The OG of Australian tech policy fears cybersecurity 'fatigue' is setting in
Australia’s former top tech chief has warned corporate boards are becoming complacent about cyber risks, even as attacks and data breaches continue to rise.
“What are we going to say to the Royal Commission?”. This was the question Paul Twomey posed in the late 1990s to convince federal department secretaries to care about cybersecurity, a relatively obscure threat at the time.
Now, the former National Office for the Information Economy CEO is targeting “complacent” corporations, which he says are still not paying enough attention to cyber risks.
“I'm not going to say they're blasé about cyber security, because they hear a lot about it, but I don’t think they really appreciate what it is to be the target of a determined group who have decided they're going to find different ways to get inside,” Twomey tells Capital Brief.
Twoney, who has held several senior management roles in the technology industry, including as the former head of the now-defunct office for coordinating federal and state level responses to information technologies has joined the board of the Critical Infrastructure Sharing & Analysis Centre (CI-ISAC).
