The ACT government has been advised to elevate its information protection game just after the territory’s auditor-normal elevated serious concerns with its policies and the data handling practices of general public servants.
The audit of the territory’s information protection tactics also reveals that the federal government is without having a federal government-wide information breach reaction plan, inspite of struggling a breach as a short while ago as late 2018.
The report, unveiled on Friday, is hugely significant of the ACT general public sector’s compliance with mandatory needs less than the government’s ICT protection coverage.
The coverage, which was refreshed very last August, demands that directorates and agencies comply on an annual foundation to guide whole-of-federal government information protection management.
But there is now not requirement for them to demonstrate their compliance with the ICT protection coverage, as opposed to the reporting less than the ACT