Vietnam's cyber risks make it a mixed bag
Vietnam's economy is still growing rapidly, and it has big tech ambitions, but some factors work against it as being a safe environment for investors.
Vietnam's economy is still growing rapidly, and it has big tech ambitions, but some factors work against it as being a safe environment for investors.
Australia should develop a national security response that addresses all vectors of risk to all sectors of society, but at the same time, it should not reinvent the wheel, according to Secretary Mike Pezzullo.
Huston says the internet is a 'gigantic vanity-reinforcing distorted TikTok selfie' and web security is 'the punchline to some demented sick joke'. But Australia's first Privacy Commissioner thinks he's being optimistic.
Cyber conflict isn't about cyberwar, says The Grugq. It's about a global cyber power struggle that never ends, where even K-pop bands can influence nation states.
Finally, after 11 long months, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has delivered a drab and inward-looking cybersecurity plan and has complained about encryption yet again.
The government's coronavirus strategy bets heavily on an unproven COVID-19 tracing app, but the lack of a working back end and ham-fisted messaging risks the loss of the public's trust.
Labor proposes a public health approach, to cybersecurity, addressing the risk and susceptibility of the whole nation to cyber attack, not just critical infrastructure or 'big-ticket capabilities'.
Australians are concerned about the risks of biometric identification, but still find its use acceptable in a wide range of scenarios.
Australia's cybersecurity is too important to struggle along with part-time attention, say submitters to the Cyber Security Strategy 2020. The public no longer trusts the government's computer skills.
The goal of an 'open and free internet' has been dropped from Australia's proposed national cybersecurity strategy. Job done, apparently.