This article was originally published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) on 1 June 2018.
Foreword
In the past three years, barely a week has gone by without a report of a critical cyberattack on a business or government institution. We are constantly bombarded by revelations of new ransomware strains, new botnets executing denial of service attacks, and the rapidly expanding use of social media as a disinformation and propaganda platform.