Subj : Australia is building its own top-secret cloud platform
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Date : Thu Dec 07 2023 10:30:06

Australia is building its own top-secret cloud platform

Date:
Thu, 07 Dec 2023 10:24:22 +0000

Description:
Australia calls for greater collaboration between the worlds biggest nations 
when it comes to sharing intelligence.

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Australia has confirmed it is actively exploring the construction of the 
nation's own top secret cloud platform to host intelligence data. 

In an official announcement, the country's s director-general of national 
intelligence, Andrew Shearer outlined his hope the initiative will transform 
the way intelligence agencies operate and enhance collaboration within the 
Five Eyes intelligence alliance, which comprises Australia, Canada, New 
Zealand, the UK, and the US. 

The UK and the US already have their own clouds in place, suggesting that 
Australia could learn a thing or two from their experiences. Australias 
intelligence cloud will link with other countries 

The countrys new cloud infrastructure will be designed with interoperability 
in mind so that it can function with existing intelligence clouds in other 
countries, allowing near-instantaneous sharing of data. It is hoped that this 
will enable the three nations, and others that launch similar programs later, 
to better coordinate their responses to global security concerns. 

At an event hosted by the Center for Strategic & International Studies in 
Washington, DC, Shearer noted, What that will do is obviously transform how 
we do our work as agencies but also it'll open up a shared collaborative 
space that will really, I think, reinforce this sense of working together as 
a genuine community and bringing all those different capabilities to bear on 
problems. 

The importance of shared standards was also highlighted when Shearer 
commented on artificial intelligence, suggesting that security analysts, in 
particular, have concerns about the limitations of AI, but that it could 
bring huge potential to intelligence gathering and analysis. 

Beyond the Five Eyes, Australia is also expanding its intelligence engagement 
with other nearby Southeast Asian nations and Japan. Shearer also alluded to 
deeper engagement with some European countries, whose priorities align with 
Australias a sentiment that has become clearer since Russias invasion of 
Ukraine. 

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