Insider threats pose ‘significant’ risk to Australia’s defence force, brief warns

Incoming brief to Albanese government cites risk of malicious employees accessing and inappropriately using systems

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Defence is at significant risk" from cyber insider threats, the department's incoming brief to the Albanese government says.

That could include malicious, disgruntled or merely duped employees accessing Defence's systems and threatening their security.

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