Cyber alerts and advisories
CERT Australia makes some cyber security alerts and advisories available via this webpage. These alerts and advisories contain up-to-date information on cyber threats and software vulnerabilities, and steps that can be taken to better secure computer systems.
These alerts and advisories are at no cost and may be of interest to all Australians and Australian businesses.
Industry news
August 2010
- Microsoft out-of-band patch
- Vx Works
- Mariposa
Strategies to mitigate targeted electronic intrusions
CERT Australia and the Cyber Security Operations Centre in the Defence Signals Directorate have developed a matrix of 35 strategies, ranked by effectiveness, that may assist your organisation better detect and prevent targeted electronic intrusions.
At least 70 per cent of the targeted cyber intrusions that the Defence Signals Directorate responded to in 2009 could have been prevented if organisations had implemented the first four mitigation strategies listed in this paper.
- Targeted Cyber Intrusions - Mitigation Strategies Matrix [PDF 305KB]
- Targeted Cyber Intrusions - Mitigation Strategies Matrix – Introduction [PDF 157KB]
If you have any difficulty accessing the documents on this page, please contact info@cert.gov.au.