The CI-ISAC Australia has been awarded $ 6.4 million subsidies from the Australian government to establish a dedicated information sharing and analysis center for national medical sector. This initiative encourages the government to prioritize the health department as the first person to receive the official funds in response to recent cyber attacks in Australian medical institutions such as health funds and hospitals.
With the Australian government's subsidies, CI-ISAC has created a new health cyber sharing network (HCSN). This will enable the Australian health department to be able to decompose information siros and exchange valuable cyber security threat information more quickly. Safe and confidential environment.
HCSN aims to equip the current and emerging cyber security threats to be more appropriate to provide and relieve health sector organizations. Since health and medical institutions participate in CI-ISAC's HCSN, cyber threats shared by these organizations support the overall improvement of cyber recovery in Australian health sector as a whole. Not only do you do it, but we also support important infrastructure in Australia. An organization that is wider and has mutual dependence in the whole health department.
“Health and medical sector holds a lot of personal and personal medical and financial information,” said David Sandell, CI-ISAC Australia. “We have already seen some famous data infringement in the health department. The new network will help members reduce cyber risks. Cyber attacks can greatly confuse important medical services. There is no room for this industry to be in danger. “
In 2023, the global healthcare industry reported the most expensive data infringement for the 13th consecutive year. This was an average cost of $ 10.93 million, almost twice as much as the financial industry, and an average cost of $ 5.9 million.
Currently, Australian health sectors include public hospitals, private hospitals (about 750 government hospitals and 650 private hospitals), health insurance providers, clinics (about 6,500 general practitioners clinics), and many health and medical care. It is composed of. -Relined third -party suppliers and vendors.
CI-ISAC provides cyber “Neighborhood Clock” to share related information on cyber threats to Australian medical providers, and at the same time benefits from the insight obtained from the whole other important infrasectors. I am.
Michelmac Guinness, a cyber security coordinator nationwide, states that Australia's ambition to become a world leader of cyber security by 2030 is an important contribution to the information sharing of health sector and acceleration subsidies in the analysis center. Ta.
“In recent years, healthcare -related cyber attacks have had a very realistic impact that can give millions of Australians. According to McGuinness, the increase in threat information is a cyber attack. It contributes to the construction of prevention and resilience, “Many people in the medical field know the philosophy that prevention is better than treatment. This is also applied to cyber security. It is a driving concept behind this subsidy.
She added that through CI-ISAC's work, strengthening strong industry cooperation and threats will increase the protection of Australian health data.
To start kicking HCSN, CI-ISAC has a 12-month free CI-ISAC membership to participate in this new cyber security information sharing network to qualified health and medical institutions and its suppliers. By providing, we are inviting to participate. By participating in the network, the new health members have accessed the depth and width of the current important infrastructure members of CI-ISAC, health closed sources, sector cyber threats information, and high cyber maturity. Provided from the organization.
As a non-profit organization, CI-ISAC promotes collaboration and two-way sharing of cyber threats in a reliable industry-led environment. With the addition of this funding, CI-ISAC incorporates education for health categories on ease of threats, cyber and insider threat training, attack surface monitoring, and improvement of cyber incident compatible plans (CIRPS).
Current members of CI-ISAC include governments, local governments, high education, and industries, including government, local government, higher education, energy, water, communication, financial services, data storage and processing, healthcare, transportation, etc. It reaches 11 important infrastructure. The agency has more than 100 entity members, including Google Cloud au, NBN, Aarnet, NEXTDC, DXC Technology, Industrial Science and Resource Department, Challenger Group Service, Transgred, Sunshine Coast Counsille, Sunshine Coast University. 。 。
“The value of all sectors will increase in exponential functions as many participants participate in a trusted network and share their own insights,” said Sandel. “Sharing of the cross sector will improve incident detection and response time, and will be able to act quickly on threats observed in other industries.”
This week, CI-ISAC has appointed David Gee as a new ambassador for CI-ISAC on January 30, 2025. GEE has a wide range of experiences in this role. Technology, cyber security, and more than 25 years of leadership in risk management have played an important role in changing IT infrastructure and strengthening digital security of major organizations around the world.
