The federal government has introduced new rules requiring 100 of its largest agencies to appoint chief information security officers, boosting cyber security leadership in Canberra at a time of escalating risk. The mandate follows years of indifference to cybersecurity controls in government, with the most recent assessment of Commonwealth cyber posture showing 90 per cent…

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