Industry-development organisation AustCyber has launched AUCyberscape, a platform that catalogues cyber companies in Australia and their products.
AUCyberscape – created by AustCyber with the support of Insurance Australia Group (IAG), seven state and territory governments, and several private firms – was designed as a central source of information about Australian-built cybersecurity solutions.
Entries are geographically tied, enabling searches by region and cybersecurity specialty through the AUCybermap, where software vendors such as Mailguard and Haventec engage with security consultancies such as Ignite Systems and CBIT Digital Forensics Services.
The platform is only available to domestic innovators, who had listed 2,443 individual solutions on its debut. It is free for users and service providers as a living catalogue of a $5.6 billion industry that has become “larger, more diverse, and sophisticated” in recent years.
“We've aligned AUCyberscape to the digital language that is now being used internationally,” said AustCyber chief executive officer Michelle Price during the project announcement last year, as reported by Information Age.
“It is really important to be able to align market developments, and those export pathways for Australian capability, into global markets that are using consistent language and categorisation around cybersecurity capability.
“Making sure we are talking the same language as our international counterparts [makes] that trade equation smoother but also helps buyers and investors have a much stronger idea and understanding around what [Australia's] capabilities actually are.”
IAG information and analytics director Krishna Nageshwaran commented last year: “Cyber is one of the most prevalent threats that our businesses face today and needs to be proactively addressed … We're really keen to make this project a success because we believe that increases awareness and, most importantly, business resilience across our client base.”
Nearly 1,900 Australian cybersecurity specialists and 128 companies have already registered for the portal.
