Cyber envoy Andrew Charlton wants to end Australia's 'digital chill'
Charlton argues Australia should help forge a global cybersecurity agreement, similar to how the G20 was created in response to the Global Financial Crisis.
Australia’s envoy for cybersecurity, Andrew Charlton, has warned that a “digital chill” is harming the nation’s productivity, as businesses grow increasingly wary of the online world.
In an exclusive interview with Capital Brief, Charlton said the world needed a global consensus on the cyber threat — similar to how the G20 was created in response to the Global Financial Crisis, or how the Bretton Woods agreement was forged in the wake of World War II.
Charlton described the cybersecurity challenge as “confronting", calling the use of the internet by criminals the biggest evolution in crime since the invention of the firearm.
“There is a cyber incident in Australia every six minutes that's reported, and millions more go unreported. By some measures, half of all Australian businesses are the subject of a cyber incident every year,” Charlton said.
