Home Affairs and Cybersecurity minister Clare O’Neil is considering local data storage requirements in Australia to improve the security of sensitive data, as the government begins work on a new cybersecurity strategy. Following her address to the National Press Club on Thursday, Ms O’Neil described data localisation as “really
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Australia will be “the world’s most cyber-secure country by 2030” under an ambitious new plan outlined by Cyber minister Clare O’Neil in Canberra on Thursday. It includes an entirely new national strategy, new sovereign capabilities and a hardening government systems and critical infrastructure. The Home Affairs and Cybersecurity minister
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Australian lawmakers will consider a new regulator, rules for algorithms and a light touch approach to the metaverse while “mapping” Big Tech over the next year. The focus is squarely on the so-called ‘Big Five’ US firms and their growing market power and influence. The five companies – Google
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Former senior public servants have blasted the federal government’s technology procurement “failings”, including almost no action on the reforms promised half a decade ago, while calling for an overhaul of technology buying. The experts — who include former senior executives at the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) — want a
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