October 2024
The new cybersecurity bills will do nothing to create trust
Companies need to know that information revealed in a cybersecurity emergency won’t be used to sue them. These bills don’t offer much assurance.
July 2021
Pulling the drawbridge can’t save us from health or cyber pandemics
Castle-and-moat cyber security has been abandoned because all threats can’t be blocked. This lesson needs to be applied to lockdowns that can never eliminate the virus.
June 2021
Calling in the army reveals disdain for bureaucrats
The government’s turning to the military for a supposed quick fix for the vaccine rollout points to the need to rebuild confidence in the civilian arms of the public service.
March 2021
Australia’s a soft cyber target
As the demand curve of digital risks grows exponentially, it is exposing the yawning gap between the flat, minimally growing supply line of cyber security skills and solutions.
October 2020
Cyberspace is the new wild west frontier between nations
Digital wars are taking their place alongside physical wars. But do not expect any future treaties to control their effects.
August 2020
Australia needs a cyber minister and a new cyber agency
Australia's cyber security community is not up to the job expected of it. It is time for an ONA-style gathering of resources.
We have no strategy for tackling the dark side of digital
The federal government's cyber plan is long on action points but short on any organising principles. This is worrying.
June 2020
Grey zone strike means cyber war
While the PM shrank from calling out China for the massive probing attack, expansion of technical skills and strategic statecraft is now urgently needed to arm Australia's cyber defences.
April 2020
App is no silver bullet for virus, yet a honey pot for the malign
COVIDSafe is not just about health and disease. It is about how government views citizens, privacy and transparency.