Stories by Rohan Pearce

The government no long has a dedicated cyber security minister, with responsibility for information security policy being the domain of the minister of home affairs.

Huawei says the government has informed the company that it, along with fellow Chinese telecommunications equipment provider ZTE, has been banned from providing 5G technology to Australia's telcos.

Horizon Power technology manager Paul Thomas corruptly exploited his position to have the utility pay Trusted Solutions IT, a company he owned, a report from Western Australia’s Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) has alleged.

Westpac’s group chief information officer, Dave Curran, will leave the bank at the end of January next year.

Anthony Castagna, the former executive chairperson of Australian security software firm Nuix, has been sentenced to seven years’ prison over a tax evasion and money laundering scheme.

The former chief information officer of South Australia’s Department of Premier and Cabinet has pleaded guilty to fraud charges.

The World Bank has chosen the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) to be the sole arranger of the first bond globally “to be created, allocated, transferred and managed using blockchain technology.”

Rob Putter has resigned as Roads and Maritime Services’ chief information officer after a little over a year in the role.

Scrutiny by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has revealed that the National Archives and Geoscience Australia are yet to implement key cyber security mitigation strategies mandated by government policy.

Western Australia’s Office of the Government Chief Information Officer will officially cease operations at the end of June. The OGCIO is being transformed into the Office of Digital Government, which will be a discrete business unit sitting within the Department of the Premier and Cabinet.

Australian software as a service provider PageUp has released details of a possible data breach that took place late last month.

Aurora Energy’s service and delivery operations manager has been tapped to lead IT at the Tasmanian utility.

Barclays’ head of information security Matt Mansour will join QBE as the insurance group’s global chief information officer.

The growth of “confidential computing” approaches will help clear away any “last mile barriers” for enterprises that are concerned about processing highly sensitive data in the cloud, Microsoft Azure chief technology officer Mark Russinovich believes.

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s chief information officer, Sarv Girn, will join MLC Life Insurance in May.