Stop tinkering and get serious about cybersecurity reform

Stop tinkering and get serious about cybersecurity reform
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Peter Griffin
The government’s plan to reorganise key agencies offering frontline help to businesses and consumers facing a rising tide of hacking attacks and online scams obscures a bigger problem – we don’t have a coherent cybersecurity strategy.The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) minister Andrew Little confirmed to the Herald this week that cabinet was considering moving the Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert NZ), currently a business unit of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), into the Nation...

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