UNSW Institute for Cyber Security

There are many significant expectations of modern company directors.

UNSW Canberra and Fortem Australia are working together to provide former first responders with new skills and the pathway to a new career.

We spend so much of our time online the internet has become a fabric of our work and social lives. We are connected through our waking hours (and often during our sleep) and for younger people it is all they know.

More resources are needed to address cybercrime, with UNSW Canberra cyber security expert Nigel Phair estimating it costs Australia’s economy about $42 billion a year.

The UNSW Institute for Cyber Security (IFCYBER) hosted the Australian Signals Directorate’s (ASD’s) keynote address by Director-General Rachel Noble this morning.

A cyber security project aimed at detecting disinformation is the recipient of a $520,000 Department of Defence Australian Research Council grant.

In June 2021, the Australian parliament passed a new Bill which gives the eSafety Commissioner - an independent statutory office - new powers to force social media platforms to remove abusive or violent content and block sites that refuse.