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Hub Director comments on the patchy ethical hacking programs across government despite mandate

In an article recently published online at InnovationAus.com, Hub Director Lyria Bennett Moses provided her thoughts on the Vulnerability Disclosure Programs (VDPs) which have begun to come into effect following the mandate. 

Professor Bennett Moses suggested that VDPs are an easy way for departments and agencies to crowdsource cybersecurity improvements.

However, the article highlights a slow move to action on the part of a number of government agencies, who have yet to activate VDPs following this mandate at the time of writing.

VDPs are enacted so that organisations wherein organisations call for external security researchers or ethical hackers to confidentially submit their research findings concerning potential security vulnerabilities directly to the organisations themselves. 

With the recent impacts of breaches so fresh in the mind of many, Professor Bennett Moses' comments within the article, 'Ignorance is never a good idea in the context of security, especially when there are people who will go out, find them and report them when such programs exist, so why not take the benefit of that.” 

To learn more, read the full InnovationAus.com article here!

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