Tag: Home Affairs

Agencies bound to sluggish cyber threat platform

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government has given agencies 12 months to link up with the national automated cyber threat sharing platform after struggling to get voluntary buy-in over the last two...

Defence to wear new APS contractor cuts

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Defence department will need to find more than $270 million in savings over the next four years as part of the Albanese government’s extended purge of contractors and...

Home Affairs tech at ‘significant risk of failure’

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Home Affairs’ technology environment is at “significant risk of failure”, according to an independent review that says there is no plan to fix the more than 190 IT systems...

New local players cleared for sensitive government data

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Two more Australian tech companies have been cleared to carry protected-level public sector data under the federal government’s Hosting Certification Framework, as an existing provider questions the value of...

New visa rules to prevent critical tech espionage

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Foreign nationals who present an “unreasonable risk of unwanted critical technology knowledge transfer” in areas like artificial intelligence and quantum computing could have their visas cancelled from April under...

Cyber hubs program lacked significant value: Govt evaluation

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The federal government’s cyber hubs program was scrapped after an independent evaluation found the model would not have resulted in a significant cybersecurity uplift or prevented an Optus-style data...