Australia's cyber strategy

LowyInterpreter:

"At a government level, there are solid efforts to strengthen defences, including 'a rolling programme of independent assessments of Government agencies’ implementation of the Australian Signals Directorate’s Strategies to Mitigate Targeted Cyber Intrusions'. After the debacle at the Office of Personnel Management in the US, there is ample evidence this issue needs to be taken extremely seriously. And as the strategy admirably acknowledges, an audit of seven Australian government agencies found 'most fell well short'. "



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U.S. weighs disclosure

 Reuters:

"That law enables an Internet surveillance program known as Prism that was first disclosed in a series of leaks by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden nearly three years ago.

Prism gathers messaging data from Alphabet Inc's Google , Facebook Inc, Microsoft Corp, Apple Inc and other major tech companies that is sent to and from a foreign target under surveillance.

Intelligence officials say data about Americans is "incidentally" collected during communication with a target reasonably believed to be living overseas. Critics see it as back-door surveillance of Americans without a warrant."



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Australia pledges A$230m to prevent a ‘lawless’ cyber domain

computerWeekly:

"Australia has adopted a new cyber security strategy, backed by a government pledge to invest A$230m over the next four years, which will include beefing up its computer emergency response team (Cert), the first responder for major incidents."



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