The Australian Cyber Security Center (ACSC) has published its annual Cyber Threat Report. The ACSC is an operational arm of the Australian government. It is responsible for “strengthening the nation’s cyber resilience, and for identifying, mitigating and responding to cyber threats against Australian interests. The ACSC also manages ReportCyber on behalf of federal, state and territory law enforcement agencies, providing a single online portal for individuals and businesses to report cybercrime.”
Over the year ended June 30th 2020, they “responded to 2,266 cyber security incidents and received 59,806 cybercrime reports at an average of 164 cybercrime reports per day, or one report every 10 minutes.”
Of the cyber security incidents, 803 (35.4%) were reported by government agencies. Healthcare was the sector with the next highest level of incidents at 164.
To put those statistics into context, according to the Australian government, as of June 30, 2019 there were “2,375,753 actively trading businesses in the Australian economy”. Of those, 141,628 were in healthcare.
So there was roughly 0.6 security incidents reported per thousand businesses, 1.2 per thousand in healthcare.
Cybercrime is a very broad category, including not only fraud but also online bullying and the sharing of intimate images or…
