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Peter Lawrence, the Australian Department of Defence’s new chief information officer, is seeking to leverage big data as part of a $1.9 billion saving drive with its technology reform programme, according to IT Pro. Read more

What is Russia’s role in cyberspace? Is it being overstated or underrated? Defence IQ talks with Keir Giles, the Director of the Conflict Studies Research Centre about it. Watch this video interview to find out whether he thinks nations have cause to be concerned or encouraged. Read more

Pieter De Crem, Minister of Defence for Belgium, recently spoke at the Cyber Defence and Network Security conference in London. Here’s that speech in our IQ Cloud format (where we take the most-used keywords and put them into the Word Cloud generator)… Read more

The Runet—as Russians call their bit of the Internet—is growing by leaps and bounds. As millions connect, Russian politics is moving online, but so is the heavy hand of the Kremlin. Early efforts to suppress online political opposition crashed, so now the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin is squeezing Internet freedom in the name of public safety. Internally, websites publishing “extremist” views risk landing on Moscow’s new Internet blacklist. Externally, Russian diplomats try to convince us that this approach would be better for the entire world. Read more

Jamie Shea, NATO’s Deputy Assistant Secretary General in the Emerging Security Challenges Division, says that “you can’t stop a cyber attack with a cyber attack.” Read more

This is the speech Pieter De Crem, Minister of Defence for Belgium, gave at this week’s Cyber Defence and Network Security conference in London. Read more

United States government officials and international cyber war experts have suggested that Iran was the perpetrator of the August 2012 cyber attack that severely affected the state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco. However current evidence strongly suggests that the Iranian government was not responsible for this devastating cyber attack and neither were Iranian hacker groups. Instead evidence points to an Islamic fundamentalist with anti-American views as the prime perpetrator behind the unnerving and costly cyber attack. Read more

Detica, BAE Systems' cyber security arm, has released it's top 5 predictions for cyber security threats in 2013. Here they are... Read more

The hazards of social media and web 2.0 applications can be broadly categorised into four main areas: data leakage, inbound threats such as malware, compliance and user behaviour. To mitigate the risk to the organisation there are several areas where control must be reintroduced. Read more

The military’s reliance on computers is now so great that a sustained cyber attack from enemy actors could deal a fatal blow to much of its weapons and technology. Entire combat units could be rendered useless. That’s the conclusion of a report by the Commons defence committee. Read more

We asked you to indicate how the government was doing on this issue: Is cybersecurity the area in which the U.S. government is most vulnerable yet has done the least to mitigate the threat? 83% agreed, so clearly more can be done... Read more