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Lesley Seebeck

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.

This week, while Australia continues to experience isolationism through lockdown, global interconnectedness continues to challenge any false sense of security.

Investigations into the Pegasus spyware show how some governments are using technology to reach into the lives of individuals, while statements by allied governments against Chinese hacking – just as China sends ships to monitor defence exercises in Queensland – illustrate an increasingly heated geopolitical environment.

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

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