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Prime Minister Turnbull announced<\/a> a significant restructure of Australia\u2019s national security community and Australia\u2019s set to get a new Office of National Intelligence with a yet-to-be-named director. The Australian Signals Directorate will be elevated to a statutory authority within Defence. And longstanding rumours of a \u2018mega-department\u2019 have come to fruition, with Immigration, the AFP and ASIO to be amalgamated into a \u2018Home Office\u2019. The special adviser to the PM on cybersecurity, Alistair MacGibbon, is slated to head the Australian Cyber Security Centre, which is poised to receive a 24\/7 response capability.<\/p>\n

Further details of the restructure, let alone its implications for cybersecurity, aren’t yet clear\u2014but the changes have been described as the most significant in 40 years<\/a>. Some of the changes are in line with the recently published report of the<\/a> Independent Intelligence Review (a summary of the review\u2019s recommendations is available here<\/a>), but critics have noted that the review didn\u2019t consider or provide a recommendation for or against the amalgamation of agencies into a home affairs department, fueling concern about such a systemic change occurring without due diligence. The US also is about to get a shake-up, with US Cyber Command reportedly being split off from<\/a> the National Security Agency.<\/p>\n

The Australian government has announced<\/a> that it will be introducing a new cybersecurity law that would compel tech companies and communications service providers to provide access to terrorist messaging. It\u2019s not the first time<\/a> this issue has come up, and the law comes after more<\/a> than<\/a> a month<\/a> of foreshadowing<\/a>, following the London Bridge attack earlier this year. The move has again stirred controversy over whether such cooperation is a \u2018back door\u2019 or not<\/a>, and whether it can be provided<\/a> without compromising<\/a> security as a whole. There have been some communication issues around the issue, and one of Prime Minister Turnbull\u2019s responses<\/a> has earned<\/a> the<\/a> ire<\/a> of most<\/a> commentators<\/a>, who\u2019ve described the quip as either poorly informed<\/a>, willfully ignorant<\/a> or Orwellian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the sunnier side of cybersecurity, the NSW government is looking to invest $35 million<\/a> in innovation, launching a start-up hub near Wynyard Park designed to accommodate 2,500 people. Similarly, the Government Communications Headquarters is accepting applications for the second round<\/a> of its start-up accelerator program<\/a>, and Dimension Data and Deakin University have launched a six-month accelerator program<\/a> in Melbourne, which is hosting a series of roadshow events<\/a> around the country. Sydney-based software company Atlassian has opened up its bug bounty program<\/a> to the public, offering open-source researchers<\/a> up to $3,000 for each vulnerability they find. And the Japanese government has announced that it will be forming a new Cybersecurity Response Center<\/a> to protect critical infrastructure over the course of the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020.<\/p>\n

Returning to cyber law, Singapore is promulgating a new cybersecurity bill for public consultation. The new bill will introduce<\/a> a new commissioner of cybersecurity, and provide measures to identify and protect critical information infrastructure across 11 essential services sectors. The Netherlands passed a new Intelligence and Security Act<\/a>, introducing new powers<\/a> in international intelligence-sharing and compelling service providers to retain data for three years. And well into its implementation phase is China\u2019s new cybersecurity law\u2014at only two months in, Apple has begun building its first data centre<\/a> in China in line with data sovereignty requirements. China\u2019s also looking at compelling<\/a> communications service providers to prevent the use of virtual private networks, or VPNs, which are routinely used to evade the \u2018Great Firewall\u2019. Whether that will be a blanket ban or a permissions-based system<\/a> remains unclear.<\/p>\n

Health insurance provider Bupa<\/a> suffered a major data breach<\/a> after an aggrieved employee illegally copied and removed customer information from company servers. The leaking employee has been dismissed<\/a>, but information about 547,000 of Bupa\u2019s international policyholders has been leaked, including nearly 20,000 Australians<\/a>. The details taken include names, dates of birth, nationalities, Bupa membership numbers, and some contact details, leading to concern that the highly valuable information will be posted for sale on the dark web. Bupa could be facing some hefty legal penalties. A similar data breach dating back to 2015 cost the parent company of Ashley Madison<\/a> US$11.2 million in a settlement with 37 million affected users.<\/p>\n

In June, false quotes from Qatar\u2019s emir ignited an ongoing diplomatic crisis between Qatar and neighbouring states. Unnamed US intelligence officials are said to have now found evidence<\/a> that the operation to plant those quotes, previously thought to have been conducted by Russia, was conducted by the United Arab Emirates government as part of a long ongoing dispute between the two countries. If that\u2019s true, the case demonstrates the disproportionate impact a cyber offensive campaign can have, and the difficulty that defenders face in trying to identify or \u2018attribute\u2019 the attacker and respond appropriately.<\/p>\n

LastPass, a popular password management software service, has published an infographic<\/a> presenting the findings of a survey it conducted<\/a> on cybersecurity practice across generations. Bangkok Post published a surprisingly close and philharmonic look<\/a> at the motivations of Australia\u2019s Cyber Ambassador and ASPI alumnus Tobias Feakin, talking about the importance of strategy and responsibility ownership in managing cybersecurity investments and tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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