Ninety per cent of Victorian government agencies were targeted in cyberattacks last year, exposing critical services to serious disruption, a new report shows.
went down in December last year in a cyberattack that forced firefighters to rely on radios and mobile phones when responding to emergencies. The attack also exposed personal staff information.
The government considers cybersecurity among the top 10 risks for the state. But there were 617,000 workers – 94 per cent of staff at the agencies examined – who did not use multifactor authentication. The report, published on Wednesday, looked at agencies including government departments, a local council, a water authority and a health service.
“Four agencies give users the lowest possible access they need to do a task, which is technically known as least-privilege access.”The report recommended the public sector address cybersecurity risks in a co-ordinated way.“Agencies do not always have the resources to establish cybersecurity teams with up-to-date knowledge and skills. But they could benefit from a whole-of-government approach to implement these controls to improve their cybersecurity,” the report said.
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