4. The enablers: Confidence
4.4 Security priority and challenges
Security actions will be coordinated around this priority:
- Ensuring internet and telecommunications security that is consistent with promoting New Zealanders’ social and economic wellbeing and maintaining an effective network infrastructure.
Technological developments and greater interconnectivity expose ICT systems to a variety of new threats and vulnerabilities. They raise new issues for security and suggest a need for greater awareness and new security measures for all participants in our digital future.
Feedback from interested organisations and individuals on a discussion paper on ICT security and safety in 2006 highlighted the need to:
- improve New Zealand’s cyber-threat detection, reporting and response capabilities
- review New Zealand’s ICT security laws in light of developments in digital technology and international treaties, such as the European Convention on Cyber Crime
- raise ICT security and safety awareness in businesses and households.
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BACK TO BASICS ON THE NET //////
In April 2008, NetSafe will launch a new online animation campaign highlighting the importance of computer safety and security. Called Net Basics, it features the Jones family, who buy a new computer and find out that online, things are ‘not always as they appear’.
Net Basics pits three heroes – AntiVirus Authority (AVA), Anti Spyware Software (ASS) and the egotistical Software Update Programme (SUP) – against the evil Rapid Spawn, Pixelmania and Fiona in a battle for the Jones’s family computer.
Each animation introduces a computer security concept, such as the importance of firewalls and keeping security software up to date, and is followed by clear and concise advice on that concept.
The new Net Basics campaign includes nine short animations and a website explaining home computer security in simple terms to anyone with an internet connection.
The project is supported by CPF funding. |