This month, the Minister for Home Affairs and Cyber Security, the Hon. Clare O’Neil MP introduced six key shields that underpin Australia’s upcoming Cyber Security Strategy.
These shields span diverse domains from advancing automated threat detection, sharing and blocking, to fostering coordinated global cyber security efforts through international collaboration.
Australia’s fourth shield is singularly committed to defending critical infrastructure from cyber threats, acknowledging the potentially catastrophic impacts of service loss across the nation. This shield also underscores the crucial need for the Government to enhance its cyber defences, given its ownership of vital infrastructure and responsibility for safeguarding sensitive data. This emphasis is well-founded, considering the escalating cyber security threats targeting critical infrastructure globally. It is in this context that Attack Surface Management (ASM) has emerged as a cornerstone of modern cyber security practices, and is pivotal to creating cyber resilience across national critical infrastructure.
In August this year, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) outlined…
