Stories by: Sue Bushell

A three-dimensional view of risk lets organizations aggressively identify sources of IT-business misalignment and ruthlessly move to eliminate them

Researchers at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) are exploring the feasibility of providing an Intelligent Listener capability for the planned collocated Defence Headquarters, after successfully experimenting with speech and language technology.

While the Australian Government pushes ahead with its efforts to develop biometric technology to combat identity fraud at Australia's borders, doubts remain about the practicability of the technology.

Steadfast Group CEO Dick Lord — a member of the US Department of Energy Office of Electric Transmission and Distribution Blackout Forum — says a simple engineering error, a software malfunction and a communication failure combined to create the largest blackout the first world has ever seen.

The Clerk of the Senate, Harry Evans, says laws concerning search and seizures may need to be adjusted in the wake of controversial raids on the electoral offices of One Nation Senator Len Harris and former Liberal Senator Winston Crane.

Counter-terrorism policy in Australia remains primitive and flawed and the Australian CT environment is at a very dangerous cross-road — with domestic weakness in CT preparedness and experience, and a fast growing, well funded, and motivated external terrorist threat.

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New Zealand continues to outpace Australia as one of the world’s most “globalized” countries after its government enacted strong legal protections for online transactions, giving it the second-highest number of secure servers per capita in the world.

There's a common thread that runs through the 1984 Bhopal chemical factory disaster, the rogue trading of Nick Leeson a year later, the collapses of Ansett in 2001 and HIH in 2002, and the mass recall that recently engulfed Pan Pharmaceuticals.

It is not just pieces of paper but even seemingly robust corporate reputations that can be shredded when organisations go in for ill-considered destruction of electronic documents.

With disturbing revelations coming out of the Bali bombing trials about the existence of cells of the regional Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiah in Australia, BearingPoint thinks it can offer intelligence agencies technology that can help track such cells down.