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NZ govt asks industry for help to stem security breaches

posted onMay 19, 2013
by l33tdawg

IT security firms have been asked to put themselves up for membership of a special-purpose panel to provide security services across all of government.

The move is partly in response to a number of recent incidents involving privacy and security breaches at government agencies, commissioning agency the Department of Internal Affairs says. It sees the panel arrangement as a way of ensuring more consistency in security “skills and techniques” provided to agencies.

“The government has a declared objective to raise the standards of security and privacy practice and behaviour across the public sector,” DIA says in a request for proposal for the services. The envisaged panel of specialist information security and privacy suppliers will make it easier for agencies to “source high quality specialist assistance in an easy to access manner”, it says.

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