Australia Centralizes Government Cybersecurity Response

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The Australian government says it will centralize its approach to securing federal agencies by appointing a coordinator to head the new National Office for Cyber Security within the Department of Home Affairs.

The appointment comes after the country down under experienced back-to-back major data breaches. Medibank, Australia’s largest private health insurer, saw Russia-based ransomware hackers dump gigabytes’ worth of stolen health claims online, while telecommunications company Optus suffered a data breach affecting approximately 10 million people. The government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has since vowed it will transform into “the world’s most cyber-secure country by 2030” (see: Australia Aims to Be World’s ‘Most Cyber-Secure’ Country).

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