Australia’s Victoria Leads On National Cyber Strategy

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Victoria is Australia’s leading cyber security hub, with a thriving tech base that is developing global security solutions. It has also opened major foreign investment opportunities to locally develop and deliver world-class security for Australian businesses and defence.

Home to over 150 national and multinational cyber security organisations, Victoria’s thriving technology sector has produced some of Australia’s most successful cyber providers with a skilled cyber security workforce of nearly 9,000 providing a driving force in its ongoing success.

The aim is for Victoria will work towards a complete government cyber operations model to improve risk management across all of the state’s public service. Victoria is now set-up a central cyber defence centre and whole-of-government cyber operating model this year. And they have just released their cyber strategy statement.

“The cyber threat environment in Australia continues to grow in scale and complexity. Three years ago, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) released landmark statistics indicating that a new cyber-attack was reported in Australia every 10 minutes.

“Fast-forward to 2022, and the time between cyber-attacks has reduced to 7 minutes, with almost one-in-four of these attacks causing harm to someone in Victoria... Late 2021, the Victorian Government released Victoria’s Cyber Strategy, backed by a $50.8 million investment. The five-year strategy sets the government’s vision for creating a cyber safe Victoria, a place where government, industry and the community can connect and deliver services safely and securely online.

The ACSC is delivering the strategy with three core missions:

Improving the safe and reliable delivery of government services.

Creating a cyber safe place to work, live and learn.

Supporting a vibrant cyber economy.

“In the first year of delivery, we have heavily focused on building the solid foundations and partnerships across government and industry that are required to see the strategy succeed over the next four years,” says the Cyber Strategy Statement by the Victorian Government Chief Information Security Officer.

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