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VIRTUALISATION Cybercrime threatens digital economy progress, warns ACS
VIRTUALISATION Cybercrime threatens digital economy progress, warns ACS | Cybercrime threatens digital economy progress, warns ACS |
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| by Peter Dinham | |
| Tuesday, 07 July 2009 | |
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“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.” CONTINUED page 2 |
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