by Daniel Croft
Home Affairs and Cyber Security Minister Clare O’Neil has announced that the government will be launching a range of exercises designed to combat the increasing number of cyber attacks targeting critical infrastructure.
Minister O’Neil warned that Australia must prepare for a “dystopian future” in which threat actors and organisations will hold entire digitally connected cities to ransom.
“[A future where] our interconnected cities are held hostage through interference in everything from traffic lights to surgery schedules,” she said in a speech at Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Sydney Dialogue yesterday (April 4).
In response, the government has unveiled a series of exercises that will protect critical infrastructure, which in future may be targeted by cyber attacks using quantum decryption.
“This exercise series will build muscle memory in how to deal with a cyber attack and importantly cover the types of incidents we have not yet experienced on a national scale such as a lock-up of critical infrastructure or integrity attacks on critical data,” said Minister O’Neil.
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