Digital land power: the Australian Army’s cyber future (Zoe Hawkins, Liam Nevill, ASPI)

https://www.aspi.org.au/publications/digital-land-power-the-australian-armys-cyber-future

Cyber wrap (Liam Nevill, The Strategist)

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/cyber-wrap-145/

The US–Australia Cyber Dialogue: advancing a secure digital economy (Liam Nevill, The Strategist)

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/advancing-secure-digital-economy/

The US–Australia Cyber Dialogue: fighting cybercrime in the Asia–Pacific (Liam Nevill, Zoe Hawkins, The Strategist)

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/us-australia-cyber-dialogue-fighting-cybercrime-asia-pacific/

The ‘Silver Bullet’ conundrum: naval losses in a world of small fleets (Christopher Cowan, Liam Nevill, The Strategist)

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/silver-bullet-conundrum-naval-losses-world-small-fleets/

Cyber wrap (Liam Nevill, The Strategist)

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/cyber-wrap-139/

Cyber Maturity 2016 (Tobias Feakin, Jessica Woodall, Liam Nevill, Zoe Hawkins, ASPI)

https://www.aspi.org.au/publications/cyber-maturity-2016

Cyber wrap (Liam Nevill, The Strategist)

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/cyber-wrap-135/

Cyber wrap (Liam Nevill, The Strategist)

Yesterday’s appointment of Malcolm Turnbull’s new ministry has followed through with the commitment made in last year’s Cyber Security Strategy to create a ministerial position for cyber security. Dan Tehan from Victoria has added Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Cyber Security, in addition to his other roles as Minister for Defence Personnel, Minister for Veteran’s Affairs and Minister assisting the Prime Minister for the centenary of ANZAC.

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/cyber-wrap-128/

Cyber wrap (Liam Nevill, ASPI The Strategist)

Last Wednesday the European Parliament approved the new European Union Network and Information Security directive, which applies common cybersecurity and reporting obligations for operators of essential services, such as energy, transport, health finance and water utilities. Other online services such as cloud services and retailers will also have to implement new measures under the directive.

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/cyber-wrap-127/

Cyber wrap (Liam Nevill, ASPI The Strategist)

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/cyber-wrap-125/

National cyber budgets: same, same but different (Zoe Hawkins, Liam Nevill, ASPI The Strategist)

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/national-cyber-budgets-different/

Agenda for Change 2016: cybersecurity (Tobias Feakin, Jessica Woodall, Liam Nevill, Zoe Hawkins, ASPI The Strategist)

Regardless of their political stripes, the next Australian government has a solid foundation from which to approach cyber policy, comprised of the new Australian Cyber Security Strategy, the National Innovation and Science Agenda and 2016 Defence White Paper. Alongside the release of the Strategy was the announcement of a four-year $230 million investment to enhance Australian cybersecurity capabilities and launch new cyber initiatives. The Australian government hasn’t invested in this area since 2009, so it’s well overdue

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/agenda-change-cybersecurity/

Countering extremist narratives online: competing or cooperating? (Clare Murphy, Liam Nevill, ASPI The Strategist)

The current conflict in the Middle East isn’t the first in which online communication tools—social media platforms, private messaging apps and alike—have played a role. But the Islamic State’s ability to engage people online is notably complex in its scope and scale, with a decentralised media machine producing content on a scale that rivals mainstream content providers. While IS won’t be defeated online, taking it on in cyberspace is necessary to blunt the effectiveness of its ability to build support and attract recruits using online tools

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/countering-extremist-narratives-online-competing-cooperating/

Cyber wrap (Liam Nevill, ASPI The Strategist)

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/cyber-wrap-121/

Thinking deeper about Australia’s offensive cyber capability (Liam Nevill, ASPI)

At the launch of Australia’s new Cyber Security Strategy last month, the Prime Minister confirmed what many have been guessing for years: Australia possesses offensive cyber capabilities. The announcement, however, provided us with the barest of information about Australia’s offensive cyber capability, and it remains largely unclear how its potential uses have been conceived by government and the national security community. Given the minimal discussion of Defence’s approach to cyber capability in the 2016 Defence White Paper, it’s unlikely that we’ll see this information disclosed anytime soon

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/thinking-deeper-about-australias-offensive-cyber-capability/

Pushing a new model for public–private cyber partnerships (Liam Nevill, ASPI The Strategist)

At the heart of the new Australian Cyber Security Strategy is a new paradigm for public–private engagement on cyber security. Business has been elevated from ‘partner’ to ‘co-leader’ in the new ‘National Cyber Partnership’ to jointly drive implementation of the Strategy. The Strategy quite rightly appreciates the criticality of engaging the combined skills, expertise and capabilities of the public and private sectors to manage cyber threats and reap the economic rewards of connectivity.

http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/pushing-a-new-model-for-public-private-cyber-partnerships/

Cyber wrap (Liam Nevill, ASPI The Strategist)

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Cyber wrap (Liam Nevill, ASPI The Strategist)

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) continues to dominate headlines this week, as theApple v FBI case ends, a Chinese national admits to stealing US military secrets and seven Iranian hackers are indicted. As foreshadowed last week, the DoJ announced on Tuesday that it had found a way to unlock San Bernadino gunman Sayed Farook’s iPhone without Apple’s assistance, and subsequently dropped its case against Apple. We don’t know anything about the company that assisted the FBI to unlock the iPhone or how they did it, and government officials won’t be drawn on whether they will share the information with Apple. Over at the Council on Foreign Relations, Robert Knake points out that since such vulnerabilities are worth big money, it’s possible the third party that unlocked the phone may not even tell the FBI how they did it, let alone Apple—unless some cash is coughed up.

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