How Australia can better show its cyber progress
I wanted to understand a simple question: when officials update Australia’s Minister for Cyber Security on the national cyber strategy, what do they report as progress...
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Cyber in Australia
A close look at how cybersecurity works in Australia, and the cultural and conceptual foundations that I aim to challenge.
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Cyber Wardens: What the $23 million program delivered and measured
The Australian Government committed up to $22.995 million over three years, from 2023–24 to 2025–26, to an ad hoc grant for the Council of Small Business Organisations...
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Active Defense and Hacking Back
This week, I joined a roundtable discussion on Active Defense - a topic I’ve explored before and even wrote a paper about back in 2016. It’s been some time since I rev...
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Why Cyber Education in Australia is F*cked
Everyone says Australia’s cybersecurity education system is broken. It isn’t — it’s doing exactly what it was built to do. It absorbs public money, recycles empty pro...
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Red Teaming Australia's National Cyber Strategy (2025)
Imagine you are part of a cybercriminal gang, deciding which region of the world to target next. Australia has always been lucrative, but now there’s talk of a new nat...
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When a Cybersecurity Standard Becomes the Villain
Nothing says “we’re here to help small businesses” quite like charging $95 to read the rules - and threatening to sue if you share them. This is the story of how one c...
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Ransomware ‘69s’ Australia
ACN’s State of the Industry 2024 report states that “69 per cent of businesses have experienced a ransomware attack” (p. 21 and 27). This is obviously an error – 1,83...