber health checks for small businesses, increase cyber law enforcement funding and introduce mandatory reporting of ransomware attacks under a security overhaul announced on Wednesday after a spate of attacks. From a report: The federal government said it will also subject telecommunications firms to tougher cyber reporting rules which apply to critical infrastructure, seek migrants to build up the cyber security workforce and set limits on inter-agency data sharing to encourage people to report incidents. The A$587 million ($382 million) plan shows the centre-left Labor government trying to get on the front foot after a year in which nearly half the country's 26 million population had personal information stolen in just two data breaches at companies, while a cyber attack at its biggest port operator this month brought supply chains to a standstill.
Cyber defenses? (Score:2)
For Cybermen, usually you want some gold.
Crikey, Mate! (Score:2)
How about a GFA? (Score:1)
The GFC of China was laughed at for over a decade, but now, it has stopped attacks on mainland companies by almost a factor of 100%. Perhaps Australia should consider something similar, which would mean that offshore attackers would have to VPN or use a node on the continent as a base for launching attacks, which can be easily squashed.
China, Russia, and Iran have pretty much 100% hack-proofness due to their country-wide firewalling. Maybe other countries can stop whining and do something about it?
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The GFC of China was laughed at for over a decade, but now, it has stopped attacks on mainland companies by almost a factor of 100%. Perhaps Australia should consider something similar, which would mean that offshore attackers would have to VPN or use a node on the continent as a base for launching attacks, which can be easily squashed.
China, Russia, and Iran have pretty much 100% hack-proofness due to their country-wide firewalling. Maybe other countries can stop whining and do something about it?
Australians would hire the cheapest contractors from India to design and implement the cyber equivalent of the Great Rabbit-Proof Fence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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Australians would hire the cheapest contractors from India to design and implement the cyber equivalent of the Great Rabbit-Proof Fence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Indeed that is exactly right - and end up with nothing to show for it. Just like the $50+ million wasted on the failed stock exchange back-end rewrite, or the $191 million lost when the Cenrtrelink welfare benefit calculation engine rewrite was ditched. Infosys did alright. https://www.itnews.com.au/news... [itnews.com.au]