E-security: Government Strategies?
Almost missed it again…..E-Security Awareness Week. Here’s the details and awesome video with great security tip for all:
http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/awareness-week
Computerworld reports that; “Govt preaches security to slack business“. Anyone have a copy of the presentations? Be interesting to find out what was spoken about.
Still keen to know what the Government itself is really doing as posted here. More probing into the Government’s role was this post by SGirl here. It copped a bit of criticism but more support than anything else.
CNVA Program “suspended” as reported here.
Movement on the E-Security strategy front I hear??!!….But how does it all relate to the above and what information is going to be provided to those who made submissions to this piece of work? Is it all finally coming together or just becoming more disjointed?
June 10th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
I attended the Perth seminar (yay) and had to chuckle at off-hand remarks about how Conroy wanted that day to be known as “Change your password” day..
I looked around the room for the “In case of emergency” shotgun case!
June 11th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
If it wasn’t serious it would be comical but you really couldn’t make some of this sh*t up! e.g; the password video. Am still laughing on that one….the Australian tour and as Christian mentioned, “change your password” day. It’s sad on so many levels….not the least being that (and lucky in a way), so few people know this is happening and there actually is a site – i.e; the Stay Smart Online thing. 2009?
June 11th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
One wonders what oversight is there. All this seems so amateurish and demonstrates embarrassingly how poor our expertise and focus on this at the government layer is. Single projects here or there such as the cnva work, (though a major failure) do not make a strategy. If this is the best we have, we should be worried.
June 15th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Well this was the other thing about the session that was confusing. There was someone from the WAScamNet, who also operate a mailing list. The presenter mentioned that ACCC maintain a similar thing, then there’s the StaySmartOnline thing. It’s like everyone wants to educate the masses, but then we all go off and do it in different isolated ways.
But we knew that already: http://www.beastorbuddha.com/2009/05/09/australian-government-approach-and-position-on-it-information-economy-security/
June 15th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
So the week is over. Can someone point me to where I can see the outcomes from the week?
June 17th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Insert obligatory /dev/null joke here (?)
June 21st, 2009 at 3:35 am
And nothing really much to add from Sen. Conroy interviewed on Risky Business:
http://risky.biz/netcasts/risky-business/risky-business-112-pollie-wanna-hacker-special-guest-senator-stephen-conroy
June 21st, 2009 at 1:27 pm
@Drazen Drazic, what a waste of 10 minutes of my life that was.
June 21st, 2009 at 6:48 pm
V3ndor,
I’m sure Pat would have drilled him further but I assume there were conditions on the interview. Maybe Pat can confirm if he reads this.
I do disagree with Pat that the filter is not a security issue. eg:
http://beastorbuddha.com/2009/05/04/aussie-press-finally-picks-up-on-security-implications-of-internet-filtering/