The Essential Eight Maturity Model, first published in June 2017 and updated regularly. The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has further strengthened the implementation guidance for the Essential Eight through changes that reflect its experience in producing cyber threat intelligence, responding to cyber security incidents, conducting penetration testing and assisting organisations to…
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Collecting Airborne IFSAR for Southeast Asian Government Agency. Malaysia’s federal mapping agency plans to map their sovereign territory on the island of Borneo, the largest island in Asia and the third largest in the world. Intermap, a geospatial content development and intelligence solutions provider was chosen by the Government to complete mapping the program.…
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SGTraDex to digitalise the supply chain ecosystem. Singapore Government has announced that the country will be stepping up investments to unlock the full potential of the digital revolution through collective action. Building “digital infrastructure” for the future – SGTraDex The pandemic has accelerated the overall shift to digital. Building a…
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Commonwealth, state and territory governments sign an agreement to share data across jurisdictions. Two levels of Australia’s government have signed an agreement to share data across jurisdictions as a default position, where it can be done securely, safely, lawfully and ethically. Access to data is critical for policy, service delivery,…
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Conduct in-depth threat hunts to continuously validate the secure nature of the environment. The NSW Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) has signed deal to tightly integrated solution delivering a fully managed Security Monitoring Service, (Security Operations Centre (SOC) and Managed Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)) that offers real-time…
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Leveraging each other’s expertise, technical capabilities and global best practices. CyberSecurity Malaysia, the national cybersecurity specialist agency under the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia (KKMM), will work with Telekom Malaysia Berhard ™ to empower and strengthen the level of cybersecurity in Malaysia. The initiative between both parties includes the…
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The past 12 months was dominated by ransomware, online scams, and COVID-19-related phishing activities The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) released its Singapore Cyber Landscape (SCL) 2020 publication today, revealing an increase in cyber threats such as ransomware and online scams in 2020. CSA’s SingCERT (Singapore Computer Emergency Response…
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Australian State education department deactivates a number of internal systems. Just days before students are to return to online school learning, the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education has been a victim of a cyber-security attack. The State is currently under COVID-19 lockdown due to resurgence in transmissions. Students…
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Accelerating Government digitisation. The Singapore Government will spend up to an estimated S$3.8 billion on info-communications technology (ICT) procurement this year, an almost 10 per cent increase from FY20’s procurement value of S$3.5 billion. This spending will go towards transforming government digital services used by both citizens and businesses, and…
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Added on top of existing services. Australian State Government agency, the New South Wales Department of Customer Service (NSW DCS) has extended an agreement with MessageXchange, a business-to-business integration solutions company, to now include EDI. The service will be available to the whole of NSW government, is known as Transactions.buy. NSW…
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