Australia: Cybersecurity

As wearable AI technology becomes more prevalent, employers face critical decisions about whether to ban smart glasses in the workplace. This analysis explores the privacy, cybersecurity, and workplace surveillance risks associated with AI-enabled eyewear, while examining the legal framework for regulating their use. Two important exceptions—disability accommodations and workplace safety—complicate what might otherwise be a straightforward prohibition.

Local government resilience depends on understanding how financial sustainability, cyber security, operational capability and asset management interact during disruption. This assessment framework helps councils identify vulnerabilities across these interconnected domains and strengthen their ability to maintain essential services when conditions change unexpectedly.

Welcome to Cross Examining Cyber, a podcast brought to you by Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. In this series, we speak with leading cyber practitioners, business leaders and policymakers about the issues shaping...

APRA’s most recent accountability enforcement action against Bendigo and Adelaide Bank (BAB) for failures to address known cyber weaknesses within its group demonstrates how seriously it takes cyber risk management.

In this episode, we are joined by Catherine Brenner and John Mullen, two of our most distinguished Chairs. We talk about good governance, what it takes to be a good chair during a crisis, whether we need deep cyber expertise on the board and first-hand experience in cyber incident response.

Mere days after an AI firm’s model hacked into Hugging Face, a separate AI company has now revealed that three of its models have hacked into three external companies during testing.

International cybersecurity authorities have released comprehensive guidance on the secure deployment of agentic AI systems, which autonomously reason, plan and execute actions with limited human intervention. The guide addresses critical security risks including inherited LLM vulnerabilities, expanded attack surfaces, and reduced accountability, while recommending organizations embed security controls from the outset and adopt a progressive deployment approach starting with lower-risk tasks.

Australia has introduced a prioritisation framework for data centre and AI compute projects through Commonwealth Expectations that will influence regulatory approvals and project sequencing.

Welcome to Cross Examining Cyber, a podcast brought to you by Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. In this podcast series, we speak to our business leaders about all things cyber, including the legal, governance, technical, regulatory and policy developments that impact corporates around the world.