Australia’s Cyber Security Watch Room Is Monitoring Threats <sup class="numerator">24</sup>⁄<sub class="denominator">7</sub>. Here’s What It’s Like Inside

For a ded­i­cat­ed few, keep­ing Australia safe online starts in the early hours of the morn­ing. That’s when the day shift starts for ana­lysts in the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s ²⁴⁄₇ watch room. Their Canberra head­quar­ters looks like any other non­de­script gov­ern­ment build­ing but, a few steps inside the lobby, a lat­tice made up of zeros and ones pro­vides a clue as to what’s going on inside.

Now more than ever, Australians are living their lives online. And every con­nec­tion for work, school or leisure cre­ates a new vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s unusu­al press con­fer­ence in June declar­ing that Australia was under sus­tained attack came after months of warn­ings that the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic was pro­vid­ing a valu­able oppor­tu­ni­ty for crim­i­nals…MORE

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