Abigail Bradshaw

Australian Signals Directorate that we were just talking about, we sometimes talk about kind of how brands and organizations can take on a really good personality in the way that they engage with people online.

And there was one late last week, and I don't know if you saw this, on LinkedIn, the Australian Signals Directorate was asked by a journalist... tagged them in this post saying, Australian Signals Directorate, not a usual request I know, but could someone please ask Abigail Bradshaw, who is the head of the directorate, where she got her dragonfly brooch? And the Australian Signals Directorate responded saying, ASD's acquisition methods remain classified.

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And next, a warning from Australia's top cyber spy.

Abigail Bradshaw, head of the Australian Signals Directorate, says frontier ai models have redefined the threat expect more disruptions like websites being taken offline for patching data breaches and service outages we've already seen a swarm of ai agents breach australian health data which some call the first autonomous hat of a government website The ASD's annual report shows a 20% jump in incidents it had to respond to.

It also revealed some wins, including cutting off a criminal network from 180,000 infected computers and destroying millions of stolen files before they could be sold.

It's also using AI itself to build defensive tools faster.

It says... with one case classed as an extensive incident of the second highest severity.

The Directorate's Director-General, Abigail Bradshaw, says service outages will likely become the new normal.

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This is all driven by AI.

ASD Director-General Abigail Bradshaw says advanced AI is helping malicious actors find software weaknesses and launch attacks faster on a much larger scale and with greater precision.

And the concern isn't just stolen data.

David Bradbury, Deputy Chairman of the financial regulator APRA, has warned an AI-amplified cyber attack by foreign actors could potentially start cleaning out people's superannuation accounts.

The ASD says this kind of disruption is going to become more common as it grapples with a growing volume of more potent AI-enabled cyber attacks.

Abigail Bradshaw is the ASD Director-General.

What is inevitable is that with each capability increase, we are likely to see more disruption.

And she says it is vital that as threats emerge, those operating critical systems take that step to bring them down and do the precautionary work, rather than expose them to the risk of a much greater cyber attack.

It urges governments and businesses to take steps to protect their networks, removing legacy systems and learning how to use AI to defend themselves.

Last month, it was revealed a swarm of open AI agents had hacked Australian government health data in a previously unknown breach.

Abigail Bradshaw says that incident has prompted a reworking of her agency's relationship with the major American AI companies.

We worked very quickly to establish incident response protocols that will effectively work like an early warning system between us and not just OpenAI.