Aussie electoral systems get 24x7 monitoring for 2019 election

Australia’s electoral systems will be actively monitored around the clock by a new security operations centre during the upcoming federal election.

The Australian Electoral Commission has put out the call for vendors capable of providing “short-term, event based security monitoring” of its internal systems in a bid to protect against unauthorised interference.

The centre would be used to detect “common or generic system or network compromises or compromise attempts against the AEC’ systems” in the lead up to, during and following the election. It will also spot “defined specific compromise attempts against electoral systems”, according to a brief posted on the digital marketplace late last month.