The federal government’s 2023-2030 Australian cyber security technique has actually up until now set the federal government back simply over $2.8 million, without any technique yet to reveal for it.
In a response to a concern placed on notification by senator James Paterson to senate quotes in Might, the Department of House Affairs stated that in addition to its staffing expense, the department has actually invested $2.8 million on technique advancement to date.
The huge winner at the same time is KPMG, which has actually banked practically $2.4 million for “establishing rundowns and background material, stakeholder engagement and minutes for market conferences, in addition to task management for the technique”.
CyberCX was paid $170,500 for “a report on evaluating techniques to worldwide danger
sharing and danger stopping”, while supplying specialist legal recommendations has actually deserved simply over $63,000 to Clyde and Co.
The present federal government reset the cyber security technique advancement procedure in August 2022, and in December 2022 provided a conversation paper developed to notify the brand-new technique.
The department has actually not yet released submissions to the conversation paper, although some have actually been separately released ahead of time.
In its response to senator Paterson, House Affairs included that it can not supply any breakdown of the “predicted expense of efforts” under the technique, due to the fact that the technique “stays to be thought about by federal government”.