No idea what he is saying, the term Cyber stock is a widely missused term, Megaport is not and never has been a cyber company. On the question of whether Netlinkz could have prevented these attacks, I dont think he understands either how the attacks have happened or how Net could stop them, Netlinkz is an SDWAN and most of these companies are running SDWANS already so having another will have no impact. They are all runnng these at 256Kbit AES encryption, same as Netlinkz is offering and are using one of the big brands either Cisco or Fortinet. In fact one of them is running this in the virtual mode, not using any equipment from the big brands, using an off the shelf white label hardware and the big companies software.
I cant see what Net offers that they dont offer, so how it could have any additional protection. I also dont think Net has NIST certification.
For people who want to understand this space
https://www.nist.gov/publications/advanced-encryption-standard-aes, this is the US standard which all companies wanting to sell in the US and other markets need to comply with. NIST standard compliance and certification is pretty much the western standard. The European Union Agency for Cyber Security ENISA also require NIST compliance and certification
https://www.enisa.europa.eu/topics/risk-management/current-risk/risk-management-inventory/rm-ra-methods/m_sp800_30.htmlIn Australia its slightly more complex, we use the essential 8 which is becoming mandatory and will require and audit of compliance every 5 years, this takes NIST as its base and was developed by ASD.
https://www.upguard.com/blog/australian-cybersecurity-frameworks , non compliance will result in fines for companies in the future.
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