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Audit: ANAO finds Services Australia lacking in cyber and cost aspects of WPIT | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Sep 25, 2020 | Australia, Australian Audit Report 2020, Federal Government, Government Agency, Risk Management, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Audit Report September 2020: ANAO finds Services Australia lacking in cyber and cost aspects of WPIT. Services Australia did not apply an appropriate framework to manage cyber security risk.

IT security increasingly becoming a board-level issue | SecurityBrief Australia

by Steven Kirby | Oct 17, 2017 | Australia, Board, Cybersecurity, Governance Risk and Compliance, Risk Management, SecurityBrief Australia | 0 |

Many organisations have traditionally placed responsibility for their cybersecurity squarely in the hands of the IT department. This is a situation that is now rapidly changing. Source: SecurityBrief Australia – IT...

Incident: Metro Trains fined $1.2m over IT fail that downed network | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Sep 4, 2017 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2017, Availability, Breach Response, Business Continuity, iTnews, Outage, Penalty, Risk Management, State Government, Transport and Logistics, Victoria | 0 |

Melbourne’s train operator Metro Trains has been fined $1.2 million over the IT outage that shut down the commuter network during rush hour in mid-July. Source: Metro Trains fined $1.2m over IT fail that downed network...

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Audit: ANAO finds Services Australia lacking in cyber and cost aspects of WPIT | ZDNet

IT security increasingly becoming a board-level issue | SecurityBrief Australia

Incident: Metro Trains fined $1.2m over IT fail that downed network | iTnews

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