Despite many of the information security threats faced by Australian governments and the private sector coming from known sources, not enough is not being done to block bad actors, according to the minister for cyber security and law enforcement, Angus Taylor.
Taylor said that he was not calling for an “Internet filter” but said he would push for increased collaboration between the government and businesses, including telcos, cloud providers, data centre operators and software providers, to block known malicious domains.
“Between us we see much of the activity and many of the threats,” the minister said in remarks prepared for the Technology in Government conference.
“It is my intention to develop this model within the government, as an exemplar, and then roll it out to our key partners,” Taylor said.
The minister said he would work towards the creation of a “threat picture”, based on data from Defence, law enforcement, government agencies and the private sector.
“Under this concept we would have a common threat picture, a known target list and a set of…
