The CEO of Australia’s largest telco Telstra has called on the federal government and the telecommunication industry to invest more in cyber defences to counter ransomware and other online attacks.
Andy Penn, who is also the chair of the ​​​​​ Cyber Security Industry Advisory Committee, said Australia needed a whole-of-nation approach to online threats due to the fast digital adoption speed of the country.
He also said that the digital space was about to make another significant technological breakthrough that would “enable a whole new world” by the end of this decade.
“A world with unprecedented processing power, storage capacity and access to unlimited knowledge from cloud and edge computing,” he said in an address to the National Press Club….