australia – Noise

2025 H1 IRAP report is now available on AWS Artifact for Australian customers

Patrick Chang — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:37:58 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce that the latest version of Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) report (2025 H1) is now available through AWS Artifact. An independent Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) certified IRAP assessor completed the IRAP assessment of AWS in September 2025. The new IRAP report includes four additional AWS services that are now assessed at […]

Australia Requires Ransomware Victims to Declare Payments

Bruce Schneier — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:03:34 +0000

A new Australian law requires larger companies to declare any ransomware payments they have made.

2024 H2 IRAP report is now available on AWS Artifact for Australian customers

Patrick Chang — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:57:53 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce that a new Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) report (2024 H2) is now available through AWS Artifact. An independent Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) certified IRAP assessor completed the IRAP assessment of AWS in February 2025. The new IRAP report includes an additional six AWS services that are now assessed at the […]

2024 H1 IRAP report is now available on AWS Artifact for Australian customers

Patrick Chang — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:50:51 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce that a new Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) report (2024 H1) is now available through AWS Artifact. An independent Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) certified IRAP assessor completed the IRAP assessment of AWS in August 2024. The new IRAP report includes an additional seven AWS services that are now assessed at the […]

Introducing the APRA CPS 230 AWS Workbook for Australian financial services customers

Krish De — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:50:11 +0000

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has established the CPS 230 Operational Risk Management standard to verify that regulated entities are resilient to operational risks and disruptions. CPS 230 requires regulated financial entities to effectively manage their operational risks, maintain critical operations during disruptions, and manage the risks associated with service providers. Amazon Web Services […]

Australia Threatens to Force Companies to Break Encryption

Bruce Schneier — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 11:03:31 +0000

In 2018, Australia passed the Assistance and Access Act, which—among other things—gave the government the power to force companies to break their own encryption.

The Assistance and Access Act includes key components that outline investigatory powers between government and industry. These components include:

Technical Assistance Requests (TARs): TARs are voluntary requests for assistance accessing encrypted data from law enforcement to teleco and technology companies. Companies are not legally obligated to comply with a TAR but law enforcement sends requests to solicit cooperation. ...

Heeding the call to support Australia’s most at-risk entities

Carly Ramsey — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:40 +0000

Heeding the call for industry to step up support of Australia's most at-risk entities, Cloudflare and CI-ISAC are teaming up to help protect Australia’s General Practitioner clinics

Australia’s cybersecurity strategy is here and Cloudflare is all in

Carly Ramsey http://blog.cloudflare.com/author/carly/ — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 23:00:21 +0000

In support of the Australian Cyber Security Strategy 2023-2030 (The Strategy), released on November 22, 2023, we want to share how we can help empower Australian organizations and individuals to become more secure

Updated Essential Eight guidance for Australian customers

James Kingsmill — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 20:32:49 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce the release of AWS Prescriptive Guidance on Reaching Essential Eight Maturity on AWS. We designed this guidance to help customers streamline and accelerate their security compliance obligations under the Essential Eight framework of the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC). What is the Essential Eight? The Essential Eight is […]

2023 H1 IRAP report is now available on AWS Artifact for Australian customers

Patrick Chang — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 13:47:37 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce that a new Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) report (2023 H1) is now available through AWS Artifact. An independent Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) certified IRAP assessor completed the IRAP assessment of AWS in August 2023. The new IRAP report includes an additional six AWS services, as well as the new AWS […]

Celebrating Australia’s Privacy Awareness Week 2023

Emily Hancock — Mon, 01 May 2023 18:48:41 +0000

Cloudflare is proud to be an official sponsor of the Australian Privacy Awareness Week 2023, and we’re excited to play a role in building and using privacy and security technologies to help our customers keep their sensitive information private – technologies that form the new “privacy basics”

Killnet and AnonymousSudan DDoS attack Australian university websites, and threaten more attacks — here’s what to do about it

Patrick R. Donahue — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:10:13 +0000

Over the past 24 hours, Cloudflare has observed HTTP DDoS attacks targeting university websites in Australia. Universities were the first of several groups publicly targeted by the pro-Russian hacker group Killnet and their affiliate AnonymousSudan, as revealed in a recent Telegram post

2022 H2 IRAP report is now available on AWS Artifact for Australian customers

Patrick Chang — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 21:42:07 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce that a new Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) report (2022 H2) is now available through AWS Artifact. An independent Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) certified IRAP assessor completed the IRAP assessment of AWS in December 2022. The new IRAP report includes an additional six AWS services, as well as the […]

Australia Increases Fines for Massive Data Breaches

Bruce Schneier — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 11:13:48 +0000

After suffering two large, and embarrassing, data breaches in recent weeks, the Australian government increased the fine for serious data breaches from $2.2 million to a minimum of $50 million. (That’s $50 million AUD, or $32 million USD.) This i...

2022 H1 IRAP report is now available on AWS Artifact

Matt Brunker — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 22:09:23 +0000

We’re excited to announce that a new Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) report is now available on AWS Artifact. Amazon Web Services (AWS) successfully completed an IRAP assessment in May 2022 by an independent ASD (Australian Signals Directorate) certified IRAP assessor. The new IRAP report includes an additional nine AWS services that are now […]

New IRAP full assessment report is now available on AWS Artifact for Australian customers

Clara Lim — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 16:34:22 +0000

We are excited to announce that a new Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) report is now available on AWS Artifact, after a successful full assessment completed in December 2021 by an independent ASD (Australian Signals Directorate) certified IRAP assessor. The new IRAP report includes reassessment of the existing 111 services which are already in […]

Announcing the AWS Security and Privacy Knowledge Hub for Australia and New Zealand

Phil Rodrigues — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 05:23:28 +0000

Cloud technology provides organizations across Australia and New Zealand with the flexibility to adapt quickly and scale their digital presences up or down in response to consumer demand. In 2021 and beyond, we expect to see cloud adoption continue to accelerate as organizations of all sizes realize the agility, operational, and financial benefits of moving […]

New AWS Workbook for Australian energy sector customers now available

Julian Busic — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 20:56:34 +0000

I’m pleased to announce the Amazon Web Services (AWS) AESCSF 2019 Workbook, a resource designed to help energy sector customers align with the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)’s Australian Energy Sector Cyber Security Framework (AESCSF) 2019. The workbook helps energy sector customers to: Conduct due diligence on the AWS control environment, by mapping the AESCSF […]