However, as with any ambitious project, REDSPICE is likely to...

However, as with any ambitious project, REDSPICE is likely to face some significant challenges. For example, doubling ASD’s size by adding almost 2,000 employees will likely prove difficult. As Australian Cyber Security Magazine observed in October 2021, the Australian cybersecurity industry is constrained by a severe shortage of workers. Indeed, a 2019 assessment by AustCyber, a non-profit supported by Australian Government funding, stated that there could be a shortage of 18,000 cybersecurity workers in Australia within the decade.Announcing a project called REDSPICE, Budget measures: budget paper no. 2: 2022–23 states that the ‘Government will provide $9.9 billion over 10 years to 2030–31 to the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) to deliver a Resilience, Effects, Defence, Space, Intelligence, Cyber and Enablers package (REDSPICE)’ (p.42).


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