Australia puts digital frontier at heart of security strategy

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/23/australia_cyber_security_centre/

By Simon Rockman
The Register
23rd January 2013

Australia is tooling up for a “long, persistent fight” online, and believes 
digital combat will be as important to the nation’s future security as 
involvements in Iraq and Afghanistan were in the last decade.

No less a figure that Prime Minister Julia Gillard expressed that opinion today 
in a speech billed as a landmark security policy pronouncement that had as its 
premise the assertion that “The 9/11 decade is ending and a new one is taking 
its place.”

To ready the nation for coming online battles, Gillard said Australia will 
combine the infosec functions of several agencies – the Attorney-General’s 
Department, the Australian Defence Force, ASIO, the Australian Federal Police 
and the Australian Crime Commission - in a single location to operate as the 
new Australian Cyber Security Centre. The new operation should be up and 
running by year’s end.

Gillard said the Centre will be “a hub for greater collaboration with the 
private sector, State and Territory governments and international partners to 
combat the full breadth of cyber threats” and will mean Australia has “an 
expanded and more agile response capability to deal with all cyber issues — be 
they related to government or industry, crime or security.”

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