Cybersecurity

CAUDIT provide a range of services to help members adopt appropriate risk profiles and counter ever-increasing cybersecurity threats, and, in doing so, helps safeguard the intellectual property and reputation of Australasia’s universities. CAUDIT performs a valuable coordinating and advisory role, working together in a trusted community, delivering economies of scale and helping mature sector cybersecurity capabilities - people, processes, technology.

CAUDIT leads the Australasian Higher Education Cybersecurity Service (AHECS) (opens in new tab), a higher education sector collective that leverages the capabilities and expertise of its partner entities to strengthen the overall cybersecurity posture of the sector. AHECS also acts as a central body, representing the sector on cybersecurity issues.

AHECS’s purpose is aligned to the principles of being stronger together and ‘all boats lift on a rising tide’. Each partner brings unique strengths and services to AHECS, to form a collective developed specifically for the sector by the sector which addresses capability gaps and helps defend the sector from continuously evolving cybersecurity threats.

This checklist (opens in new tab)provides an overview of the CAUDIT and AHECS services available for sector cybersecurity professionals.

In addition to CAUDIT, AHECS partners include AAF (opens in new tab) (Australian Access Federation authentication and identity verification), AARNet (opens in new tab) (Australia’s national research and education network and provider of a portfolio of cyber security services), AUSCERT (opens in new tab) (Australia’s Cybersecurity Emergency Response Team), and REANNZ (opens in new tab) (New Zealand’s national research and education network and Cybersecurity Emergency Response Team).

Our active, and engaged Cybersecurity Community is comprised of over 700 sector specific cybersecurity professionals who collaborate on strategic and functional priorities, including trends, risks, threats, impacts, controls, and good practices.

CAUDIT members have access to discounted rates for Cybermindz wellbeing courses which are delivered using the Integrative Restoration (iRest) protocol. iRest is an effective, safe, trauma-aware, evidence-based program which effectively builds mental and emotional resilience, and alleviates anxiety, insomnia, chronic pain, depression, post-traumatic- stress (PTSD), and chemical dependency.