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  • 19 Dec 2024
    • Cyber Security
    • Technology

    The big global steps to forge a new relationship between tech and society

    Miah Hammond-Errey
    A lot of global tech-related policy has been implemented or proposed this year, so it’s worth taking stock to capture the developments.
  • 20 Nov 2024
    • Cyber Security
    • Europe

    NATO’s best-laid subsea cable security plans

    Cynthia Mehboob
    The latest suspected attack indicates NATO needs a new cable protection strategy for European waters.
  • 19 Nov 2024
    • Cyber Security
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability
    • Technology

    Tech and AI are changing the climate equation – for the worse

    Miah Hammond-Errey
    If not addressed, the skyrocketing growth of AI and cloud computing will derail emissions commitments.
  • 6 Nov 2024
    • Cyber Security
    • Technology
    • United States

    Where Harris and Trump agree on AI: Beat China

    Miah Hammond-Errey
    But can ethics keep pace with a desire for speed in development?
  • 31 Oct 2024
    • Australia
    • Cyber Security
    • Technology

    This is what elections look like in 2024: Is Australia ready?

    Meg Tapia
    “Deepfakes”, “weaponisation” and “covert campaigns” are surely not the terms that should be most associated with democracy.
  • 22 Oct 2024
    • Australia
    • Cyber Security
    • Technology

    Understanding technology as an ecosystem is the first step to tackling online harms

    Miah Hammond-Errey
    Misinformation and disinformation are not challenges in isolation.
  • 18 Sep 2024
    • Cyber Security
    • Digital Disruption
    • Technology

    What Taylor Swift taught the world on the risks of AI-generated images and elections

    Dymples Leong
    Deepfakes can carry a pernicious cost to electoral integrity, trust in institutions and democratic processes.
  • 11 Sep 2024
    • Australia
    • Cyber Security
    • Technology

    Byte-sized diplomacy: The search for safe AI

    Miah Hammond-Errey
    How can Australia improve public trust in AI and what can Australia contribute to global AI safety efforts?
  • 28 Aug 2024
    • Cyber Security
    • Technology
    • US Elections

    Byte-sized diplomacy: Countering digital foreign interference

    Miah Hammond-Errey
    The danger is back in the spotlight as the US election unfolds. But who is interfering and how can we counter it?
  • 14 Aug 2024
    • China
    • Defence & Security
    • Cyber Security
    • Digital Disruption
    • Technology

    Beijing’s Baltic confession exposes undersea vulnerability

    Cynthia Mehboob
    While China claims a blunder, its ship cutting a pipeline and cable last year leaves transparency questions aplenty.
  • 13 Aug 2024
    • Australia
    • Cyber Security
    • Digital Disruption
    • Technology

    Byte-sized diplomacy: Will governments ever reign in Big Tech?

    Miah Hammond-Errey
    Google took a hit in the courts last week, but the ruling might not be as important as the information revealed in the case.
  • 31 Jul 2024
    • Cyber Security
    • Intelligence and security
    • Technology

    Australia’s big tech defence cloud: Too big to fail?

    Cynthia Mehboob
    Trusting the country’s digital defence capabilities to one company is a potential threat to national security.
  • 3 Jul 2024
    • Australia
    • Cyber Security
    • Digital Disruption
    • Technology

    Byte-sized diplomacy: AI-enabled elections or deepfake democracy?

    Miah Hammond-Errey
    Having an election doesn’t guarantee a democracy, but you cannot have a democracy without an election.
  • 18 Jun 2024
    • Australia
    • Cyber Security
    • Technology

    Byte-sized diplomacy: Should Australia ban TikTok?

    Miah Hammond-Errey
    A new column to help understanding critical tech and national security.
  • 13 Jun 2024
    • Cyber Security
    • Cyber Warfare
    • Technology

    When cyber defence involves attack: Issues for Australia

    Brendan Walker-Munro , Sascha-Dominik Dov Bachmann
    How do Australian businesses and corporations deal with unwanted intruders on their networks? Government needs to offer real remedies.
  • 7 May 2024
    • Australia
    • Cyber Security
    • Intelligence and security
    • Technology

    Quantum of silence

    Brendan Walker-Munro
    Why the secrecy around securing Australia’s quantum research is scary.
  • 11 Apr 2024
    • Asean
    • South China Sea
    • Cyber Security
    • Cyber Warfare
    • Emerging Threats
    • Maritime Security
    • Technology

    ASEAN and the military applications of AI

    Ngô Di Lân
    While artificial intelligence can be used to magnify lethal force, it can also promote regional peace and stability.
  • 5 Apr 2024
    • India
    • Cyber Security
    • Technology
    • United Nations

    Don’t play it by ear: Audio deepfakes in a year of global elections

    Dymples Leong
    From robocalls to voice clones, generative AI is allowing malicious actors to spread misinformation with ease.
  • 13 Nov 2023
    • Australia
    • Cyber Security

    What can – and should – we expect from Australia’s new cyber security strategy?

    Miah Hammond-Errey , Tom Barrett
    International alignment and coordination will be key to countering cyber threats that have no respect for land borders.
  • 28 Aug 2023
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Cyber Security
    • Cyber Warfare
    • Emerging Threats
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • United Nations
    • United States

    Australia and the UN: A new agenda for peace

    Adam Bartley , Charles T. Hunt , Aiden Warren
    Multilateral responses to the threats of new and emerging tech – from AI warfare to bioweapons – are crucial to success.
  • 10 Jul 2023
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Cyber Security
    • Technology
    • United States

    The Quad: Tackling the spider, not cobwebs, in cyberspace

    Ravi Nayyar
    A security pact, but not as we know it. How a commitment to uplift software security will reap benefits for all.
  • 31 Mar 2023
    • Cyber Security

    Australia names and shames in its fight against foreign interference

    Mercedes Page
    Publicly attributing interference campaigns may become the new gold standard.
  • 5 Dec 2022
    • Al Qaeda
    • Cyber Security
    • Islamic State
    • Terrorism
    • Transnational Challenges

    Why outsourcing counter-terrorism online won’t work in future

    David Wells
    Policing online hate speech currently falls into a murky space shared between governments and big tech.
  • 14 Apr 2022
    • Defence & Security
    • Cyber Security
    • Australia's Defence Challenges

    Australian cyber: What’s “Redspice” for?

    Ben Scott
    Canberra should explain why Australia needs a larger offensive cyber capability and how it will be used.
  • 1 Apr 2022
    • Cyber Warfare
    • Cyber Security
    • Russia
    • Technology
    • Ukraine

    Ukraine: This isn’t the information war you were looking for

    Lesley Seebeck
    But watch a change in tempo for cyber operations as the on-the-ground military situation trends towards stalemate.
  • 22 Sep 2021
    • Cyber Security
    • Technology

    Digital authoritarianism not just a China problem

    Ausma Bernot
    Surveillance technologies are increasingly used to track and trace. New global regulations are needed, for all players.
  • 9 Aug 2021
    • Cyber Security
    • Digital Disruption

    Disinfopreneurs and infodemics

    Damien Spry
    Black Ops social influence campaigns are big business. Some difficult questions and a few bold ideas are on the table.
  • 28 Jun 2021
    • Cyber Security

    A zero-trust approach to cyber security

    David Morris
    Stronger cyber defences and global rules are better than one-eyed geopolitical rivalry.
  • 13 May 2021
    • Cyber Security
    • Asean
    • Australia
    • Indonesia
    • Technology

    Indonesia responds to the cyber dark side

    Greta Nabbs-Keller , RM Wibawanto Nugroho Widodo
    Australia will also benefit from practical bilateral cooperation to enhance Indonesia’s cyber security.
  • 20 Feb 2019
    • Cyber Warfare
    • Cyber Security
    • Australia
    • Technology

    Responding to cyber attacks: resilience and transparency is key

    Dirk van Graver
    Yes, Australia’s security was tested, but keeping it secret won’t help the public accept inevitable dangers to networks.
  • 13 Dec 2018
    • Terrorism
    • Cyber Security

    Disruptors disrupted: Australia’s new encryption law

    Dirk van Graver
    Law enforcement and technology companies are battling over the privacy implications of contentious new laws.
  • 4 Oct 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • Cyber Security

    A regional focus on cyber security

    Tobias Feakin
    Australia will work with international partners and the private sector to shut down cybercrime safe havens and improve our neighbours' cyber resilience.
  • 18 Jul 2017
    • Cyber Security
    • Australia

    Why Australia might be on the right encryption-cracking track

    David Wells
    Australia may prove to be the test case for a policy solution that has far reaching consequences for privacy, technological development and the future of law enforcement operations.
  • 25 Jan 2017
    • Cyber Security

    Democracies take up arms against cyberattacks

    Brendan Thomas-Noone
    It’s clear Russia conducted a significant and wide-ranging information operation targeting the US election, using a variety of cyber and traditional propaganda tools.
  • 8 Nov 2016
    • Cyber Security
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    How the US election is setting cyber-security precedents

    Brendan Thomas-Noone
    US officials are signaling that any cyber attack that impacts the election could result in a proportional response.
  • 2 Sep 2016
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Cyber Security

    Digital Asia links: Bangladesh internet drills, HK elections, Tencent HQ & more

    Danielle Cave
  • 15 Apr 2016
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Cyber Security

    Digital Asia links: WeChat & the UN, Xiaomi, North Korea, a Cyber Minister and more

    Danielle Cave
  • 10 Dec 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Cyber Security

    Australia needs calibrated deterrence against cyber attacks

    Ben FitzGerald
  • 7 Dec 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Cyber Security

    China's puzzling defence agreement with Australia

    Euan Graham
  • 16 Nov 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Cyber Security

    If it looks and acts like an oligopoly ... the power of Facebook and other online elite

    Fergus Hanson
  • 13 Nov 2015
    • Diplomacy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Cyber Security

    Digital Asia links: Cross-Strait trolling, Modi & Silicon Valley, WhatsApp government and more

    Danielle Cave
  • 20 Oct 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Cyber Security
    • Asia Pacific Security

    Waging war in peacetime: Cyber attacks and international norms

    Fergus Hanson
  • 16 Oct 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Cyber Security

    'The greatest transfer of wealth in history': Meeting the threat of economic cyber espionage

    Fergus Hanson
  • 14 Oct 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Cyber Security
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies

    China lays down the cyber law: Play in our space, play by our rules

  • 30 Sep 2015
    • Diplomacy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Cyber Security
    • Australian Perspective
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Regional relationships
    • Public Diplomacy And International Broadcasting
    • International Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • US-China

    Xi in America: China's poor grasp of public diplomacy on full display

    Kerry Brown
  • 25 Sep 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Diplomacy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Cyber Security

    Digital Asia links: Battle of the US State visits — President Xi Jinping vs. Prime Minister Modi

    Danielle Cave
  • 18 Sep 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Maritime Security
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Terrorism
    • Cyber Security
    • Emerging Threats
    • Asia Pacific Security

    Open-source intelligence links: Soldiers on Instagram, Russian submarines, Chinese drones, Syria and more

    Danielle Cave
  • 9 Sep 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Cyber Security
    • Emerging Threats
    • Australian Perspective
    • Intelligence and security
    • E-diplomacy

    To effectively counter ISIS online, we need a narrative

    John Gooding
  • 31 Jul 2015
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Cyber Security

    Digital Asia links: Instagram influencers, Hacking Team, encrypted FireChat, clickbait nationalism and more

    Danielle Cave
  • 19 Jun 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Cyber Security
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • Digital Disruption

    Liberalism, China and the internet

    Brendan Thomas-Noone
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