4 years ago
Enhancing the cyber security of Australia’s universities
THE HON DAN TEHAN MP
The Morrison Government will provide $1.6 million to enhance the cyber security of Australia’s universities.
The Government will fund:
- A threat intelligence-sharing network
- Sector-wide threat modelling
- A national cybersecurity forum that will meet three times a year
- Minister for Education Dan Tehan said cyber security was every Australian’s responsibility.
- “Our Government is working with the higher education sector to protect students, research and academic integrity at our universities,” Mr Tehan said.
- “Enhancing cyber security in the higher education sector has been a core task of Government, universities and national security agencies working through the University Foreign Interference Taskforce.
- “The development of threat modelling and intelligence sharing between universities and government will help identify new and emerging threats as well as best-practice responses.
- “A unified approach to cyber security gives Australia the opportunity to harness the innovative power of its universities to strengthen our national security and advance our nation as a leader in cyber security.
- “We have seen our universities targeted by malicious cyber actors and this project will strengthen our collective defences against future threats.
- “Enhancing cyber security was a key recommendation made in The Guidelines for countering foreign interference in the Australian University Sector published last year.”
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