Oceania Cyber Security Centre

31/01/2025

The Directors and Staff of the Oceania Cyber Security Centre (OCSC) express our deepest condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of the late Georgina Kiele.

We will always remember Georgina as a lively and genuinely wonderful person who not only had an immense sense of pride for her country but always wanted to do more for her industry and the Pacific as a whole. She was incredibly generous with her time, always wanting to help and share her knowledge and experience with others whilst constantly acquiring new skills and ideas to better herself and her team. Georgina was incredibly well regarded by her peers and the broader Pacific cyber community, and she will be missed terribly.

Our thoughts are to all who knew Georgina at this terrible time.

ICT Minister Offers Condolence to the Family of Late Ms Georgina Kiele

"On behalf of the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), including the Department of ICT, the Board and Management of the National ICT Authority (NICTA), and the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), I extend my deepest condolences to the family of the late Ms. Georgina Kiele, whose passing on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, marks an immeasurable loss to our nation."

"Ms Kiele is an unparalleled character in the ICT space and a dedicated public servant over her 11 years of service in DICT."

17/09/2024

Last week, OCSC was pleased to be represented at the P4C 2024 Intersessional in Rarotonga.

On Friday, Cameron Boardman presented the findings and outcomes from the P4C 2023 Outcomes Report, and participated in discussions around progress against the recommendations from the Report along with updates from the Partners in the Blue Pacific, who were also in attendance.

The wider Intersessional meeting included panels exploring the threat environment in the Pacific and an open session to discuss the structure and agenda for a future 2025 P4C.

OCSC was especially pleased to receive widespread acknowledgement and endorsement for the 2023 P4C Outcomes Report from the Pacific community. We look forward to continuing to strengthen our relationships in the region, and to working with the community in the future to realise their cyber capacity building ambitions.

The full P4C 2023 Outcomes Report can be accessed on the OCSC website.

🔗: https://ocsc.com.au/other-capacity-initiatives/

20/08/2024

We're reframing the way you think about cyber capacity building💡

Through OCSC's work in the Pacific, one theme has emerged: cyber capacity building (CCB) is not a set and forget exercise. Instead, CCB efforts must be as dynamic as the threats they face.

Across the CCB community, outputs and activities can be seen as siloed projects that are confined to the organisation or implementor that they're conducted by. However, in order to maximise the impact of CCB interventions, they must be considered as part of a wider process in a country's journey to cyber maturity.

Introducing the Cyber Capacity Building Lifecycle.

The Lifecycle reframes CCB activities as interrelated parts of the path to improved cyber resilience. Thiis view is aimed at improving the outcomes of these activities, maximising resources and improving efficiencies.

To read more about this, head to the OCSC blog:

🔗https://bit.ly/3WUUzoJ

18/06/2024

Across the cyber capacity building (CCB) landscape, practitioners are in agreement that "one size does not fit all".

How then, can CCB programs help host countries improve their cyber resilience, whilst taking into account their unique needs and priorities?

The OCSC Cybersecurity Roadmap provides a tailored, streamlined pathway toward cyber maturity for recipient countries based on their national contexts. Furthermore, it can provide an evidence base for CCB donor programs, reducing waste and inefficiencies and enabling better prioritisation of funding.

Learn more about the OCSC Cybersecurity Roadmap here: https://bit.ly/4c7jxYm

14/03/2024

A crucial aspect of a country's is understanding what works, what doesn’t work and why.

At OCSC, we conduct reviews at the invitation of host nations using the Cybersecurity Maturity Model for Nations ( ), which is a globally renowned model for assessing and benchmarking a country's cyber maturity.

Developed by the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC) at the University of Oxford, the CMM Review helps host nations understand and benchmark where they stand now on their maturity journey and identify their own priorities for next steps, while providing specific recommendations for national policies, strategies, and activities to strengthening capacity and resilience.

The work we do helps nations across the Indo-Pacific understand what needs to be done on their cyber journey and set their priorities moving forward.

For more information, visit our website: https://bit.ly/3vh9mju

07/03/2024

📣OCSC is please to share an article released by our Research and Capacity Team through the Development Policy Centre.

'A More Cyber-Resilient Pacific' explores the impact of the inaugural P4C and subsequent , and what impact they can have in the Pacific region.

OCSC thanks the Development Policy Centre for this collaboration, and congratulates James Boorman and Joe Fulwood for their excellent work.

Read the OCSC full update here: https://bit.ly/4c7TOiD
The full article can be found here: https://devpolicy.org/a-more-cyber-resilient-pacific/

07/03/2024

Digital development has shrunk space and time, and nowhere is this more evident than in the Pacific, say James Boorman and Joe Fulwood.

06/03/2024

The Outcomes Report presents the key takeaway from the 2023 P4C and establishes a clear pathway to building a more cyber resilient Pacific.

The report outlines 5 key themes that emerged from the conference discussions:

🌏 Leadership
Ensuring efforts should be led by the Pacific, for the Pacific, and in the Pacific way. Building on the leadership already provided by the Pacific Islands Forum on highlighting cyber as a priority, P4C delegates identified future programs being codesigned and Pacific-led as a key priority.

💡 Contextualised Capacity Building
programs should be designed with the understanding that one size does not fit all and should be tailored to each country's specific circumstances. Tailoring and targeting of programs, expertise, and other resources were identified by delegates as crucial in improving efficiencies and uplift across CCB efforts.

🌐 Improved Pacific Cyber Ecosystem
Delegates called for improved coordination between all stakeholders in the Pacific ecosystem when delivering CCB programs. Despite good will on all sides, a lack of collaboration and alignment often results in a crowded, confusing, and duplicative landscape of efforts.

♻️ Embedded
Despite short-term efforts providing some value, delegates identified key challenges that they presented, such as providing band-aid solutions, creating dependency, and failing to provide tangible uplift or built capacity. Instead, Pacific delegates called for a move away from tick-the-box short-termism and toward long-term initiatives that incorporate short-term actions, and aim to build resilience and maturity, and feed into a broader regional framework.

🤝 Inclusive
When designing future CCB programs, stakeholders should ensure that they do not exacerbate and actively address existing dynamics of inequality, such as socio-economic, gender, disability, and geographic divisions. This can best be understood in the Pacific way of "no one left behind".

To read further about these 5 Key Themes, and explore the accompanying recommendations for further consideration, please read the P4C Outcomes Report linked below.

🔗: https://bit.ly/42CUZlX

04/03/2024

Australia’s Oceania Cyber Security Centre (OCSC) last week conducted Fiji’s cyber readiness review in preparation for the upcoming national cybersecurity strategy. The week-long review was conducted under the globally-recognised Cybersecurity Capacity Maturity Model for Nations (CMM). OCSC condu...