Home Affairs scores $42m to secure critical infrastructureThe federal government will provide $42.4 million to the Department of Home Affairs to secure critical infrastructure assets and help owners and operators respond to major cyber attacks. The funding, revealed in the budget on Tuesday, comes ahead of the introduction of the Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill 2020, which is currently before parliament.

CyberCX releases threat assessment, predicts surge in data extortion - APDRCyberCX, Australia’s largest independent cyber security company, released its inaugural Annual Threat Assessment that covers the threat landscape across Australia and New Zealand and predictions for how the behaviour of cyber criminals and nation-state actors will evolve in the year ahead. CyberCX addresses the need for locally informed commentary on regional and global threats.

The Australian government’s top cyber security agency says local businesses are facing extensive attacks and have been compromised by a Microsoft bug that allowed a suspected China-based state-sponsored hacking group to access tens of thousands of corporate emails from across the world. Australian Cyber Security Centre, which sits within the Australian Signals Directorate, has been working with local organisations in the fallout of the major security flaws being revealed last week by Microsoft.

ArchTIS targets US Govt contracts with new initiativeCanberra-based security ISV ArchTIS is making a huge play for the US market in an effort to leverage its recent acquisition of Nucleus Cyber. To capture a share of the increased government demand for advanced information protection solutions, the company is launching a dedicated federal sales and channel practice in the United States. Founded in 2006, ArchTIS creates solutions for secure sharing and collaboration of sensitive data.

archTIS subsidiary Nucleus Cyber has successfully renewed an annual software subscription license contract with the Australian Department of Defence. archTIS completed the acquisition of Nucleus Cyber in December 2020. The renewal of this subscription license comes as an endorsement of the shared products and sales team capabilities of the merged businesses, the company states.

Continuing to ride the recent demand for state-of-the-art cybersecurity, software company archTIS (ASX: AR9) has leveraged its recent acquisition of Nucleus Cyber by extending its annual software subscription with the Australian Department of Defence. The subscription is for the NC Protect product, part of the Nucleus acquisition completed at the end of 2020, which gave the Company a path to expand into the lucrative North American software market.

Vault Systems sells 23 percent stake to Moelis Australia - Cloud - Services  - CRN Australia Canberra-based cloud provider Vault has told the government it has serious concerns that the data and cloud sector has no regulator even though it is the country's most critical infrastructure sector as it links to all critical infrastructure sectors. The company was responding to a call for submissions to the government's consultation paper on protecting critical infrastructure and systems of national significance.

Andy Penn A permanent 10-person advisory committee, helmed by Telstra boss Andy Penn, has been established to guide the implementation of the federal government’s $1.7 billion cybersecurity strategy. The 2020 Cyber Security Strategy was unveiled by the government in August, with the bulk of funding going towards the Australian Signals Directorate and Australian Federal Police, and a focus on protecting critical infrastructure.

Story image emt Distribution has signed an agreement with bluedog Security Monitoring to distribute its cybersecurity services to the A/NZ and APAC region. According to a statement from the company, bluedog is focused on SMBs in particular, and aims to make monitoring services accessible to businesses of all sizes. Meanwhile, emt Distribution is a value-added distributor, offering cybersecurity solutions that address the Australian Signals Directorate's top four mitigation strategies dubbed Catch, Patch and Match..

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