Government support for Australia’s emergent cybersecurity industry will provide much-needed impetus for better collaboration amongst the country’s many security specialists, one Australian security entrepreneur has argued in the wake of the federal Budget’s reassertion of support for the sector.
The government’s Cyber Security Strategy (CSS), launched last month, offered an outline of the Budget’s commitment to bolster national cybersecurity defences – including a $47.3m commitment to establish Joint Cyber Threat Centres and an online threat-sharing portal designed to coalesce the industry around the idea of aligning private and public security interests for a common national cybersecurity defence.
Such broad collaboration would encourage better sharing of information on threats – and Craig McDonald, founder and CEO of long-running Australian security vendor Mailguard, is ready to throw his resources behind the effort. “We’ve got great intelligence that we can be sharing with other groups,” he told CSO Australia. “We’re happy to do that and we do that today. The CSS announcement has highlighted that this definitely is an issue For the full article click here
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