About AISA
Australian Information Security Association
The Australian Information Security Association (AISA) works to advance the digital security and safety of Australian and Australia.
As the nationally recognised peak body for cyber security professionals, AISA continually develops and supports the workforce that underpins the nation's cyber security. With a membership of more than 12,500 people, AISA also provides a voice in national discussions about what is needed in policy and law to most effectively defend Australians from cyberattacks, including ways to improve digital privacy.
We view digital security and safety as a 'public good,' like other public goods such as clean air and reliable water supply. Ensuring all members of the Australian community can enjoy this public good drives our many activities. These include:
Practical training as well as opportunities for specialist knowledge-sharing among our membership at our conferences and SecDays in order to ensure a workforce that is up to date in a fast-moving field
Public outreach, such as public education campaigns for young people at festivals in schools
Free online tools to help Australians and their organisations
Research to facilitate best practice, such as the studying the impact of new or changing technologies on Australian cyber security and the needs of those who both work in and employ staff in cyber security to do their jobs well
Advocacy and information on ways to improve Australia's cyber security and digital privacy, to governments as well as industries
Mentoring in order to help small to medium sized organisations with fewer resources than large corporations to 'skill-up' in cyber security while also addressing the national skills shortage in this field
Specialist news access for our members so they can follow and act on data breaches and other important cyber security events
Innovative forums to share learning, knowledge, skills, experience, ideas and innovation in the information security and privacy field
Help to organisations to reduce identity theft, financial crimes, fraud, unauthorised access to information systems and the data they contain
AISA provides support for all domains in information security and privacy with a particular focus on sharing expertise from the field at meetings, focus groups and networking opportunities around Australia. We champion the development of a robust information security sector by building the capacity of professionals to help the entire Australian community including the Australian public, businesses and governments.
SecureGov
secureGOV is AISA's annual journal of record for government which chronicles the changing threat climate that faces Australia's government agencies at the federal, state and local government levels.
Each edition of this exciting annual publication features a range of content from current MPs, state-based CISOs, state/federal based parliament security groups, and industry thought leaders. secureGOV will include highlights of specific trends in cyber security defence and offence, opinion pieces from cyber security analysts and leaders, and case studies highlighting government data security best practice.
secureGOV is distributed to leading MPs, policymakers, IT decision makers and cyber security strategists across the Australian government, ensuring that its content reaches the people most affected by changing cyber security trends - and those best-positioned to act on them.
