[LINK] 'Public-Private cybersecurity centres'

[Roger Clarke]

[The cybersecurity field really is pretty farcical.]

Public-Private cybersecurity centres
Allie Coyne
itNews
Oct 26 2016
http://www.itnews.com.au/news/govt-defends-against-criticism-of-cyber-centres-439995

...
"It came back to basic cyber security hygiene. One idea was to focus all our effort on one thing - like one of the ASD's top four strategies to mitigate targeted cyber intrusions - and say everyone in Australia should be [compliant with one] by a certain time," a source who attended the meeting said.
...

[The DSD/ASD's ISM identifies maybe 100 to 200 threats.

[DSD started with 35 strategies:
http://asd.gov.au/infosec/mitigationstrategies.htm
http://asd.gov.au/infosec/top-mitigations/mitigations-2014-table.htm

[When they couldn't get any traction with that, they tried 4:
http://asd.gov.au/publications/protect/top_4_mitigations.htm

[That's too hard for agencies and corporations, so we're down to 1 now!


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