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• Govt cyber chief Alastair MacGibbon makes exit

  Alastair MacGibbon has resigned from his role as the government’s most senior cyber security advisor.

• PwC delivers 2021 Census services on AWS

  ​PwC Australia has been selected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to deliver key 2021 Census services.

• IBM awarded $13.7M Govt mainframe deal

  ​IBM has won a $13.7 million deal from the Department of Human Services for the provision of mainframe storage infrastructure.

• Revenue tumble tops tough year for IBM Australia

  ​IBM Australia reported a $31 million fall in revenue for the year ending December 2016, while seeing a $36.5 million tumble in net profit for the period.

• IBM and Nextgen Networks locked in legal battle over Census debacle

  ​IBM has launched legal action against Nextgen Networks and Vocus over the companies’ roles in the troubled 2016 eCensus portal project.

• ​Regaining trust after a digital government failure

  Who could forget #censusfail last year? After a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and concerns over potential loss of data during the 2016 Census, the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Census site was shut down for days. Once it was eventually restored on 11 August 2016, it was successfully used by millions of Australians to submit their census data.

• ​Opinion: Has the ABS learnt anything from its e-Census DDoS debacle?

  The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) suffered a humiliating failure of its systems last August, which was largely attributed to its inability to manage security and operational risk of a key business system.

• Why you're not investing enough in IT security

  The minute you outsource responsibility or governance of information security to a third party, you tie a noose around your neck and hand the end of the rope to a vendor.​

• Opinion: Are the ATO and Census failures just the tip of the iceberg?

  There is no point putting “lipstick on a pig” by implementing online transactional systems using tired backend infrastructure, says Ian Brightwell.

• ​How to assess your organisation’s cyber security resilience

  High profile cyber attacks over the past 12 months – Census and the Bureau of Meteorology are two examples – have company directors scrambling to tighten up their IT security strategies.

• Census inquiry questions IBM's client relationship

  ​The government has questioned the close relationship between the ABS and IBM over the August shutdown of the 2016 Census online portal.

• IBM questions internal processes after Census outage

  IBM has questioned its own dealings with an internet service provider and its upstream partner in its handling of the troubled 2016 Census project.

• Census failure report release now down to PM, says his cyber adviser

  ​The decision to release the long-awaited review of the census failure now sits with the prime minister, says his special adviser on cyber security.

• ​CPSU defends ABS over Census debacle

  The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has defended Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) staff who worked on the 2016 Census saying they displayed a high level of professionalism “under difficult circumstances and significant funding pressures.”

• Heads roll at IBM for Census debacle, say reports

  ​Two senior IBM staff have "resigned with immediate effect" following the Census debacle, according to reports.