The government's long awaited 2023-2030 Cyber Security Strategy is now public. The press release for it says "Australia was in a cyber slumber" but now the "Albanese Labor Government is determined to act decisively and do what is necessary to protect Australians from the fastest growing threat that we face as a nation", putting "cyber criminals on notice". I'm sure they're shaking in their boots. The Strategy also comes with $586.9m of additional funding to implement various programs like "$4.8m in establishing long-overdue consumer standards for smart devices and software", "$9.4m to build a threat sharing platform for the health sector", "$8.6m in professionalising our cyber workforce and accelerating the cyber industry" and more. If you want some analysis of the strategy (you don't pay me enough to read it), this article on The Conversation is the only one I've seen not behind a paywall.
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