Victorian government on alert over social engineering campaign
Victorian government employees have been warned about what is believed to be a phone-based social engineering campaign targeting the state’s public sector, possibly ahead of a phishing campaign...
View ArticleBosch gets green light for automated vehicle tests
Bosch is the first recipient of a permit under Victoria’s new Automated Driving System (ADS) scheme.
View ArticleChief executive of Victoria’s Cenitex to depart
After more than seven years in the role, Cenitex chief executive Michael Vanderheide has decided to leave the Victorian government IT shared services agency.
View ArticleCenitex on track to complete ‘Program Fortify’ by end of year
Cenitex expects to complete by the end of the year its most ambitious technology overhaul since the Victorian government shared services agency was established in 2008.
View ArticleFines Victoria IT woes tax Ombudsman’s patience
The Victorian Ombudsman says her office has been flooded with complaints about Fines Victoria, after the agency launched on 31 December 2017 with only partial IT functionality.
View ArticleMelbourne set to host Labor’s AI centre
Melbourne has been selected as the host of a national AI lab, pledged by Labor if it wins the upcoming federal election.
View ArticleVictoria’s public health system ‘highly vulnerable’ to cyber attacks
Victoria’s public health system is “highly vulnerable” to the kind of cyber security incidents that had a devastating impact on the UK’s NHS in 2017, according to the state’s auditor-general.
View ArticleAudit finds security shortcomings at Victorian water utilities
Victorian water utilities still need to improve the security of their industrial control systems, a review of the arrangements at four of state’s water providers has concluded.
View ArticleVictoria’s transport department mulls using mobile device data for planning
Victoria’s Department of Transport could potentially employ mobile device data to help it analyse use of the state’s transport system.
View ArticleVictoria’s ‘big build’ agency creates CIO position
Victoria’s Major Transport Infrastructure Authority is recruiting its inaugural chief information officer.
View ArticleVictoria’s Cenitex launches secure cloud service for state govt agencies
Victorian shared services provider Cenitex has unveiled a new offering based on Microsoft’s Azure that will allow state government agencies to host data classified at the Protected level in the cloud...
View ArticleVictorian government plans to counter cyber emergencies
Every 45 seconds there is an attempted compromise of a Victorian government network, according to John O’Driscoll, the state government’s chief information security officer (CISO).
View ArticlePublic Transport Victoria breached privacy rules with Myki data release
Public Transport Victoria (PTV), now part of the state’s Department of Transport, breached the law when it released supposedly de-identified data relating to the use of Melbourne’s Myki card.
View ArticleCenitex paid price for years of uncertainty
A three-year period of uncertainty for Victorian shared ICT agency Cenitex between 2011 and 2014 prevented it to make future plans, resulting in no investment in technology during the period.
View ArticleVic Health & Human Services to ditch unsupported finance system for Oracle’s...
Victoria’s Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) is gearing up for a mega-project to shift its finance system to the cloud.
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