Dwelling Affairs has arrange a brand new cyber safety response coordination unit (CSRCU) to coordinate “consequence administration actions for nationally important cyber safety incidents.”
The CSRCU sits underneath the Cyber and Infrastructure Safety Heart (CISC) and was established on December 1 after an inside assessment of the division’s dealing with of the Optus and Medibank information breaches.
Components of the federal government have faced questions about the nature of their response to the Optus breachspecifically.
The response triggered a number of opinions, together with a government-level review led by Mike Mrdak – a former secretary of the division of communications – that was disclosed in February.
Nonetheless, it has additionally now emerged that Dwelling Affairs itself ready its personal inside “preliminary evaluation on classes discovered” doc in relation to the Optus incident on September 22 final 12 months.
It went on to develop the ‘classes discovered’ course of to cowl the response to the Medibank incident as effectively, and mentioned these had been “built-in” into the CSRCU, which it described as a “new non-regulatory coordination perform”.
“The CSRCU coordinates consequence administration actions for nationally important cyber safety incidents,” the division mentioned.
“The unit works alongside Commonwealth companies main technical incident responses, legislation enforcement operations, and regulatory actions.
“This strategy was undertaken because the ‘Commonwealth Evaluation of Cyber Safety Preparations‘ by Mr [Mike] Mrdak was on his method trying into each incidents.”
Whereas nonetheless formally into consideration, Dwelling Affairs mentioned the broader Mrdak assessment had additionally resulted in some motion objects for the division.
Dwelling Affairs was coy in regards to the particular modifications it had made, saying solely that it had applied some suggestions and been the topic of some “directives … in relation to cyber safety coverage possession, sharing, output, precedence [and] supply”.
The division additionally supplied direct enter into the Mrdak assessment.
