The Hub is tasked with simplifying business and directing international investment and job growth across the State by building capability, through a collaborative approach between the public and private sector.
Our capability focus areas are:
Our capability focus areas are:
- Critical infrastructure
- Cyber Crime
- Big data
Critical Infrastructure
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Critical infrastructure exists in both physical and cyber systems across Australia. This infrastructure is vital for both the physical and economic security of our country, as well as our public health and safety.
Repeated and continued cyber attacks demonstrate that there is an ongoing threat to Australia's critical infrastructure and essential services - and therefore a need for the work undertaken by the Hub to bolster and strengthen WA’s cyber security capacity and competence. The Hub is focused on building the security and resilience of WA’s critical infrastructure through collaborative partnership between governments, industry and non-government partners. In line with recent changes to critical infrastructure laws, the 11 critical infrastructure sectors that the Hub focuses on are:
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Big Data
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Big data is most simply described as extremely large amounts of structured and unstructured data that requires powerful computational analysis techniques to reveal patterns, trends, and associations from datasets that are diverse, complex, and of a massive scale.
Of course with big data comes bigger risk... Big Data has opened up myriad new opportunities and possibilities to protect and prevent against cyber attacks. But it has also given cyber criminals previously unprecedented access to mass quantities of sensitive and personal data - along with the advanced technologies capable of wielding it. Organisations must tackle three key challenges in this area to be poised to adequately handle data at scale:
In line with the Hub’s key priorities, of partner, build, commercialise, our remit is to facilitate connections, build capability and help direct investment into big data startups, with the view to reducing the risks and increasing the capabilities of our state in this key growth area. |
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Cyber Crime
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Cyber crime is now a sophisticated transnational threat that impacts government, organisations and individuals alike.
In Australia, cyber crime can be both:
New technologies are opening up many new possibilities for conducting business and improving our lives. But they are also creating new avenues for criminals to commit new crimes, along with old crimes in new ways. The reality of this is that individuals, businesses and governments must be more prepared than ever to deal with the sophistication and impact of cybercrimes. The Hub’s key activities in this area are to:
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