Replacing vulnerable but nationally critical information-technology systems takes too long. Australia should follow the United States and subsidise their replacement. While old systems of national significance (SoNS) remain in place, they’re magnets for foreign powers …
Australia is experiencing a once-in-a-generation energy build-out. Offshore wind and distributed energy systems are being deployed at speed, reshaping how electricity is generated, coordinated and controlled. The urgency—driven by decarbonisation, reliability and resilience—is exposing a …
NATO’s decision to approve configured iPhones and iPads for handling classified information up to NATO restricted level—without requiring special software or settings—highlights a shift in how governments approach secure mobility. The significance lies not in …
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 …
In the space of just a few days, two big US tech companies took different approaches to China’s cyberattacks. Palo Alto Networks generically referred to a global cyber espionage operation by unnamed actors while Google …
