Cyber security

This study undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the fiscal consequences of extreme cybersecurity incidents affecting publicly traded corporations in the 21st century.

n 2019 and 2020, sixteen Australian and international researchers looked closely at the subject of civil defence from the perspective of  cyber emergencies in Australia, Europe, Israel, Canada and the US.

Here is a presentation from 2018 marking the foundation of the Social Cyber Group and its affiliated Social Cyber Institute in Australia. Both are spin-offs from UNSW Canberra. The key message was this: “Cyber security is now a social science.”

All security outcomes in cyberspace are determined by individual people, whose behaviour is shaped by their social setting, either organisational or cultural. Yet there has been little evidence globally of the necessary adjustment of policy or practice that gives due weight to the social science dimensions. There is a sharp imbalance between investments in technology for security in cyber space as against social science at almost every level

"Cyber espionage is really a normal fact of life but the growth and intensity of China's cybersecurity industry, including its hacking, has taken the world by surprise" ...