Thu, 02 Oct
|Social Cyber Zoom
Cyber Catastrophe: Australia needs a National Assessment
Two of Australia's leading researchers on cyber policy and emergency management make the case for a national assessment of the country's readiness for a cyber catastrophe. A Webinar
Time & Location
02 Oct 2025, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm AEST
Social Cyber Zoom
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On 1 June 2025. the Australian government made a major change to its planning for national cyber emergencies by introducing a new contingency of "nationally catastrophic cyber incident". Dr Gary Waters and Professor Greg Austin have called on the government to follow up on what that means in practice. The ideas are laid out in a new paper released by the Social Cyber Institute.
“Australian cyber emergency policy reform is moving at a fast pace with key government statements in June from the National Office of Cyber Security and the Chief of the Defence Force”, said report co-author Dr Gary Waters. “The new category of nationally catastrophic cyber emergency now needs to be accompanied by detailed and comprehensive preparedness planning based on lessons from the inquiry into the Covid pandemic”.
“We would expect the government to produce in the near future further analysis of what these preparedness plans might…