Interview with Michelle Price, CEO of AustCyber, the Australian Cyber Security Growth Network. In the wake of a global pandemic, emerging at the time of the RSA Conference, San Francisco what has been the impact on the Australian $8.5 million project funding round issued in late 2019.

Michelle outlines how the Australian cyber security sector and parts of the AustCyber cohort face significant risk as a result of an economic downturn and also some that are responding to an uptake and have a major market and sovereign opportunity should Australia recover strong and fast.

Australia is also developing its 2020 Cyber Security Strategy and there remains potential for recovery phases for the strategy leading through to 2023.

Recorded online via Sydney and Canberra, 31 March 2020.

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