Australians should prepare for online services to go down unexpectedly as threats rise, cyber agency warns
The Australian Signals Directorate has warned that Australians should expect more frequent and unexpected outages of critical online services due to rising cyber threats. The agency urges businesses to adopt advanced AI tools to defend against increasingly sophisticated, AI-enabled cyberattacks.
Why it matters
As critical infrastructure becomes more digitized, the reliance on AI for both offense and defense is creating a volatile security landscape for national services.
ASD director general Abigail Bradshaw says ‘we must harness the technologies that are reshaping the threat environment’. ASD director general Abigail Bradshaw says ‘we must harness the technologies that are reshaping the threat environment’. AI (artificial intelligence) Australians should prepare for online services to go down unexpectedly as threats rise, cyber agency warns Australian Signals Directorate chief says advanced AI tools are needed to defend against ‘AI-enabled attackers’
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Prefer the Guardian on Google Australians should prepare for more basic and important online services to go offline unexpectedly, the nation’s signals intelligence agency has warned, urging that “system security must be prioritised over system availability”.
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) also says businesses and critical infrastructure must use cutting-edge AI models to defend against digital threats, raising alarm that artificial intelligence is enabling more dangerous threats than ever.
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