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❓ A WA parliamentary question on notice inquires about cybersecurity spending and incidents across various government departments and agencies, including Gold Corporation, Lotterywest, Premier and Cabinet, Public Sector Commission, Salaries and Allowances Tribunal, and State Development, Jobs and Trade. The responses indicate no significant breaches or illegal file access during the specified period, with some departments referencing a previous question for expenditure details.

AnsweredQoN 565Legislative Assembly

Asked

25 May 2017

Member

Mr Z.R.F. Kirkup

Portfolio

Premier; Minister for Public Sector Management; State Development, Jobs and Trade; Federal-State Relations

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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

Response time

7 days

On behalf of Gold Corporation and its subsidiaries:
(a)        “Please refer to clause a) of Legislative Assembly Question on Notice 549”
(b)   (i)-(v)         No
(c)    (i)-(ii)         No
(iii) Access control, monitoring and alerting systems are in place to secure access to data to authorised personnel and data.
Lotterywest
(a)        “Please refer to clause a) of Legislative Assembly Question on Notice 549”
(b) (i)-(v)         No
(c)                    No
Premier and Cabinet
(a)        Please refer to clause a) of Legislative Assembly Question on Notice 549
(b)(i)-(v)          No
(c)                    No
(i)-(iii)              Not Applicable
Public Sector Commission
(b) (i)-(v)         No
(c)                    No
(i)-(iii)              Not Applicable
Salaries and Allowances Tribunal
(a)        Please refer to clause a) of Legislative Assembly Question on Notice 549
(b) (i)-(v)         No
(c)                    No
(i)-(iii)              Not Applicable
State Development, Jobs and Trade
(a)        Please refer to clause a) of Legislative Assembly Question on Notice 549
(b) (i)-(v)         All cyber-attack and malware instances were successfully detected and eliminated. No DMP/DSD systems were infected or affected.
(c) (i)-(iii)         No

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