The DSR, to which Macquarie contributed a detailed submission during public consultation, sets the agenda for ambitious, but necessary, reform to Defence’s posture and structure. The DSR notably places strong emphasis on cybersecurity as an important defensive and offensive capability within Defence, and hints at a new commitment by the Albanese Government to grow Australia’s sovereign industrial capability through the DSR’s updated uplift programs.
Macquarie Government Managing Director Aidan Tudehope said, “the new regional strategic environment articulated in the DSR underscores the need to include cybersecurity in the Defence reform agenda given its horizontal effect across all five military domains, notwithstanding to Australia’s critical infrastructure and systems of national significance. Cyber is a form of power projection which can be used in advance of kinetic attacks, or to cripple critical…
