National Cybersecurity Exercise for Australia’s Water and Wastewater Sector

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) is inviting water and wastewater sectors organizations to participate in a national, two-day cybersecurity exercise in August 2021 aimed to strengthen cybersecurity resilience. The ACSC intends for the exercise to provide Australian participants with the opportunity to gain experience responding to a cyber incident scenario and evaluate areas for improvement. The ACSC has also identified the following goals for organizations and personnel to achieve from participating in the exercise:

• Strengthen and validate their cyber security response and recovery plans, including interoperability with other organization and jurisdictional arrangements.
• Practice technical, operational and strategic capabilities to respond to cyber incidents, including decision-making.
• Improve communications with their partners and the Australian public.
• Increase their knowledge of current cyber threats, potential consequences and actors targeting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of water sector organizations’ information and systems.
• Validate and inform training.
• Increase exercise management capabilities.

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For additional information and to register, contact ACSC’s National Exercise Program at as**********@*********ov.au. The registration deadline is Thursday, September 24, 2020.