Cyber Security

Australians should not be under any illusion. The risk of cyber attack at a personal, government and corporate level poses a security threat greater than any Australia has experienced. It is far greater than we faced during the darkest period of the Cold War in the mid-1950s. We are today at war again. A cyber war.

And we face this threat in an environment where many individuals and organisations have no idea of the extent of the risks we face, let alone how to mitigate them. These risks include:

• At the citizen level, the wholesale theft of financial assets, theft of identity, ransom/blackmail, manipulation of public thinking, falsification of information, the denial of service to banking facilities, telecommunications and the internet.

• The theft of data held in corporate and government servers, including intellectual property, government secrets or confidential personal data....MORE