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Australian 'critical infrastructure' bill could create new vulnerabilities, says tech industry

By Laurel Henning ( July 8, 2021, 03:49 GMT | Insight) -- Australia’s planned requirements for how operators of critical infrastructure including banks and data storage providers should respond to cyber attacks could create an undue burden on industry and a flood of alerts to government, a parliament committee has heard. In an online hearing of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security today, executives from Amazon Web Services, Atlassian, Google and Microsoft said the draft measures could set a deeply problematic precedent for government intervention in networks.Australia’s planned requirements for how operators of critical infrastructure including banks and data storage providers should respond to cyber attacks could create an undue burden on industry and a flood of alerts to government, a parliament committee has heard....

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