Major commonwealth departments will offer cyber services to smaller government agencies through three Cyber Hub pilots, according to employment minister Stuart Robert. In an address to the Australian Financial Review Government Summit on Wednesday, Robert noted that some agencies “cannot compete for skills and resources in the marketplace”.
To address this, the government will establish three Cyber Hub pilots to “enable leading agencies such as Defence, Home Affairs and Services Australia to provide cyber services for those agencies that cannot match their breadth and depth of skills”, Robert announced.
Robert said similar models may be utilised in the future to deliver other scalable services.
“This may include broader ICT functions — such as secure email, or corporate services — such as finance or HR,” he said....MORE
