CYBER SECURITY Australia has established cyber security information sharing arrangements with a variety of strategic international partners across the public sector, private sector and research communities. These include bilateral agreements and memoranda of understanding, engagement between intelligence agencies, national cyber security centres, industry bodies, cyber security researchers, and participation in regional and international forums. Australia will continue to strengthen and expand our network of strategic information sharing partners, both providing and receiving information to enhance the cyber security posture of Australia and the cyber security of our international partners. The establishment of Joint Cyber Security Centres and the relocation of the ACSC to a new purpose-built facility will facilitate improved collaboration and more integrated partnerships. The ACSC through CERT Australia, Australia’s national CERT, works closely with industry partners to protect domestic critical infrastructure and other systems of national interest. To facilitate this, CERT Australia has a number of key operational level relationships with bilateral partners and multilateral forums. Australia’s international CERT relationships enable the trusted sharing of threat information and the joint development of tools and techniques to prevent, detect, analyse, respond, mitigate and recover from cyber incidents. This global CERT network supports the ACSC’s capability to respond to cyber incidents and assists domestic industry partners to take proactive cyber security measures. CERT Australia is committed to strengthening and expanding its network of CERT relationships in the Indo‑Pacific and more broadly to secure Australia’s critical infrastructure and other systems of national interest. Australia is committed to participating in coordinated global efforts to strengthen global CERT capacity – both sharing our expertise and learning from others. While the structure, mandates and constituencies of national CERTs may differ, they also have many commonalities. They are operationally focused and staffed by cyber security professionals with the technical expertise to respond to cyber incidents. A key role for a national CERT is to be a main operational point of contact during an international cyber incident, assisting in the conduct of coordinated incident response. International collaboration at this technical operationally focused level ensures the ACSC can perform incident response activities in Australia quickly and effectively. 25