David Braue
Editor at Large
David Braue is an award-winning technology journalist who covers the security and telecommunications industry in Australia. Follow him on Twitter at @zyzzyvamedia.
Australia’s election officials brace for interference, both foreign and technological
The risk of social-media manipulation exacerbates the fallout from an online-voting disaster.
Anatomy of an Australian ransomware response
Compromise was six months in the making and took three weeks to fix.
Australian financial-services companies fall short of cybersecurity goals
Companies continue targeting supply-chain risk after two years of little improvement in achieving resilience to attacks.
A tale of two breaches: Bunnings and the South Australia government
Minimising data collection limited the data exposure from third-party compromise at one of the victims.
As adversaries watch and wait, Western Sydney Airport is a greenfield cybersecurity opportunity
Australia’s newest airport is building cybersecurity into its core, offering lessons for other infrastructure projects across the country.
Australia is putting cyber at the heart of its new realpolitik as it works to counter China
Data security and infrastructure resilience are enmeshed with Australia’s regional leadership.
Cybersecurity lies at the heart of Australia’s updated Digital Government Strategy
Standards, policies, and new Cyber Hubs lead the rush to be fully digital by 2025.
Competing security priorities are challenging ‘frazzled’ Australian CISOs
Cybersecurity literacy, not technology, is the biggest headache for security leaders.
E-government: Australia experiences the risks while seeking better digital identity methods
Not all government services are handling citizen credentials well even as digital services grow, but Services Australia is working to change that.
Australian firms are confident about withstanding cyberattacks—should they be?
A survey shows breach costs have gone down, but the reasons are unclear. And the cost of customer data lost through supplier breaches is rising.
Government-wide DNS security strengthens Australia’s cyberdefence
AUPDNS helped protect this year’s online Census by blocking requests for known malicious servers.
Cybersecurity breach of Australian banks is ‘inevitable’, Reserve Bank warns
Australia’s financial system is high on the bucket lists of cybercriminals and nation-state actors.
Australia’s Ransomware Action Plan latest salvo in war on cybercriminals
The federal government is ready to name hostile nation-states as it criminalises cyberextortion, mandates ransomware reporting, and tracks cryptocurrency ransoms.
How Jemena is preparing for Australia’s coming critical infrastructure cybersecurity obligations
The transition from voluntary best practice to auditable government requirement may expose gaps in critical infrastructure operators’ risk management.
Australia’s physical-security specialists looking to take on information security
The convergence of physical and information security is pushing CISOs towards new roles and new partnerships.
Poorly educated boards mean less cybersecurity funding for ANZ CISOs
Just a quarter of board members in Australia and New Zealand understand cybersecurity well enough to make appropriate funding decisions, according to a recent survey.
Human errors compromising Australian government data more than cybercriminals
Mistakes caused 74% of government agencies’ reported data breaches, the latest OAIC report shows, even as other industries averaged about 30%.
New Australian laws could force CISOs to decrypt data, let police access accounts
SLAID’s “novel, extraordinary, and intrusive” warrants threaten 10 years’ jail for noncompliance, while FILAB allows for government spying on Australians’ communications.
Security blind spots persist as companies cross-breed security with devops
As devops matures into devsecops, cultural obstacles continue to exert drag.