The Albanese Government has declared another 87 critical infrastructure assets to be Systems of National Significance, bringing the total number of Systems of National Significance to 168 across the energy, communications, transport, financial services and markets, and data storage or processing sectors.
Systems of National Significance are Australia’s most vital critical infrastructure assets that underpin our social and economic stability, defence and national security.
Being declared a System of National Significance means the Australian Government can apply a robust set of enhanced cyber security obligations on the owners and operators.
These obligations include developing response plans to prepare for a cyber security incident; undertaking cyber security exercises to build cyber preparedness; undertaking assessments to identify and fix vulnerabilities; and providing system information to the Australian Signals Directorate to develop and maintain a near-real time threat picture.
These declarations follow the Government switching on the Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Program obligation in February 2023. The Risk Management Program requires owners and operators of…
