Industry engagement
A key function of CERT Australia is to develop close working relationships with critical infrastructure organisations and businesses that operate systems that are important to Australia’s national interest. In this way, CERT Australia is able to help ensure that important services that all Australians rely on in their daily lives are secure and resilient. These organisations previously interacted with GovCERT.au. All GovCERT.au functions and services have now been incorporated into CERT Australia, and will continue as part of CERT Australia’s core functions.
Through these engagements, CERT Australia provides industry targeted briefings to owners and operators of critical infrastructure and other systems of national interest. CERT Australia also issues advisories and alerts on specific, sophisticated and targeted electronic attacks and system software and hardware vulnerabilities to these organisations. This assists them in protecting their information and communication technology networks and systems.
In addition, CERT Australia has established three sector-specific information exchanges with the banking and finance, control systems and telecommunications sectors. These information exchanges enable government and business to share sensitive cyber-security technical information and experiences in a highly trusted environment. This enhances the ability of both government and business to understand Australia’s cyber-security threat environment.
CERT Australia continues to build strong relationships with Australian internet service providers (ISP), major corporations, anti-virus researchers and information and communications technology security vendors. This assists CERT Australia to provide the Australian community with relevant and timely information on cyber security issues.
We also work closely with Australian and overseas government agencies to facilitate access to unique information and communication technology security information.