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❓ A WA parliamentary question seeks information on cybersecurity spending and incidents within the Department for Child Protection and Family Support and the Department of Local Government and Communities. The response indicates potential security incidents were investigated but deemed not significant, and no illegal file access occurred.

AnsweredQoN 550Legislative Assembly

Asked

25 May 2017

Member

Mr Z.R.F. Kirkup

Portfolio

Child Protection; Women's Interests; Prevention of Family and Domestic Violence; Community Services

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In respect of the Minister’s portfolio responsibilities for departments, agencies or publicly owned corporations: (a) how much money was spent on anti-virus, network security, firewall or anti-malware software in the last financial year; (b) from 17 March 2017 to 19 May 2017, have there been any reported instances of: (i) Viruses: (A) if so, what systems were affected, for how long and was there any downtime (in hours) for each system; (ii) Malware: (A) if so, what systems were affected, for how long and was there any downtime (in hours) for each system; (iii) Cyber-attack: (A) if so, what systems were affected, for how long and was there any downtime (in hours) for each system; and (B) was this attack reported to the WA or Australian Federal Police? If not, why not; (iv) DNS attack: (A) if so, what systems or websites were affected, for how long and was there any downtime (in hours) for each system; and (B) was this attack reported to the WA or Australian Federal Police? If not, why not; (v) Infected websites: (A) if so, what websites were infected / hacked, for how long and was there any downtime (in hours) for each system; (c) From 17 March 2017 to 19 May 2017 have any network files been illegally accessed by external individuals or organisations: (i) if so, what files were illegally accessed and when; (ii) if so, were the WA Police or Australian Federal Police informed of this illegal access; and (iii) if not, why not?

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Answered

27 June 2017

Responded by

Minister for Child Protection; Women's Interests; Prevention of Family and Domestic Violence; Community Services

Response time

7 days

Department for Child Protection and Family Support
(a) Please refer to clause (a) of Legislative Assembly Question on Notice 549.
(b) (i – v) 329 potential instances were reported by users or identified by our security tools. No systems were affected. No reports were made to Western Australia Police or Australian Federal Police as there was no indication of significant or criminal activity.
(c) No.
(i – iii) Not applicable.
Department of Local Government and Communities
(a) Please refer to clause (a) of Legislative Assembly Question on Notice 549.
(b)(i) No
(A) Not applicable
(ii) No
(A) Not applicable
(iii) No
(A)-(B) Not applicable
(iv) No
(A)-(B) Not applicable
(v) No
(A) Not applicable
(c) No
(i)-(iii) Not applicable

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