On 11/08/16 16:16, Roger Clarke wrote:
Census 2016 website incident, August 9 11 August 2016 ...
What worries me is not so much that there was a successful attack on the
ABS system, but the apparent lack of a planned and practiced response
from the relevant government ministers and their staff.
Had this been a more serious attack, such as one on critical
infrastructure threating lives, the poor performance by ministerial
level of government could have been disastrous.
At the senior levels of government there need to be plans in place for
who says what and when. These plans need to be tested in exercises, just
as is done for natural disaster planning, which Australian state and
local governments do well:
http://www.bundaberg.qld.gov.au/news/2016/07/22/training-exercise-tests-local-disaster-response-plans
There is a VET Certificate IV in Public Safety (Leadership), which
includes units of competency on "Manage and evaluate emergency
management exercises" and "Give evidence in a judicial or quasi-judicial
setting": https://training.gov.au/Training/Details/PUA41012
ps: Are we getting the band back together, for the Senate inquiry on
Internet security? ;-)
"... views presented by members of the "Linkers" ... who acted in
concert based around their membership of the link list, a community far
more cohesive than their membership of different (and by nature
competing) advocacy coalitions." Chen (2000, p 194)
Reference
Chen, P. J. (2000). Australia's online censorship regime: the Advocacy
Coalition Framework and governance compared. Retrieved from
https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/11343/38780/65881_00000240_01_AOCR.pdf?sequence=1#page=194
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