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The Department of Defence announced that upgrades to its financial management system are underway with the Resource and Output Management and Accounting Network going live on Wednesday.
Australian Defence Force officials have issued a roadmap for the network-centric warfare (NCW) vision that will link its command and control, sensor and engagement grid networks by 2020.
A consortium comprising US-based defence specialist General Dynamics, Australian Defence Industries and Tenix has won preferred tenderer status to provide the nation's armed forces with the first stage of a next-generation digital communications network.
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It was inevitable that micro-blogging service Twitter would become infested with malware, according to a number of high-profile Australian users of the service.
Just a few days after the Australia Connected program was launched Communications Minister Helen Coonan was selling the initiative to the TV talk shows.
How do four of Australia's largest government agencies protect their networks from attackers? To find out, ZDNet.com.au went to Canberra and spoke to the CIOs of Customs, Centrelink, Defence and the Australian Tax Office.
Australian Department of Defence CIO Greg Farr spoke to ZDNet.com.au about how the organisation's networks are kept secure and why virtualisation and green issues are high on the agenda.
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Australian Department of Defence CIO Greg Farr spoke to ZDNet.com.au about how the organisation's networks are kept secure and why virtualisation and green issues are high on the agenda.
Davis Thomason, senior director of technical services at Sourcefire, describes Enterprise Threat Management (ETM), which combines IPS, vulnerability assessments, network behaviour analysis and network admission control, to create a pro-active defence system.
Mark Sunner, chief security analyst at Messagelabs, said the company's latest research indicates that Australian spam levels are well below the global average. The bad news is that social networking sites, such as MySpace, are helping phishers create more targeted attacks.
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