On 18/11/15 10:41, Roger Clarke wrote: > ...presumably Tobias Freakin ...
That is, I assume, Dr Tobias Feakin from ASPI (lets not make jokes about people's names): https://www.aspi.org.au/research/find-an-expert/tobias-feakin His "emerging agenda for cybersecurity", with Jennings looks reasonable: http://mercury.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/ISN/167768/ipublicationdocument_singledocument/55a476de-33d3-4edb-8666-1dc057befda5/en/SR51_agenda_cybersecurity.pdf > Turnbull might just demand of his lazy, hands-off bureaucrats that > they roll their sleeves up and actually do something. ... As a former bureaucrat, I think that is a bit harsh. You try writing a policy which takes into account multiple mutually contradictory approaches of different agencies and conflicting political agendas of competing ministers and see how easy it is. Also it is not the job of the bureaucrats to actually *do* anything: their job is to write policy for others, in operational agencies and the private sector, to do things. In terms of what to do, I suggest an easy first step is to have people from the security agencies, government and private sectors jointly trained in cyber-security. They would then know what to do and who to call on. That should be an uncontroversial proposal, which takes a minimal amount of money. It would provide plenty of photo opportunities for ministers to open training centers and hand out certificates to graduates. -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
