Broken Ethernet cable is seen in front of binary code and words "cyber security" in this illustration taken March 8, 2022.
REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSYDNEY, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Australia will give cyber health checks for small businesses, increase cyber law enforcement funding and introduce mandatory reporting of ransomware attacks under a security overhaul announced on Wednesday after a spate of attacks.
"We cannot continue as we have," Cyber Security and Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil told reporters in Sydney.
Unveiling the seven-year strategy, O'Neil said that while large businesses received some of the biggest cyber attacks, they typically recovered, but attacks on small and medium-size businesses could be terminal.
"Minister O'Neil's Strategy establishes cyber security as a unifying nationwide endeavour," he added.
Persons:
Dado Ruvic, Clare O'Neil, O'Neil, Aidan Tudehope, O'Neil's, telco, Byron Kaye, Stephen Coates
Organizations:
REUTERS, Rights, Labor, Security, Home Affairs, Australian Cyber Security, U.S, Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Macquarie Technology, telco Optus, Singapore Telecommunications, Medibank, Thomson
Locations:
Australia, Sydney, Britain