Blog
Welcome to the CI-ISAC blog, your source for cutting-edge insights and thought leadership in the realm of cyber security. Here, we delve into the complexities of the digital landscape, offering expert analysis, innovative strategies, and valuable discussions aimed at fortifying our collective defences against cyber threats.
-
Planning for Cyber Risk in Uncertainty: How Cross-Sector Threat Visibility Shapes Executive Decisions
Executive teams across Australia’s critical infrastructure sectors are expected to make decisions about cyber risk, investment, and capability in a landscape that rarely feels settled. Threat activity evolves quickly, technology dependencies continue to deepen, and expectations around resilience and accountability are increasing. Yet many of these decisions are still made with a constrained view of
-
Seeing the Pattern Before the Incident: Why Threats Rarely Stay in One Sector
Cyber incidents affecting critical infrastructure are often described as discrete events. An issue emerges in one organisation, is investigated locally, and addressed within that environment. When similar activity surfaces elsewhere soon after, it is frequently treated as unrelated. In practice, threat activity often appears across multiple domains rather than remaining confined to a single organisation
-
The Power of Collective Defence: Turning Shared Intelligence into National Cyber Resilience
Australia’s essential services depend on more than technology; they depend on trust, collaboration, and shared awareness. As cyber threats grow more connected, so too must our defences. Collective defence brings operators together across sectors, enabling the secure exchange of actionable intelligence that turns isolated incidents into coordinated responses. This blog explores how shared insight strengthens…
-
From Alerts to Action: How Actionable Intelligence Builds Cyber Resilience Across Critical Infrastructure
Across Australia’s essential services, cyber teams face an overwhelming volume of alerts, advisories, and data feeds. Yet information alone doesn’t create resilience. Without context, knowing what’s relevant, why it matters, and how to respond, operators are left reacting instead of preventing. This article explores the growing importance of actionable intelligence: a disciplined approach to transforming…
-
There’s one way you can make your super more secure.
As originally published in The Sydney Morning Herald April 12, 2025 Superannuation accounts are incredibly attractive targets for hackers and scammers, with several trillion dollars in retirement savings sitting around behind the locks of a few different funds. Mature accounts even more so because they allow withdrawals and are regularly accessed by an older generation
-
The password security tips businesses should use to stop hackers in their tracks
As originally published in inside small business, on March 25, 2025 David Sandell is the CEO of CI-ISAC, a not-for-profit organisation providing cyber threat intelligence (CTI) sharing services. In this piece, David shares 14 password tips to protect your business from cyber attacks. Cybercrime is on the rise across Australia, and it’s not just large corporations
#strongertogether
CI-ISAC leverages membership fees to promote the collective uplift of all critical infrastructure defences, and as such members of all tiers gain access to the same core services and capabilities
