Australia to set up cyber security complex in Melbourne

Australian government will partner with Oxford University to set up an ultra-modern cyber security complex in Melbourne, the capital of Victoria.

The government for the first time will allow one of the group’s one-of-a-kind security hubs to be erected outside Britain, Xinhua reported.

Under the agreement, eight of the state’s universities, the Melbourne-based Defence Science Institute and other private companies will be enlisted for the project.

These hubs carry out audits of national cyber risks. Two will be set up and begin operating in the first half of 2016, according to the government.

In addition to the main deal, the government also revealed it had negotiated an agreement for Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to relocate its digital research programme, Data61 to Melbourne.

The National Broadband Network (NBN), most of Australia’s major banks and its largest telecommunications company, Telstra, also base their cyber-security operations in Melbourne. For the full article click here 

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