00:01I think the best way to think of it really is as an accelerant, that AI has really just
00:06turbocharged the cyber threat, making hacking just simply more prevalent and more potent.
00:12The ASD, the Australian Signals Directorate, really points to the emergence of frontier
00:17AI models earlier this year as a significant trigger point. They're just exceptionally
00:23good at finding vulnerabilities online in software in particular. But they say that
00:28is both a problem and a solution used by cyber criminals or state actors. It is absolutely
00:35a problem. It simply makes the attacks they can launch far more significant and substantial.
00:41However, it's also a very useful defensive tool. It is, as I mentioned, good at finding
00:46vulnerabilities. So if those vulnerabilities can be found, they can be patched and secured.
00:51The ASD says cyber attacks were up 20% last year in its latest annual threat report. It
00:58has been around 1,500 cyber incidents across that 12 months. It expects that number to
01:02grow in the future. And the Director General, Abigail Burgess, has warned that Australians need
01:07to be prepared for disruptions in their everyday life as a result. That systems they know and
01:13are familiar with, everyday systems like perhaps your online banking, online government services,
01:18even things like baggage carousels at airports might stop spinning for a few hours as systems
01:23have to go down to protect themselves, to make sure they're secure, to ensure they aren't hit
01:28by a much more significant cyber attack. That's just something we're going to have to live with.
01:33Here's a bit of what she had to say on that issue.
01:34It is better to accommodate a service disruption because a system has been taken down to secure
01:44it than it is to persevere with system availability or to optimise system availability and to suffer
01:51the consequences of a compromise. The message from the government is kind of this urgent push
01:57to get big corporates but also government services themselves better adapted, better suited to that
02:03kind of emerging cyber threat landscape. Now taking some simple steps, including things like
02:08addressing legacy systems, that is old computers, old networks, some of which don't need to be
02:14plugged into the internet at all, are particularly vulnerable. So trying to get those removed or at
02:19least identify where they are, where those vulnerabilities are on existing networks. Another is adopting AI
02:25as a defensive tool for those tasked with cyber protection to actually kind of run towards AI rather than run
02:33away from it, to use it for its advantages better than they currently are.
02:38The defence minister Richard Marles says the actions of really big large corporates, think like the major banks for example,
02:45have largely been very good. They are working quite well with the ASD and other agencies and the impacts they're
02:52feeling from cyber attacks have somewhat diminished over the past couple of years.
02:55Where a lot of the problems lie is in small and medium sized businesses that of course perhaps don't have
03:01the same resources as large corporates to protect themselves. He says they seem to be being hit harder of late
03:07and that's where some action really needs to be taken. Here's a bit of what he had to say on
03:11this issue.
03:11For medium sized businesses it's really where the damage is being done. There the average cost of an attack has
03:20gone up by 45%, for them about $144,000 per incident, which represents a very significant jump.
03:27And so that's really where we need to be focusing in terms of what to do. And so what we're
03:32saying to people right now is if you've got old systems, you've got to get rid of them.
03:38The ASD says that the capabilities we've seen from AI models have really advanced at a remarkable pace over the
03:45past couple of years.
03:46We can only expect that to continue in future and that might mean perhaps a rocky few years ahead.
03:52The ASD says that thisERO sequence looks like this is a tremendous role andと思います that the MX-64 and the
03:52PSOops we can get needed.
03:53And they expect that it will be established in the future as a width.
03:54Now, let me see what it works now…
03:54Now, if the San Antonio comes in playing around, let me see what features may well be examined in future
03:54and how it might be an instrument of the coaster.
