Australia’s government has proposed giving itself the power to take over private enterprises’ response to cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure.
A new Consultation Paper titled Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Systems of National Significance [PDF] notes that critical infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber attack, that such attacks are already happening and that the nation needs a plan so that if something nasty happens – like a hack taking out energy suppliers - other industries don;t go down like dominoes.
The government’s plan is mostly to define more industries as critical infrastructure and make them “legally obliged to manage risks that may impact business continuity and Australia’s economy, security and sovereignty”. The government proposes to develop baselines that critical industries can use to help them meet their obligations.
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