Oksana Patron

The Ministry for Defence has announced it will work towards implementing a 50% target for women participation across key STEM programs.

Only 53% of councils across New South Wales had a formal cyber security strategy or plan in place in 2022.

Australia’s education system fail to deliver job-ready graduates across most in-demand areas such as cybersecurity and AI.

Under the new Queensland Budget 2023-24, the Cyber Security Unit (CSU) will be provided increased funding of $59.4 million.

The ASIC is aiming to further foster a culture of cyber awareness by encouraging financial entities to measure their own cyber resilience.

Kinetic IT has been awarded the major contract to become ATO’s lead enterprise service management partner.

The expansion of Australian tech workforce to 935,000 in February represented an achievement of  78% of the Government’s 2030 target of 1.2 million tech jobs.

The ACSC has released a joint advisory to highlight a recently discovered cluster of activity “associated with a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber actor”.

The Government will provide $7.35m to the Norfolk Island Regional Council (NIRC) for upgrades to its telecommunications network.

The Regulatory Technology round of the BRII has granted close to $5m for five Australian companies to develop new digital technologies.

Minister for Foreign Affairs has appointed Brendan Dowling as Australia’s next Ambassador for Cyber Security and Critical Technology.

Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts has announced a tender for a new IT managed services provider.

Conduent Business Services has been awarded a new 15-year contract to operate and improve Victoria’s public transport ticketing system, myki.

The ACCC has welcomed $58 million in funding to complete the setup of the National Anti-Scam Centre (NASC) over the next two years.

The ACMA has taken action against Sinch Australia Pty Ltd, Infobip Information Technology Pty Ltd and Phone Card Selector Pty Ltd.