Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 07 July 2009 15:52
Business IT -
Security
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The Australian Computer Society has warned that cyber crime poses a major threat to the progress of Australia’s digital economy, as it calls on the federal government to consider developing vendor agreements & investing in R&D in security technologies.
The ACS wants these issues to be looked at by
the government as part of the current parliamentary inquiry into cyber
crime, with chairman Kumar Parakala suggesting that an increase in
cyber crime has been the “unfortunate by-product of high speed, always
on, internet services.”
“It is also a major impediment to our further growth in this area, and
requires a corresponding investment by Government and commercial
interests to help Australians increase and maintain confidence in
online transactions.”
According to Parakala the outbreak of increasingly sophisticated online
phishing attacks on banking and Australian Taxation Office customers in
recent months has the potential to turn Australians away from online
commerce.
“This would be an enormous backwards step, and we need to identify
solutions to ensure our momentum in the digital area is maintained.”
Parakala cited a recent CSO report that Australia has comparatively
high rates of cyber crime and that Australians are now more likely to
experience cyber crime than burglary, assault or robbery.
“The phenomenal developments in technology, implementation of
ultra-fast broadband the introduction of IPv6 are going to facilitate a
quantum acceleration in Australia’s (and the global) digital economy.
The digital economy has the potential to be Australia’s new engine
room, however research has shown that security is the primary barrier
for SMEs moving to online business models.”
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