Cyber Security: Two Months In Retrospect (Australia) – December 2023/January 2024

Bumper Summer Edition

Firstly, a happy new year to you all. We hope you had a restful break. As you may have expected, our cyber adversaries did not take a summer holiday, so we have collated the key cyber media reports and industry news (for both December and January) in one place, so you don't have to.

Summary of the “months in retrospect”:

1. Hot on the heels of the Cyber Security Strategy (released in November), the Government published the 2023 – 2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy: Legislative Reforms, Consultation Paper. Submissions close on 1 March, so best to get cracking if you want to make a submission.
2. There have been some interesting developments in the sanctions space. Various governments (including our own) have specifically identified and sanctioned one of the alleged perpetrators of the Medibank cyber incident. It's great to see progress on this front, but we suspect it will have limited impact on the cybercrime threat landscape.