Australia’s cybersecurity maturity, infrastructure protections lag US by “large gap”: ACCS
From: CSO
Election-time review of Australian policy slams shallow government policy, navel-gazing academics
A UNSW review of Australia’s government cybersecurity policies has slammed a “relative lack of attention” to persistent policy gaps and shortcomings that it says have kept the country well behind its peers in areas such as education and training policies, and planning for security breaches causing critical-infrastructure disasters.
Developed as an election-time input to help the next government set its agenda on cybersecurity policy, the UNSW-affiliated Australian Centre for Cyber Security (ACCS) white paper noted that despite “impressive” growth in the federal budget through 2020, the Australian government had understated its exposure to cybersecurity threats that have been openly acknowledged and addressed by comparable authorities in the US.
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