Australia needs to coordinate national digital infrastructure investment and resilience or risk falling behind in security and missing economic opportunities. For the past decade, Australia has focused outward on projects such as funding regional telecommunications …
Introduction of mandatory ransomware payment reporting in Australia today is a welcome development. But it won’t reach its full potential as a cybersecurity mechanism unless the government openly shares what it learns from these reports. …
Taiwan is among nations pioneering the adoption of hyperscale cloud services to achieve national digital resilience. The island faces two major digital threats: digital isolation, in which international connectivity is intentionally severed or significantly degraded …
Samoa and Papua New Guinea’s recent experiences with cyber intrusions are the latest reminders of the urgent need for enhanced cybersecurity resilience in the Pacific. What’s needed is capacity building and coordinated response initiatives. On …
Australia must do more to shape its artificial intelligence future. The release of DeepSeek is a stark reminder that if Australia does not invest in its own AI solutions, it will remain reliant on foreign …
Building public trust is vital to creating effective artificial intelligence (AI) regulation in Australia—not sovereign large-scale datasets. The assertion that AI regulation would be ineffective without the existence of large-scale sovereign datasets—as recently argued in …
Most people never think of undersea communications cables. Well, the people of Tasmania were thinking of them in 2022, when the state’s two main subsea cables were both severed within hours of each other. The …
Australia has an opportunity to strengthen its position as a regional digital hub in the Indo-Pacific, as the submarine cable industry undergoes a transformation. Capitalising on this chance will take strategic focus and decisive action. …
AUKUS won’t work without seamless information sharing and data exchange between the partner nations and their private sectors. And getting that right will demand the establishment of a common federated cloud-based platform that leverages artificial …
Despite numerous scandals and calls for it to be banned, TikTok, the Chinese-owned app, continues to enjoy immense popularity in Australia. ByteDance, the Beijing-based company that owns and controls TikTok, is currently under investigation by …
Last week’s Optus data breach exposed the personally identifiable information of up to 9.8 million customers and former customers in Australia, including sensitive identity document details, with records going as far back as 2017. Although …
The AUKUS pact is an important piece of regional architecture that has the potential to operate as a technology accelerator to strengthen security and stability in the Indo-Pacific. It seeks to do this by enhancing …
