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French company Naval Group is trying to keep secret the original price it quoted for Australia’s future submarine project, which is purported to cost around $90 billion.
The Defence Department has confirmed it is paying Naval Group’s legal bills to help conceal its original price, a move that South Australian Senator Rex Patrick has described as “outrageous”. The Australian Information Commissioner, Angelene Falk, also last year directed the Defence Department to release Naval Group’s original bid details.
The Defence Department is currently challenging that directive in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, and Naval Group has joined those proceedings.
Cyber education alone will not stop Australia s cyber attacks Cyber education alone will not stop Australia s cyber attacks
Unisys Gergana Winzer calls on wider cyber security industry to come together in helping Australia s weakest links fend off breaches
Gergana Winzer (Unisys) Credit: Gergana Winzer
Last month, the Australian Information Commissioner Angelene Falk publicly bemoaned the “human factor” for causing a spike in data breaches.
However, according to one of Australia and New Zealand’s leading cyber security players, blaming employees working from home falls short of addressing the whole story.
Speaking to
ARN, Gergana Winzer, industry director cyber security for Unisys Asia Pacific, said the region’s weakest links are small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – which are in turn the most underserved by both governments and the cyber industry as a whole.