The Victorian government will seek economies of scale in the way it buys cyber security tools and services, via a new whole-of-government sourcing arrangement.
Deputy CISO Shane Moffitt unveiled the new cyber security state purchase contract in a LinkedIn post.
State purchase contracts contain a list of approved technologies and suppliers, and are intended to maximise the state’s buying power and reduce risk by negotiating contract terms and conditions with the suppliers in advance.
The arrangement initially covers four key security domains: endpoint protection, vulnerability management, application control and third-party risk management.
For endpoint, the admitted technologies come from Fortinet, CrowdStrike and Microsoft; for vulnerability management they are Tenable and…
