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Lesley Seebeck

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 cybersecurity skills and solutions.

Australia is proving to be a softer cyber target than we had expected.

It’s not simply that a major news organisation, Nine (publisher of The Australian Financial Review), has been breached, its systems rendered unavailable, with journalists relying on alternative arrangements while hard-pressed IT staff work to restore normal operations.

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Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Geomastery Advisory, and senior advisor, Strategic Analysis Australia.

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    Original URL: https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/australia-s-a-soft-cyber-target-20210328-p57esa