Thursday 19 November 2015

‘Ethical hackers’ hired to test Government’s online security, Digital Transformation Office chief Paul Shetler says

So-called “ethical hackers” are being hired by the Federal Government to help test the security of new online systems amid continuing questions about the safety of citizens’ information.

The Digital Transformation Office (DTO) is tasked with making government services online more user-friendly but it is also turning its attention to “identity assurance”.

“We want to have a way of verifying that people are who they say they are when they deal with governments and we’ve been asked to do that,” DTO chief executive Paul Shetler told the ABC.

The Federal Opposition has been calling for a Federal Police investigation into identity theft and fraud, pointing to reported problems with Medicare claims, the MyGov portal and the Australian Tax Office. For the full article click here 



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