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The Ukraine crisis and recent significant data breaches have proved to be test cases for Australia’s landmark new critical infrastructure regime. Recent cyber-attacks on Optus and Medibank have highlighted the devastating impact that a breach of a critical infrastructure provider can have. This was already recognised by the federal government last year, and earlier this year, with the passage of a series of legislation focusing on the security of critical infrastructure. These new rules expanded the sectors and businesses defined as critical infrastructure by the government, and placed significant new requirements on them, including around cybersecurity. Industries now included under critical infrastructure include electricity, communications, data storage and processing, financial services and markets, water, healthcare and medical, higher education and research, food and grocery, transport, space tech and the defence industry. The new laws require companies in these fields to maintain a critical infras
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