The Albanese Government is delivering on its commitment to secure Australia's cyber environment and protect our critical infrastructure, with the declaration of an additional 13 Systems of National Significance.
This brings the total number of Systems of National Significance to over 220 assets across the energy, communications, transport, financial services and markets, food and grocery and data storage or processing sectors, all declared by this Government.
This is just one of the ways that our government is working constructively with business to protect our national security.
Being declared a System of National Significance means the Australian Government may apply a comprehensive set of enhanced cyber security obligations on owners and operators in relation to their assets, to better protect the Australian economy and all Australians.
These obligations include developing incident response plans to prepare for a cyber incident, undertaking cyber security exercises to build cyber preparedness and carrying out assessments to identify and fix vulnerabilities.
They also require owners and operators to provide system information to the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) in order to develop and maintain a near-real time threat picture.
Systems of National Significance are privately declared under section 52B of the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018.
The list of Systems of National Significance is not released publicly to protect our national security.
Quotes attributable to Minister for Home Affairs and Cyber Security, Tony Burke MP
"Cyber incidents are one of the fastest growing threats to our country - and that means it's more important than ever to protect the critical infrastructure that Australians rely on every day.
"We are using all the tools at our disposal to improve our cyber security and the protection of our critical infrastructure, and listing Systems of National Significance is a part of that effort.
"I want to thank the owners and operators of Systems of National Significance for joining us as we uplift the cyber security of Australia's critical infrastructure, making us amongst the most cyber secure nations in the world."
