Big blue builds new national cybersecurity centre in Canberra

IBM is establishing a National Cyber Security Centre in Canberra (NCSC) to foster greater collaboration with government and business.

The centre is to be led by former Australian Federal Police assistant Commissioner Kevin Zuccato, who will oversee a team of cybersecurity specialists. Zuccato led the Australian High Tech Crime Centre for five years. The investment by IBM follows the release of the new national Cyber Security Strategy, which calls for much closer collaboration between government, cyber tech firms and corporates with large cyber capability such as the telcos and banks.

Traditionally there has been a world-wide reluctance to share data and intelligence among vendors and gateway providers. Till now, cybersecurity within government had been dominated by the military community.

The new cybersecurity strategy calls for a much more collaborative model, with the Australian Cyber Security Centre to be taken out of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation headquarters and relocated to a facility that allows it to grow, and enables government and the private sector to work more effectively together.

The government’s new strategy recognises the importance of partnerships involving public officials, the private sector and community to encourage the information sharing and best-practice. IBM have broken with the global vendor community and have established a global threat-sharing platform, which provides open access to real-time threat intelligence. For the full article click here 

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