The Department of Health and Aged Care has actually selected Services Australia’s David Lang as its brand-new cyber safety and security leader.
Lang will certainly currently handle the title of aide secretary, cyber safety and security branch and CISO, under the management of primary electronic and details policeman Fay Flevaras.
He changes Monique Morgan, that has actually been advertised to aide secretary and company systems branch lead.
In a declaration to iTnews, the division claimed Lang will certainly proceed turning out a continuous cyber safety and security uplift program.
“The department has a focus on implementing best practice cyber security practices and has an in-flight cyber security uplift program,” a representative claimed.
“The CISO role supports this continued uplift.”
Lang formerly functioned as Services Australia’s nationwide supervisor for cyber safety and security.
He additionally invested ten years at the Australian Electoral Commission, serving as aide commissioner and CIO amongst his functions there.
The Department of Health and Aged Care has actually been a crucial recipient of government spending plan funds for “ICT infrastructure” in successive years, with a $312 million allotment in Budget 2022, complied with by $214.5 million in Budget 2023 and $174.5 million in Budget 2024, adhering to a royal compensation right into the market.
Last month, it was exposed that Accenture would certainly be releasing service providers right into a large electronic improvement program underway in aged treatment.
The division has actually handed $289 million to Accenture for a “workforce uplift supporting the temporary demands of reform initiatives while ensuring the ongoing capability and capacity to maintain the future aged care digital ecosystem”.
