Federal cyber security advocacy agency AustCyber has handed out millions of dollars to Australian companies to help fund their cyber security projects.
Minister for Industry, Science and technology Karen Andrews announced that 17 projects had been funded as part of the second round of the AustCyber Projects Fund. Only 13 projects where announced, with the remaining four expected to be made public shortly.
Projects receive funding from a consortium of industry members, which AustCyber partially matches. AustCyber will also offer additional funding for marketing successful projects.
Among the funding recipients includes Airlock Digital, which received a combined $1.3 million to deliver commoditised application whitelisting to managed service providers and smaller businesses, an extension of its existing enterprise product.
Alpha Beta scored $1.2 million to develop an interactive heat map for demand and supply of cyber security jobs in states and metro areas.
Canberra-based Tenable partner Penten Services nabbed funding for two projects. The first is worth $3 million to provide fly-away kits to a pilot group of regional SMEs and academia so they can access their classified IT network on a scalable, multi-tenant service.
The other is a joint project with WorldStack and TSS Cyber that received $499,000 to develop a prototype that addresses the challenge of data breach detection and take it to market.
Other funded projects include:
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