The process of developing a national cybersecurity capability requires a complete overhaul of technology and R&D processes that will take 10 to 20 years to complete, according to a government-security academic who warns that it will be “problematic” if Australia fails to retain a leadership role in the fast-evolving transformation.
Australia has always been “a little bit backward” in general ICT posture and military planning around cybersecurity, Dr Greg Austin, a visiting professor at the UNSW-ADFA joint venture Australian Centre for Cyber Security (ACSC), told CSO Australia in the wake of a recent conference exploring forward requirements for Australia’s cybersecurity capability.
Improving that capability would require the kind of candid public discussions that the government had historically shied away from in the name of security, Austin said, noting “reluctance in the highest levels to embrace these ideals publicly.”
Growing concern over cybersecurity – and an ever-growing hit list of successfully hacked organisations – had increasingly led to demand for “a clear public strategy from the government”, Austin said, so that the academic and research community “can do all that we have to in terms of public research, mobilising the industry, and mobilising the population in terms of having people knowing what we’re doing and training up for it.” For the full article click here
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