AI is changing how states operationalise their cyber capabilities. In North Korea’s case, it’s transforming the country into a bigger cyber power by helping Pyongyang expand what it already does: generate revenue, obtain trusted access …
Few bilateral relationships matter more to Australia than the one with Indonesia, and few have changed as much over the past 25 years. It is almost forgotten that Australia’s Cold War defence strategy was built …
News about an Indonesian frigate exercising with a Chinese warship 130 to 150 km east of Taiwan was always going to raise eyebrows. The exercise last week was the first time China had conducted such …
Vietnam’s Communist Party chief and president, To Lam, has arrived for his first state visit to Australia since becoming party chief in late 2024. Arriving two years after the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the two …
Canberra’s Horizon 2 Action Plan, released on 11 June, and the Department of Home Affairs’ March acceptance of Jill Slay’s independent review of the Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) Act are both serious attempts to …
Australia’s 2026 National Defence Strategy (NDS) and Integrated Investment Program (IIP) demonstrate a stronger commitment to cyber defence and capability. They reinforce that cyber for Defence is not just about securing networks but also about …
The market for commercial cyber intrusion capabilities (CCICs) is moving faster than the frameworks designed to govern it. What began as a niche ecosystem of surveillance vendors has evolved into a sprawling, fragmented industry. While …
Artificial intelligence is transforming economic cyber-espionage, but the protection of commercially valuable assets has not kept up. Governments and industry cannot rely on pre-AI defences to confront a more scalable, covert and structurally different threat. …
Australia and Taiwan sit at different ends of the Indo-Pacific, but they confront the same underlying problem: deep digitisation has converted efficiency into exposure. Supply-chain cyberattacks in the Indo-Pacific are no longer isolated incidents. They …
Wednesday’s announcement of a new security treaty between Australia and Indonesia marks a meaningful shift in regional diplomacy. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and President Prabowo Subianto’s decision to formalise deeper security cooperation revives a familiar …
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute and Universitas Indonesia, with support from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, have launched Indonesia’s first virtual cyber diplomacy course developed by Indonesians for Indonesians. This marks a meaningful …
Each major cyberattack is treated as a wake-up call. But by now, we shouldn’t be surprised. Last week’s Qantas data leak and September’s Collins Aerospace breach have revealed a pattern of tightly interconnected systems with …











