Government agencies participate in cyber-incident exercises
Government agencies and telcos are today taking part in exercises aimed at simulating a major cyber-incident. It comes after millions of Australian's details were compromised in major cyber breaches affecting Optus, Medibank and Latitude Financial. National Cybersecurity Coordinator, Air Marshal Darren Goldie - says today's exercises will help to reduce the impacts of the next cyber-attack.
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00:00 Today is about the telecommunications industry.
00:04 So obviously telecommunications foundational to how we operate as a society, but also very
00:08 important to our national security.
00:10 So working with all of the big telcos on how we can better prepare.
00:16 Today specifically is a desktop about a cascading series of incidents, trying to understand
00:21 what role will we all play and how can we improve the preparedness so that if should
00:25 the worst actually come along, we can have a better response.
00:28 There are quite literally hundreds of cyber professionals working in these companies.
00:32 Our challenge is how we work together so that if there's an incident affecting one part
00:36 of the ecosystem, how do we better communicate across that ecosystem.
00:40 The government's upcoming strategy is looking at ways that the Commonwealth Government can
00:43 facilitate some of that cross-sectoral sharing to make it a better outcome.
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