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Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre

Mr TEAGUE (Heysen) (14:50): My question is to the Minister for Industry and Skills. Can the minister update the house on the Marshall Liberal government's A3C, the Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre, and the appointment of its first chief executive officer?

The Hon. D.G. PISONI (Unley—Minister for Innovation and Skills) (14:50): I thank the member for Heysen for his question and his interest. Of course, being in commercial and civil law this is a new opportunity for him, as a barrister, if he ever moves on from his parliamentary duties.

Establishing the Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre, the Marshall government has invested $10 million to make South Australia the nation's cyber security leader. The Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre, or the A3C, is located at Lot Fourteen, which is soon becoming the largest innovation neighbourhood in the Southern Hemisphere.

Today, I am pleased to advise the house that the A3C board has appointed its inaugural CE, Mr Hai Tran. Mr Tran is an information security professional with more than 15 years' experience. He is well respected in the information technology industry for his ability to translate technical and security language into plain English, and I am looking forward to hearing him. He was most recently the chief information security officer for the Western Australian police force.

Prior to that, and with true entrepreneurial spirit, he co-founded a drone start-up called Coptercam. His automated drone control system, Aero Ranger, has become a cloud 'software as a service' platform, enabling real-time alerting, vehicle tracking, statistical and predictive data analytics used by governments to assist in reducing road trauma. Mr Tran's experience, his expertise and passion makes him ideal to lead our nation-leading cyber security centre and drive South Australia's cyber security industry.

The Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre features multiple collaboration zones, Australia's largest commercial test range and state-of-the-art facilities. It will be in operation from tomorrow, delivering cyber awareness, training and testing to businesses to increase capability and resilience. The first program to be delivered has been developed by aizoOn, and the University of Adelaide is taking registrations for the Cyber Security Incident Handling and Introduction to Digital Forensics course. I am looking forward to that becoming a regular acronym that we hear in the English language.

The course will give 20 IT professionals a solid understanding of practices, tools and techniques for an effective cyber incident response. Delivered through a combination of webinars and in-person seminars at Lot Fourteen, it has been tailored for Windows and Linux-based operating systems.

It is the first of many collaboration outcomes flowing from the A3C, which is mission-driven and not-for-profit. It is committed to using knowledge and expertise to make the cyberspace safer and more secure, and already a number of business organisations have become partners in the A3C:

the AustCyber SA Node;

the Department of Defence, Science and Technology;

BAE;

Symantec;

Dtex Systems;

the Office for Cyber Security;

Optus;

the University of Adelaide;

the University of South Australia;

Flinders University; and also

the large American MITRE Corporation.

The Marshall Liberal government is committed to building a strong cyber security ecosystem here in South Australia. It is already a high demand industry, with 20,000 new job openings expected in Australia over the coming years. Recent high profile cyber attacks on Australian businesses, governments and public databases illustrate just how critical it is to plan for unknown and sophisticated attacks. The A3C is part of the Marshall government's plan to come back stronger than before.

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