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  • Feds release public service ID management plans

    The federal government has moved to set minimum standards across its agencies for checking employees or contractors are who they claim to be and that their qualifications are genuine.

  • NT government reeling as Sasser goes bush

    The Northern Territory government has put its hand up as being among the victims of the Sasser worm, which began spreading across global computer networks Saturday.

  • Aust Defence idle on network security gaps

    The Department of Defence is struggling to find and close security gaps in its network that allowed 25 of its civilian staff to trade pornographic material via email undetected.

  • NT government forges ahead on VoIP

    The Northern Territory (NT) government is targeting user support and governance as critical to the success of a looming territory-wide Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) rollout.

  • Centrelink ready for government smartcard, vendor claims

    Just weeks would be needed for Centrelink's identity management rollout to be streamlined to handle a proposed mass introduction of smartcards to either citizens or public servants, according to a vendor involved in the project.

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  • Degradation of independence

    Technology is a catalyst for business change, but that change doesn't always sit well with departments that have their own sovereignty to look after. David Braue asks whether IT can be centralised and distributed at the same time.

  • Anti-Linux response: The FUD-slinging continues

    Con Zymaris, CEO of Australian IT services company CyberSource, attempts to set the record straight over recent industry comments that his company is muddying the waters when it comes to determining the true cost of corporate open source deployment.

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