Can't disagree with that, but all Australian governments have to store their important data in Australia. All software in vulnerable but the big international players such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Infor, and Salesforce will always have some areas of risk, but have the spending power to minimise risk. The cloud providers that many of the software vendors are hosted by which includes Microsoft Azure and (Amazon) AWS are international players which spend more in these areas than we could ever do. Most Australian software vendors sit in one of the clouds with TechnologyOne in AWS, so even if they are local they are using multinational infrastructure based in Australia if they service government. That is because they are deemed minimum risk due to the amount they invest. It would be good to get Australian data centres in the mix, but to get the functionality of the hyper scalers would cost more than anyone can afford and from a cyber security viewpoint add little value. Our market is too small to warrant those costs.I would love Australian governments to move off Oracle and SAP, but that is unlikely as there is no Australian built software that caters for the functionality and scale required.
