Australia's recent data breaches, while damaging, are likely to be eclipsed by more disruptive cyberattacks on critical infrastructure like hospitals and airlines, warns Ciaran Martin, the former head of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.
Australia ’s recent spate of data breaches has been damaging but will likely pale in comparison to more disruptive attacks on the nation’s hospitals and airlines, according to a warning from the UK’s former top cybersecurity tsar.
In June, more than 1000 planned medical operations were postponed due to a cyberattack that impacted London hospitals, with blood tests in south-east London reduced to about 10 per cent of normal capacity. It’s those types of disruptive cyberattacks that Martin says Australia should be concerned about should they hit our shores.
“All of the Five Eyes governments say ‘look, we don’t expect this tomorrow’, but one difference I notice when it comes to Australia is the strategic threat posed by China is felt much more viscerally, and we all hope things don’t escalate into conflict there, but if it does get worse, there’ll be a significant, disruptive cyber element to that.
“He’s an old friend, he was my opposite number in Australia,” Martin said of MacGibbon, who was previously the head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre. “I was initially sceptical, but it was a pretty compelling vision.“With the threat to Australia at the moment, even if the government was able to execute perfectly on everything it wanted, it can’t fix everything, and you need the private sector to step up.
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