With one eye on the growing number of cybersecurity threats and the other on budgetary constraints, Australia’s public-sector organisations are grappling with how best to secure their IT infrastructures, writes Michael Bovalino.
The challenge is made more acute by a requirement often faced to lock in or predict expenditure for cybersecurity programs of work for periods of between three and five years. This is to align spending with everything from government funding cycles to elections and changes of government.