Australian federal infosec director to step down
The director of the Federal Government's information security and foreign intelligence authority Ian McKenzie will wrap up a six year career leading the department when he retires in December.
McKenzie was appointed the director of the Australian Signals Directorate (until this May named the Defence Signals Directorate) in May 2007. In the four years prior he worked as the head of the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation.
The department said MrKenzie was retiring to pursue a number of private activites. It is currently on the hunt for a replacement director. The ASD is located within the Department of Defence and delivers intelligence and security advice to the Australian Government. McKenzie scarcely fronted the media. In one of his rare public speeches in 2010, he spoke of the threat of cybercrime and how the security landscape had changed since the Directorate was established in 1947.
