Bringing IT talent into an organisation can be a herculean task at the best of times, but as any hiring manager responsible for digital skills will tell you, there’s no challenge quite like cybersecurity. According to a study from Burning Glass, filling cyber security roles takes 20 per cent more time than typical IT roles….
The pandemic has shown us how little we can take for granted. Much that is hard won is so easily lost. The same has long been true when it comes to Australians’ trust. Yet gaining and maintaining that trust is a crucial step in the ongoing digital transformation that will help to fuel our recovery…
How local NSW districts digitally transformed through COVID-19 The healthcare sector’s immediate response to COVID-19 has prioritised managing and mitigating the direct impact of the disease – from implementing new transmission-aware behaviour and increasing available space in hospitals, to creating new test and trace processes. But that focus has also significantly affected the industry in…
COVID-19 has no doubt ignited tremendous change across all facets of Australian life, with our nation facing some of the biggest challenges we’ve seen in decades. Following increased cyber-attacks since the start of the pandemic, the Australian Government has realised the importance of protecting our critical infrastructure and moving towards a strategy aimed at safeguarding…
Government and critical infrastructure are struggling to manage disparate identity processes and siloed physical and digital access systems in the face of rising cyber threats. Daltrey’s Michael Warnock says a universal biometric identity could be the solution. Sovereign capability is essential for secure identity The increase in serious cyberattacks on Australian organisations is a worrying…
Over the last two years, we as a nation have greatly shifted our view on how personal data should be handled and stored. First came the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where Facebook enabled the organisation to harvest data from over 300,000 Australian user profiles. This was then followed by the EU’s GDPR regulations, which sought to…
Cybersecurity is a balancing act, bridging the perceptual dichotomy between protection and productivity. It’s not an easy task but it can be made easier by considering it in the context of organisational Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) measures. Fundamentally, GRC is a combined approach towards governance, risk, and compliance, aided by information technology. While GRC…
Healthcare organisations – both within Australia and across the world – have traditionally been fairly slow-moving when it comes to the adoption of innovative digital services. This is especially true in the realm of cybersecurity and data privacy, with a lack of hard-and-fast regulatory guidelines resulting in a patchwork of data privacy and compliance standards. The…
When the Federal Government introduced the Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) program in 2010, it was a great leap forward in cyber security. The program allowed agencies to easily assess and procure a range of ASD accredited SIG packages, with the ASD’s ‘stamp of approval’ providing assurance that the solution was robust and up to all…
At the start of 2020, IDC predicted that public and private cloud spending would outperform “traditional IT spending” – think on-premise IT and legacy applications – in the forthcoming year. Of course, they weren’t accounting for a global pandemic, which has sent cloud spending into the stratosphere, while traditional IT spending wanes. Supporting this continued…