Australian Government news stories

In line with new legal requirements put in place by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), e-invoicing practices are being widely rolled out in a bid to enhance the Australian economy.

“There has never been a more critical time for Government agencies to regain control of their procurement and invoicing functions."

Without significant white-collar migration to Australia, in the short term, there are simply not enough skilled and trained professionals to fill certain industries.

The Australian Federal Government has put forward its Ransomware Action Plan - a new set of processes built on the 2020 cybersecurity strategy, which was a welcome addition in its own right. 

“The Certified Strategic listing of our portfolio is further proof that Macquarie Data Centres is rising to the evolving expectations of private and public sector customers."

The appointment enables the company to offer the Australian government a range of cloud applications for finance, human resources, and planning.

The Intellicentre 5 Bunker (IC5) is critical infrastructure designed to support Australia’s data sovereignty, national cyber security and digital skills development, according to a statement from Macquarie.

The report explores ways in which governments and manufacturers could improve their products and repair processes for independent repairers and consumers.

With increasingly secure cloud options available, there is little holding agencies back from embracing cloud. 

The initiative around tech growth and investment in the budget presents a robust start on a longer term need to support the development and adoption of technology.

Australian businesses have high expectations for the Government’s upcoming budget. 

“The completion of the IRAP assessment now allows Snowflake to work with all Australian Government agencies since many departments require the protected status to have been reached."

"The AIIA has provided feedback and advice on the proposed National AI Strategy, now is the time for the Federal Government to step up and commit their support.”

Initially, the new offering will support the information security needs of Australian government departments and agencies as they seek to improve their risk and compliance maturity.

This grant will help to further develop the platform to enable Australian workers and businesses impacted by COVID-19 to acquire applicable digital micro-skills for free.

Today more than ever, Australia is seen as ‘the lucky country’, writes Cradlepoint's Gavin Wilson.

Macquarie Data Centres and Macquarie Government are set to launch a new Government-certified, highly secure data centre facility in Canberra.

"This is an exciting time for archTIS as it continues to successfully execute our strategy to become the global leader of policy enforcement in the protection and sharing of sensitive and classified information.”

Zscaler completed IRAP’s two security assessment stages, as dictated in the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM).

The platform, which utilises Catalyst Cloud’s hosting infrastructure and amazee.io’s open source hosting platform called Lagoon, based on Kubernetes.

Specifically, in the six months to December 2019, Australia's Notifiable Data Breaches scheme recorded 537 breaches, including malicious or criminal attacks, and cyber-incidents.

We look at the a recent indepenedent report into the controversial legislation that Australian Security agencies use to intercept digital communications

Austrade has named 50 Australian cybersecurity companies well placed to meet the needs of the country’s cyber defence projects.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison told media on Friday morning that a 'malicious' attack by a state-based cyber actor is underway in the country.