Auditor Finds ‘Critical Shortcomings’ in Australian Cyber Security

A man types on a computer keyboard in Warsaw on Feb. 28, 2013. Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom have expressed serious concern over a group acting on behalf of the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) that is stealing commercial intellectual property in a malicious global hacking campaign, widely known as Cloud Hopper, as of Dec. 21, 2018. Kacper Pempel/Reuters

The federal government’s management of cyber security continues to be poorly managed, a new report says.

Auditor-General Grant Hehir said in his 2022/23 annual report there were “ongoing deficiencies in cyber security environments and poor governance over entity cyber security risks”.