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Macquarie Government becomes first ASX-listed company to join NSW Cloud Panel
The Panel is for consumption of cloud and associated services by NSW Government agencies and other eligible non-government bodies . It aims to drive greater value for buyers by establishing a commercial offer based on whole-of-government volume .
It incorporates services such as IaaS ( Infrastructure-as-a-Service ), including storage , network and security , and Secure Internet Gateway ( SIG ); as well as PaaS ( Platform-as-a-Service ), including cloud training and cloud migration . The agreement will make it easier for state agencies to access Macquarie ’ s sovereign cyber expertise and secure cloud , network and data center services . This will include the company ’ s Sovereign Cybersecurity Center of Excellence ( CSCOE ), which is being built in its Macquarie Park Data Center Campus .
Aidan Tudehope , Managing Director , Macquarie Government
Macquarie Government , part of Macquarie Telecom Group , has signed a whole-of-government agreement with the New South Wales Government , joining its Cloud Purchasing Arrangement (‘ Panel ’), becoming the first sovereign-at-scale and listed Australian company to do so .
Aidan Tudehope , Managing Director , Macquarie Government , said : “ NSW is fast becoming a world leader in cloud and cybersecurity , and we are proud to be providing government agencies with these services for more than 20 years . This is a huge step in that journey , but it ’ s more than that . It illustrates the range of cloud capabilities sovereign Australian companies can now provide to achieve wholeof-government agreements , which have typically been afforded to multinational providers .”
Gartner predicts 30 % of critical infrastructure organizations will experience breach by 2025
By 2025 , 30 % of critical infrastructure organizations will experience a security breach that will result in the halting of an operations system or mission-critical cyberphysical system , according to Gartner .
Critical infrastructure security has become a primary concern for governments around the world , with the US , UK , EU , Canada and Australia each identifying sectors deemed ‘ critical infrastructure ’, for example , communications , transport , energy , water , healthcare and public facilities .
Director at Gartner . “ They are now making moves to mandate more security controls for the systems that underpin these assets .”
A Gartner survey showed that 38 % of respondents expected to increase spending on operational technology ( OT ) security by between 5 % and 10 % in 2021 , with another 8 % of respondents predicting an increase of above 10 %.
However , this may not be enough to counter underinvestment in this area over many years , according to Gartner .
“ Besides the need to catch up , there is a growing number of increasingly sophisticated threats ,” Contu said . “ Owners and operators of critical infrastructure are also struggling to prepare for the coming increased oversight .”
In some countries , critical infrastructure is state-owned , while in others , like the US , private industry owns and operates a much larger portion of it .
“ Governments in many countries are now realizing their national critical infrastructure has been an undeclared battlefield for decades ,” said Ruggero Contu , Research
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