Macquarie Technology Group (MTG) marks the 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy as an ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to improve collaboration between industry, government and intelligence.
Aidan Tudehope, MTG Co-founder and Macquarie Government Managing Director said: “(This) strategy establishes cyber security as a unifying nationwide endeavour, led by the Federal Government as the exemplar, but delivered in synchronicity with all tiers of government, the private sector and the wider economy. This is a nationwide pursuit which requires a nationwide approach to succeed.”
Tudehope specifically welcomed the major uplift in Australian organisations’ cyber security posture, particularly among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), announced by the Government in the cyber health-check program and Small Business Cyber Resilience Service.
“SMEs are currently exempt from Australian privacy laws and many data protection, deletion and governance requirements. But they make up about 95 per cent of all organisations in Australia – many are part of Government and critical infrastructure supply chains, sharing data and digitally interacting with entities crucial to the nation’s economy and national resilience.
“Organisations with an immature understanding of cyber and privacy measures could be inadvertently creating risk for other, potentially more critical organisations, and we strongly welcome the Government’s targeted support to help SMEs achieve new levels of cyber security and sophistication.”
“To become the world’s most secure nation by 2030 – and to build beyond that as cyber threats aren’t static – the Strategy rightly focuses on uplifting everyone,” he said.
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